Fifth Grade "I Can" Statements for KY NEW Revised Social Studies Standards

Want to teach your students to track and reflect on their own progress in meeting learning targets? Use these bright and colorful PRINT and GO I CAN STATEMENTS to post the revised Kentucky Social Studies Standards in student-friendly language. In August, 2019, Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS) for Social Studies were adopted and Kentucky teachers and schools are now required to use the KAS for Social Studies  as the basis of their curricula and instruction. Communicating these goals through the posting of student-friendly “I can” statements in the classroom helps students become aware of what they will have to do to be successful.'

There are few tools more helpful in the classroom than the effective use of "I Can"t statements. These colorful “I Can” Statements can be posted so the students can read and refer to them throughout the social studies lesson. When posted in the classroom, the statements can be reviewed at the beginning of the lesson and throughout the class period, helping the teacher keep the focus of the lesson while assisting the students in focusing their thinking. The statements are written and communicated so they can be formatively assessed throughout the lesson.

"I Can" statements are best printed on light-weight cardstock and laminated for durability. Because all classrooms are unique, we have also included five EDITABLE slides for teachers to use if they wish to compose their own "I can" for some standards. Wording of an “I Can” statement can be revised using these templates while maintaining the intent of the standard. The "I Can" statements in our resource incorporates the content specific vocabulary to assist students in developing a familiarity and understanding of terminology necessary be successful at the level of rigor presented.

Fifth Grade Social Studies standards require students to:

• examine the conflict and compromise that resulted from migration and settlement of the U.S.
• identify the tensions and factors that led to the fight for independence and the establishment of the United States
• analyze the development and establishment of the U.S. federal government
• describe why the government collects taxes and what goods and services it provides society
• analyze how cultural, economic and environmental factors encouraged and restricted the movement of people, ideas and goods to and within the United States
• describe the impact of foundational documents on the development of the United States
• determine through analysis how a founding principle is applicable to today

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