Grade 6 Social Studies

District 2853

Timelines

Content

Technology Used

Skills for Student Achievement

Assessment

 

4 weeks

·         Geography

 

·         Reviewing the continents and oceans.

·         Review longitude and latitude.

·         Review all map skills.

·         Review different type of maps.

·         Understand natural resources, vegetation, and climates of areas.

·         Packets used for assessing

P. 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 9

·         Map Test

·         Ongoing use by finding places discussed

2 week

·         Culture

 

·         Review legacies of society.

·         Review customs and standards.

·         Review of community foundations.

·         Define archaeologists and anthropologists.

·         Identify steps in development of cuneiform writing and illustrate in short work.

·         Explain essence of Hammurabi’s Law’s

·         Explain how language

·         Describe ways individuals groups and institutions contribute to change.

·         Describe relationships between significant events.

·         End of section questions

·         Workbook pages 14, 21, 25, 26, 28, 32

·         End of Unit Review pages

·         Map test

·         Teacher observation

·         Decorate in period design

·         Written test

·         Individual research

·         Group work

6 weeks

·         Ancient Middle East

 

·         Understand the importance of water and it’s ramifications with regards to the Middle East.

·         Understand the governmental aspects of Ancient Middle East

·         Introduce Middle East accomplishments.

·         Realize that modern day writing began in this era.

·         Realize that bartering began in this time era.

·         Compare and contrast the differences with the United States.

·         End of section questions

·         Workbook pages 14, 21, 25, 26, 28, 32

·         End of Unit Review pages

·         Written test

·         Group work

·         Teacher observation

·         Individual research

7 weeks

·         Ancient Greece and Rome

 

·         An alphabet begins in this time.

·         Understand the birth of democracy.

·         List benefits of life by the sea.

·         Compare and contrast Sparta and Athens.

·         Explain origin of Olympic games and relate and compare to present day.

·         List features of Greek culture that influence life today.

·         Relate Greek ideas of democracy to present day ideas.

·         Explain why Alexander was Great

·         Explain how war and conflict were familiar to the Greeks.

·         Identify events to explain the fall of the Roman Empire

·         Report how Hannibal influenced war

·         Compare and contrast religions studied, Christianity and U.S.

·         Discuss Roman/Greek leadership:  political & religious.

·         Recognize Roman influence on architecture, engineering, education and government t with emphasis on contributions of the Greeks.

·         Describe the movement of people, ideas, and diseases throughout the world.

·         Identify significant events and people in the major eras of the world.

·         Explain how language can further understanding.

·         Written test

·         Teacher observation

·         Group work

·         Individual research

 

·         Current Events

(on going through out the school year.)

·         Time for Kids weekly publication

 

 

 

18 weeks

·         Minnesota History

 

·         Understand how early civilizations impact Minnesota history.

·         Compare and contrast the beginning of a variety of communities in Minnesota.

·         Discuss Minnesota’s beginnings.

·         Sequence the type of cultures that lived in Minnesota during its history.

·         Realize Minnesota’s involvement in the Civil War.

·         Realize that Minnesota was involved with the Sioux Uprising.

·         Discuss politics with relationship to state and  nation.

·         Chapter readings and discussions

·         End of Chapter worksheet

·         Chapter Tests

·         Minnesota Book

·         Group work

·         Teacher observation

·         Individual research

·         Map test

·         Project – Plan a vacation for the teacher

 

TECHNOLOGY USED:         

- Research

- Word Processing

- Group Individual presentation/brochure/PowerPoint

- Internet/Virtual tours