Discover! Social Studies 5
It's geography, culture, civics, economics, and history all rolled into one unforgettable adventure.
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2026 Fifth-Grade Curriculum Kit
Discover! Social Studies 5
How do geography, culture, and resources shape the way people live? What can we learn by exploring regions beyond our own borders? Discover! Social Studies 5 helps students investigate these questions through a broad study of world geography and global cultures.
This full-year homeschool curriculum explores the geography, history, cultures, and economies of Africa, Asia, Central America and the Caribbean, Europe, North America, South America, and Oceania. Through colorful student worktexts, your child will examine how people adapt to their environments, use natural resources, preserve traditions, and respond to challenges unique to their regions.
Lessons combine reading, vocabulary development, writing activities, maps, and hands-on projects to help students build geographic literacy while developing a deeper understanding of the world's diverse cultures. As your child works through the course, he'll strengthen critical-thinking skills while learning to recognize connections between people, places, resources, and historical events.
The accompanying Instructor Guide provides lesson support, answer keys, teaching suggestions, and assessments. Together, the worktexts and guide create an open-and-go program that is easy to implement while still providing meaningful social studies instruction.
Designed specifically for homeschool families, Discover! Social Studies 5 combines geography, history, culture, economics, and civics to help your child develop a broader understanding of the world and the people who share it.
How to Use Discover! Social Studies
- Discover! Social Studies is designed as a full-year curriculum. We suggest completing two lessons each week, or one lesson and one review, to comfortably finish the course during a typical academic year.
- Each lesson combines reading, discussion, and written activities to help your child engage with new ideas and connect with the world around him. Encourage him to explain concepts in his own words, share observations, and discuss how the topics relate to everyday life.
- Use the Instructor Guide as your primary teaching resource. It provides lesson support, answer keys, teaching suggestions, and ideas for adapting lessons to different learning styles.
- Whenever possible, connect the lessons to real-life experiences. Conversations about communities, geography, cultures, government, economics, or historical events often become more meaningful when children can see how those ideas apply beyond the page.
- Don't feel pressured to rush through the material. Social studies is often best learned through discussion, reflection, and making connections. If a topic sparks extra interest, take time to explore it further before moving on.
By the end of the course, your child will have developed a stronger understanding of people, places, communities, and cultures while building the critical-thinking and communication skills that support lifelong learning.
Chapter 2: Asia
Chapter 3: Central America and the Caribbean
Chapter 4: Europe
Chapter 5: North America
Chapter 6: South America
Chapter 7: Oceania
5A:
Publisher: Edovate Learning Corp
ISBN: 9781956330120
Printed in: United States
Copyright: 2021
Ages: 5th Grade
Pages: 299
Lessons: 43
Faith-Based: No
5B:
Publisher: Edovate Learning Corp
ISBN: 9781956330137
Printed in: United States
Copyright: 2021
Ages: 5th Grade
Pages: 212
Lessons: 32
Faith-Based: No
Instructor Guide:
Publisher: Edovate Learning Corp
ISBN: 9781956330144
Printed in: United States
Copyright: 2021
Ages: 5th Grade
Pages: 217
Lessons: 75
Faith-Based: No
Assessment Booklet
Publisher: Edovate Learning Corp
ISBN: 9781960937049
Printed in: United States
Ages: 5th Grade
Faith-Based: No
Find answers to the most frequently asked questions about this product below:
A full year of world geography and cultures, one region at a time: Africa, Asia, Central America and the Caribbean, Europe, North America, South America, and Oceania.
In each region your child reads maps and studies the land, natural resources, trade, migration, and culture, with a chapter review to close it out.
Four books: the 5A and 5B Worktexts your child reads and writes in, the Instructor Guide with lesson support, answer keys, and teaching suggestions, and a test booklet.
Together they hold 75 lessons. At two lessons a week, that fills a typical school year.
No, this course is nonreligious.
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- September 24, 2026
DDB
This is a solid social studies curriculum that we have found helpful . The lessons are quite long but are engaging! We take this one really slow to fully digest all of the information inside, and you can supplement with many online resources. Lots of graphic organizers inside and deep conversation points.
- February 21, 2026
A little repetitive
Kristen F.
I like the information presented in this book. There are options for online searches and crafts. We do 2 lessons each week broken up across 4 days. The only criticism I have about this book is that it feels repetitive when exploring different regions in the world. The book mentions how people settled near water for resources such as food, water or farming in every section we read. I wish they would have given us some other interesting facts about those areas. I looked at the book for next year with this brand and it looks more promising. Overall, the book was informative.
