Appendix on Implementing District Standards
1st group of lessons: My curriculum unit will address the following Social Studies Pennsylvania State Standards on U.S. History and geography of places. Students will collect U.S. coins, complete research, write reports, and make presentations about quarters.
- 7.1.6.B. Describe and locate places and regions. Students will study quarters that celebrate the National Parks of the 50 states in order to locate places on a U.S. map. See webpage: https://www.usmint.gov/learn/coin-and-medal-programs/america-the-beautiful-quarters
- 8.2.6.C.8. Women's Movement. In particular, students study quarters that honor women leaders in order to explain a variety of their political and cultural contributions. See https://www.usmint.gov/learn/coin-and-medal-programs/american-women-quarters.
2nd group of lessons: My curriculum unit will address aspects of the following 5th Grade Math Common Core Standards about place value, decimals, and fractions.
- 5.NBT.A.1: Recognize that in a multi-digit number, a digit in one place represents 10 times as much as it represents in the place to its right, and 1/10 of what it represents in the place to its left.
- 5.NBT.A.3: Read, write, and compare decimals to thousandths.
- 5.NF.A.1: Add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators, including mixed numbers.
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