A resource book that presents the knowledge that should be learned in the fifth grade as identified by the Core Knowledge Foundation, and includes math, language arts, science, history, geography, art, and technology.

Language and literature. Poetry ; Stories, myths, and legends, Learning about literature ; Learning about language ; Sayings and phrases -- History and geography. World geography ; Early civilizations of the Americas ; European exploration ; The Renaissance and Reformation ; England ; Russia ; Feudal Japan ; Westward expansion before the Civil War ; The Civil War ; Reconstruction ; Westward expansion after the Civil War ; Native Americans : cultures and confliction ; U.S. geography -- Visual arts. The Renaissance ; American art ; Japanese art -- Music. Elements of music ; Listening and understanding ; Spirituals ; Songs about westward expansion ; American songs ; Songs about love and lovers -- Mathematics. Numbers and number sense ; Computation ; Decimals, fractions, and mixed numbers ; Ratios, percents, and probabilities ; Graphs, functions, and word problems. Geometry -- Science. Chemistry : matter and change ; Classifying living things ; Plants ; Life cycles and reproduction ; The human body ; Science biographies.