Nevada History Standards

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Grade 5

Students know and are able to do everything required in earlier grades and:

• 1.5.1 Identify current events from multiple sources.
• 1.5.2 Record events on a graphic organizer, such as a calendar or time line.

Students know and are able to do everything required in earlier grades and:

• 2.5.1 Ask a historical question and identify resources to be used in research.
• 2.5.2 Organize historical information from a variety of sources.

Students know and are able to do everything required in earlier grades and:

• 3.5.1 Define hunter-gatherer.
• 3.5.5 Locate Nevada's earliest Native American inhabitants, known as the Desert Archaic people.

Students know and are able to do everything required in earlier grades and:

• 4.5.1 Identify explorations of the Vikings in North America.

Students know and are able to do everything required in earlier grades and:

• 5.5.5 Identify Nevada's Native American cultures, including:
• Northern Paiute
• Southern Paiute
• Washoe
• Western Shoshone
• 5.5.6 Describe Native North American life prior to European contact, such as:
• clothing
• communication
• family
• food
• shelter
• transportation
• tools
• 5.5.7 Describe expeditions of early explorers, including:
• Christopher Columbus
• Ferdinand Magellan
• 5.5.8 Describe relationships among Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans.
• 5.5.11 Describe colonial life in North America.

Students know and are able to do everything required in earlier grades and:

• 6.5.4 Identify the events that led to the Declaration of Independence.
• 6.5.5 Identify key people of the American Revolution, including:
• George Washington
• Benjamin Franklin
• 6.5.14 Describe the relationship between the War of 1812 and the national anthem.
• 6.5.17 Describe experiences of pioneers moving west, including:
• Donner Party
• Oregon and California Trails
• 6.5.18 Identify explorers and settlers in preterritorial Nevada, including:
• Kit Carson
• John C. Fremont
• 6.5.21 Identify the Civil War and final outcome, including:
• Union and Confederacy
• Generals Grant and Lee
• 6.5.22 Explain the symbols, mottos, and slogans related to Nevada,including:
• "Battle Born"
• state seal
• Silver State
• state flag

Students know and are able to do everything required in earlier grades and:

• 7.5.7 Identify the contributions of the inventors and discoverers, including:
• Thomas Edison
• Wright brothers
• Alexander Graham Bell
• George Washington Carver
• 7.5.9 Describe the contributions of immigrant groups to the United States.
• 7.5.11 Describe the significance of Labor Day.
• 7.5.17 Describe the distinction between Veterans Day and Memorial Day.

Students know and are able to do everything required in earlier grades and:

• 8.5.5 Identify the major events of the Great Depression, such as:
• stock market crash
• Dust Bowl
• migration
• Hoover Dam
• 8.5.6 Identify the United States' participation in World War II, such as:
• Pearl Harbor
• homefront
• D-Day
• atomic bomb

Students know and are able to do everything required in earlier grades and:

• 9.5.5 Identify major advancements in science and technology, including:
• television
• computers
• 9.5.8 Identify the major points in Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.

Students know and are able to do everything required in earlier grades and:

• 10.5.3 Identify major news events on the local, state, national, and world level.