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Targeted Content Standards and Benchmarks
Oregon State Standards
Social Science: Grade 5: Geography
- Understand why places and regions are important to human identity and serve as symbols to unify or fragment society.
- Identify patterns of migration and cultural integration in the United States.
Social Science: Grade 5: Analysis
- Examine an event, issue, or problem through inquiry or research.
- Gather, use, and document information from multiple sources (such as print, electronic, and human).
Targeted National Content Standards
Music Standards
- Sing alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
- Listen to, analyze, and describe music.
- Evaluate music and music performances.
- Understand relationships among music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.
- Understand music in relation to history and culture.
National Educational Technology Standards (NETS)
Performance Indicators for Technology Literate Students (grades 3-5)
Prior to completion of grade 5, students will:
- Use technology tools (such as multimedia authoring, presentation, Web tools, digital cameras, and scanners) for individual and collaborative writing, communication, and publishing activities to create knowledge products for audiences inside and outside the classroom.
- Determine which technology is useful and select the appropriate tool(s) and technology resources to address a variety of tasks and problems.
- Use technology resources (such as calculators, data collection probes, videos, and educational software) for problem solving, self-directed learning, and extended learning activities.
Student Objectives
Students will be able to:
- Examine the role of music in westward migration
Music
- Research songs and musical instruments of the period
- Perform songs and add new lyrics in student performances
- Explain how music inspires and influences people today
Social Studies
- Identify patterns of migration and cultural integration
- Formulate questions
- Collect and organize information from multiple sources
- Classify information
Process Skills
- Work cooperatively in small groups
- Document observations in a journal or learning log
- Ask questions, gather research, organize information, prepare data, and present findings in writing
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