GRADE 5 SOCIAL STUDIES
BELLRINGERS                                                       Prepared by Paulette Cefalu-Walkwitz

1. Identify the characteristics, functions, and applications of the following types of maps:
                       a.  map projections
                       b.  political map
                       c.  physical map
                       d.  resource map
                       e.  precipitation/climate map
                       f.   topographical/elevation map
                       g.  grid system

2.  Explain how location and  physical features influenced the development or life in the United States.

3.  What influence did location and physical setting have on the founding of the original thirteen colonies?

4.  Identify reasons why Europeans chose to explore and colonize the world.

5.  How did the trade of goods between the northern states and the southern states lead to economic interdependence among the thirteen colonies?

6.  Identify the geographic differences and similarities among the thirteen American colonies that led to political cooperation and conflict.

7.   How did human action impact the physical environment in early America?

8.  Identify examples of how American Indians and Europeans adapted to living in the physical environment of North America.

9.  Identify natural resources used by the people in the United States. 

10.  Identify some primary sources that describe key events or issues in early American history.

11.  Identify some secondary sources that describe key events or issues in early American history.

12.  Identify and describe some of the indigenous cultures and groups that existed in the Americas at the beginning of European exploration.

13.  Explain the "Triangular Trade" that connected the Americas, Western Europe, and Western Africa, prior to 1620.

14.  Compare and contrast Africans, Europeans, and Native Americans converging in the Western Hemisphere after 1492.

15.  Identify changes in cultures through  cultural diffusion, invention, and innovation.

16.  Identify major early explorations and explorers.  Also, identify their reason(s) for exploration.

17.  Identify the impact of the Spanish conquests in the Americas on the Aztecs, Incas, and other indigenous peoples.

18.  Identify the cultural, ecological, and economic impact of the Columbian Exchange.

19.  How did the arrival of Africans in the European colonies influence the seventeen century?

20.  How did the arrival of Africans in the European colonies influence the importation of slaves in the eighteenth century?

21.  Identify the societal impact of the immersion of Africans in the Americas. 

22.  Identify the conflict and cooperation between American Indians and European settlers.

23.  Identify the role of religious groups in colonial American communities.

24.  Explain the organization and structure of the thirteen British colonies that became the United States.
(economic, political, and social)

25.  Define the origins, characteristics, and major achievements of ancient American empires and complex societies in the Americas (e.g., Inca, Maya, Aztec, Olmec, Anasazi)