• Our African, Asian, and European backgrounds

• Exploration and discovery

• Growth and development of the United States 

Colonial life Struggle for independence

U. S. Constitution and Bill of Rights

Westward movement in America

• American Civil War

• -Reconstruction

• U. S. as a world power

• Meaning of democracy

• Our American culture

• U. S. political system

• U. S. economic system

• U. S. government

• U. S. geography

• Advanced map and globe skills

• Scientific method

• Scientific nomenclature

• Scientific measurement

• Ecology and environment

• Conservation

• Composition of the earth

• Ocean, atmosphere

• Weather

• Water and its uses

• Weathering and erosion

• Recycling of resources

• Magnetism and electricity

• Heat and light

• Forces in liquids and gases

• Wave, mechanical, electrical, and nuclear energy

• The earth’s movement

• Newton’s three laws of motion

• Machines

• The atom

• Periodic table of elements

• Compounds and mixtures

• Chemical changes

• Astronomy

• The universe and Milky Way

• Space and space travel

 

• Independent reading

• Literal, inferential, and evaluative reading skills

• Literary terms

• Novel, short story, narrative poetry

• Nonfiction

• Biographies of great Americans

• American poets and storytellers

• Creative dramatics

• Listening and speech activities

• Advanced dictionary work

• Extended vocabulary

• Figures of speech

• Spelling

• Infinitive, participle, gerund, predicate nominative, predicate adjective, direct and indirect object

• Kinds of sentences and their parts

• Functions of sentence elements

• Writing simple business letters

• Report-writing skills

• Improving skills in using basic reference sources

• Inductive and deductive reasoning

• Grooming

• Functions of the body

• The body’s utilization of food

• Types and functions of foods

• Environmental hazards

• Community sanitation and health

• Health care services

• Sexually transmitted diseases

• Accident prevention, safety, and first aid

• Mental hygiene

• Substance abuse

• Maintaining skills in fundamental operations

• Factoring and products

• Sets and simple sentences

• Numeration systems

• Using fractions and decimals

• Ratio, proportion, and percent

• Equalities and inequalities

• Simple formulas and equations

• Graphing an equation

• Powers and roots of rational numbers

• Polynomials

• Metric and nonmetric geometry

• Pythagorean Theorem

• Scale drawing

• Right-triangle trigonometry

• Customary and metric measurement

• Permutations

• Probability statistics

• Statistical terms

• Mathematics of insurance, banking, and taxes