Ukraine Grade 5 History Curriculum

Introduction to History (35 hours)

What is History?

• Past, present, and future.
• History as a science and school subject.
• History of Ukraine as part of European history.
• History textbook.

Topic 1: Countdown in History

• Calendar and historical time.
• Working with timelines.
• Cultural eras of European history:
• Primitive society
• Antiquity
• Middle Ages
• Modern period
• History of Ukraine on a timeline.

Topic 2: Where History Takes Place

• Geographical and historical space.
• Working with historical maps.
• Ukraine on maps throughout history.
• Territorial borders of:
• Kievan Rus'
• Kingdom of Ruthenia (Kingdom of Galicia-Volhynia)
• Cossack Republic/Zaporizhian Host/Cossack Hetmanate and their changes
• Territories of a new Ukraine.
• Ukrainian State and its neighbors.
• Historical and geographical regions of Ukraine and their features (at teacher's choice).
• Territorial location and historical origin of hometown/village.

Topic 3: Sources for Studying History

• Historical sources and their types.
• Identification and preservation of historical sources.
• Using different sources to reflect the completeness of history.
• Working with historical sources.
• Critical attitude to source information.
• Places where historical sources are stored.

Topic 4: History of Ukraine in Sites and Monuments

• Historical sites as sources of historical and cultural information.
• Monuments as works of art.
• Working with visual and written sources:
• Kingdom of Ruthenia-Ukraine: Volodymyr and Danylo Halytskyi (Vladimir and Daniel of Galicia)
• Cossack Ukraine: Bohdan Khmelnytsky
• Modern Ukraine:
• Ukrainian War of Independence
• Holodomor (the Great Famine)
• World War II
• Declaration of independence of Ukraine
• Adoption of the Constitution of Ukraine
• Revolution of Dignity

Topic 5: History Researchers

• Main goals of learning about the past.
• Profession of historian.
• Historical fact, historical person, and historical research.
• Historical works about Ukraine and their authors:
• Rus' chronicles (letopises): Rus' Primary Chronicle by Nestor the Chronicler
• Cossack chronicles: Chronicle of Samiilo Velychko
• Historical works of the 19th - early 20th centuries: History of Ukraine-Rus by Mykhailo Hrushevsky
• Research on the history of native land (at teacher's choice).
• Scientific and artistic interpretation of the past.
• Works of fiction about the past of Ukraine (at teacher's choice).

Topic 6: Everything Has a Past

• Labor and economy: then and now.
• Traditional occupations of Ukrainians.
• From subsistence to market economy.
• Use of scientific and technological achievements in production and its consequences.
• City and village.
• Occupations and living conditions of the population in Ukrainian cities and villages in the past and now.
• Science and education.
• Schools and universities in the territory of Ukraine.
• Growing role of brainwork.
• Health care.
• Medicine.
• Pharmacies.
• Sports.
• Leisure activities in the past.