6th Grade
Social Studies Curriculum Overview
Unit 1: Geography
What will students understand as a result of this unit?
- Geography impacts the development of civilizations.
- There is an interaction between people and the environment
What “essential” and “unit” questions will focus this unit?
- How does culture provide an identity that influences how we view the world, make decisions, and seek
- solutions to problems?
- How do prior civilizations contribute the cultural elements of religion, art, music, architecture, science,
- Mathematics, traditions, beliefs, and language to the modern world.
- Do technological developments trigger turning points in history?.
- Does the past impact the present and inform the future?
- How do human beings and the environment interact?
Standards:
- SS.3.1, SS.3.2
- RH.6.4, RH.6.7
- WHST.6-8.2, WHST.6-8.6
- SL.6.1, SL.6.2
- L.6.4
Unit 2: River Valley Civilizations
What will students understand as a result of this unit?
- Technological developments trigger turning points in history
- Geography impacts the development of civilizations.
- Studying the past helps us to understand our present and make decisions about our future
- People develop different solutions for similar needs, challenges and desires
- Human beings adapt to and interact with the people and the world around them
What “essential” and “unit” questions will focus this unit?
- How does culture provides an identity that influences how we view the world, make decisions, and seek
- solutions to problems?
- How do prior civilizations contribute the cultural elements of religion, art, music, architecture, science,
- mathematics, traditions, beliefs, and language to the modern world.
- Do technological developments trigger turning points in history?.
- Does the past impact the present and inform the future?
- How do human beings and the environment interact?
Standards:
- SS.2.1, SS.2.3, SS.3.1, SS.3.2
- RH.6.1, RH.6.2, RH.6.4, RH.6.7,
- RL.6.2
- WHST.6-8.1, WHST.6-8.2, WHST 6-8.6, WHST.6-8.4, WHST 6-8.9, WHST.6-8.10
- SL.6.1, SL.6.2, SL.6.4
- L.6.4
Unit 3: Classical Civilizations
What will students understand as a result of this unit?
- Geography impacts the development of civilizations
- There is an interaction between people and the environment
- Prior civilizations have contributed the cultural elements of religion, art, music, architecture, science
- and mathematics, tradition, beliefs, and language to the modern world.
- People develop different solutions for similar needs, challenges, and desires
- There is an interaction between people and their environment
- How are cultures affected by the exchange of ideas and innovations?
- Assessing and interpreting evidence is essential to understanding and learning
- What “essential” and “unit” questions will focus this unit?
- How does culture provides an identity that influences how we view the world, make decisions, and seek
- solutions to problems?
- How do prior civilizations contribute the cultural elements of religion, art, music, architecture, science,
- mathematics, traditions, beliefs, and language to the modern world.
- Do technological developments trigger turning points in history?.
- Does the past impact the present and inform the future?
- How do human beings and the environment interact?
Standards
- SS.2.1, SS.2.3, SS.3.1, SS.3.2, SS.4.1, SS.5.1
- RH. 6-8.1, RH.6-8.2, RH.6-8.4, RH.6-8.7, RH.6-8.9
- RL.6.2
- WHST.6.1, WHST.6-8.2, WHST.6-8.4.a, WHST.6-8.7, WHST. 6-8.9, WHST.6-8.10,
- SL.6.1, SL.6.2, SL.6.4. SL.6.5
- L.6.4, L.6.4b, L.6.6
Unit 4: The Middle Ages
What will students understand as a result of this unit?
- Prior civilizations have contributed the cultural elements of religion, art, music, architecture, science
- and mathematics, traditions, beliefs, and language to the modern world.
- People develop different solutions for similar needs, challenges, and desires.
- Human beings adapt to and interact with the people and the world around them.
- Accessing and interpreting evidence is essential to understanding and learning.
- Studying the past helps us to understand our present and make decisions about our future.
- Culture provides an identity that influences how we view the world, make decisions, and seek solutions
- to problems.
What “essential” and “unit” questions will focus this unit?
- How does culture provides an identity that influences how we view the world, make decisions, and seek
- solutions to problems?
- How do prior civilizations contribute the cultural elements of religion, art, music, architecture, science,
- mathematics, traditions, beliefs, and language to the modern world.
- Do technological developments trigger turning points in history?.
- Does the past impact the present and inform the future?
- How do human beings and the environment interact
Standards:
- SS.2.1, SS.2.2, SS.2.3, SS.2.4, SS.4.1, SS.5.1
- RH.6-8.1, RH.6-8.2, RH.6-8.3, RH. 6-8.6, RH.6-8.7
- RL.6.2, RL.6.6a, RL.6.11
- WHST.6-8.1, WHST.6-8.2, WHST.6-8.5, WHST.6-8.6, WHST.6-8.7
- SL.6.1,
- L.6.4, L.6.4b, L.6.6
Unit 5: Emergence of the Modern World
What will students understand as a result of this unit?
- Culture provides an identity that influences how we view the world, make decisions, and seek solutions
- to problems.
- Prior civilizations have contributed the cultural elements of religion, art, music, architecture, science,
- mathematics, traditions, beliefs, and language to the modern world.
- Technological developments trigger turning points in history.
- The modern world emerged because of a powerful combination of events and advances in humanism,
- economy/trade, politics/government and technology (inventions and science).
- What “essential” and “unit” questions will focus this unit?
- How does culture provides an identity that influences how we view the world, make decisions, and seek
- solutions to problems?
- How do prior civilizations contribute the cultural elements of religion, art, music, architecture, science,
- mathematics, traditions, beliefs, and language to the modern world.
- Do technological developments trigger turning points in history?
- Does the past impact the present and inform the future?
- How do human beings and the environment interact?
Standards
- SS.2.2
- SS.2.3
- SS.3.1
- SS 3.2
- RI.6.3
- RH.6-8.1
- RH.6-8.3
- RH.6-8.4
- RH.6-8.5
- RH.6-8.6
- RH.6-8.7
- RH.6-8.8
- WHST.6-8
- WHST.6-8.4
- WHST.6-8.7
- WHST.6-8.8
- SL.6.4
Unit 6: Contemporary Issues in the Eastern Hemisphere
What will students understand as a result of this unit?
- Culture provides an identity that influences how we view the world, make decisions, and seek solutions
- to problems
- The past impacts the present and informs the future
- Studying the past helps us to understand our present and make decisions about our future.
- Accessing and interpreting evidence is essential to understanding and learning.
- Human beings adapt to and interact with the people and the world around them.
- Hunger is a chronic and persistent world-wide problem.
- People develop different solutions for needs, challenges, and desires.
- The finite amount of water on our planet creates challenges for human beings
What “essential” and “unit” questions will focus this unit?
- How do human beings and their environment interact?
- How do human beings interact with each other?
- How do past interactions impact the present?
- How can we learn from the past to inform the future?
- How does your opinion and experience of an education compare to and differ from other children in the
- Eastern Hemisphere?
- What challenges do children around the world encounter as they strive for an education?
- What is the chance of success for the current “Education for All” initiatives?
- How do human beings’ interactions impact the present?
Standards
- SS.2.1, SS.2.2, SS.2.3, SS.2.4, SS.3.2, SS.4.1, SS.5.1
- RH. 6-8.1, RH.6-8.2, RH.6-8.6, RH.6-8.7, RH.6-8.8, RH.6-8.9
- WHST.6.1, WHST.6-8.2, WHST.6-8.4, WHST.6-8.7, WHST.6-8.8, WHST.6-8.9
- SL.6.1, SL.6.2, SL.6.4. SL.6.5
