Grade Level: 6

River Valley Civilizations
  (Mesopotamia)

Concepts
Interdependence/Dependence/Conflict

Enduring Understandings
Access to water leads to the development of a civilization's resources, trade and inventions.
Humans shape and adapt to their environment to meet their needs.
Creative use of one's surroundings/resources may lead to economic growth and stability. Humans develop and continuously improve tools and other technologies to more efficiently meet their basic needs of food, shelter, and clothing.
Power and authority shape the rights and responsibilities of individuals in societies.
Language, literature and the arts reflect the values and beliefs of a civilization.
Competition for scarce resources may lead to conflict and struggle.
Development of a strong infrastructure can strengthen a civilization.
Movement of goods, people, and ideas are conduits for cultural change.

Skills
1.  Create appropriate maps and other tools to solve, illustrate or answer geographical problems.
2.  Identify main idea, take notes, enter data, paraphrase, and summarize main ideas from reading.
3.  Interpret literal, inferential, analytical reading of visual images, graphs, maps, tables and timelines.
4.  Predict probable consequences of historical events.
5.  Formulate historical questions and hypothesis from multiple perspectives using multiple sources.
6.  Identify the contributions that ancient peoples have contributed to the present world.
7.  Determine the cause and effect relationships and their impact on people, their environment and economic/political systems.
8.  Compare and contrast regions based on their geography, social, economic and political systems.

Ancient River Valley Civilizations
   (Egypt)

Concepts
Interdependence/Dependence/Conflict

Enduring Understandings
Access to water leads to the development of a civilization's resources, trade and inventions.
Humans shape and adapt to their environment to meet their needs.
Creative use of one's surroundings/resources may lead to economic growth and stability. Humans develop and continuously improve tools and other technologies to more efficiently meet their basic needs of food, shelter, and clothing.
Power and authority shape the rights and responsibilities of individuals in societies.
Language, literature and the arts reflect the values and beliefs of a civilization.
Competition for scarce resources may lead to conflict and struggle.
Development of a strong infrastructure can strengthen a civilization.
Movement of goods, people, and ideas are conduits for cultural change.

Skills
1.  Create appropriate maps and other tools to solve, illustrate or answer geographical problems.
2.  Identify main idea, take notes, enter data, paraphrase, and summarize main ideas from reading.
3.  Interpret literal, inferential, analytical reading of visual images, graphs, maps, tables and timelines.
4.  Predict probable consequences of historical events.
5.  Formulate historical questions and hypothesis from multiple perspectives using multiple sources.
6.  Identify the contributions that ancient peoples have contributed to the present world.
7.  Determine the cause and effect relationships and their impact on people, their environment and economic/political systems.
8.  Compare and contrast regions based on their geography, social, economic and political systems.

Ancient China

Concepts
Conflict/Cooperation, Systems, Culture

Enduring Understandings
Access to water leads to the development of a civilization's resources, trade and inventions.
Humans shape and adapt to their environment to meet their needs.
Creative use of one's surroundings/resources may lead to economic growth and stability. Humans develop and continuously improve tools and other technologies to more efficiently meet their basic needs of food, shelter, and clothing.
Power and authority shape the rights and responsibilities of individuals in societies.
Language, literature and the arts reflect the values and beliefs of a civilization.
Competition for scarce resources may lead to conflict and struggle.
Development of a strong infrastructure can strengthen a civilization.
Movement of goods, people, and ideas are conduits for cultural change.

Skills
1.  Create appropriate maps and other tools to solve, illustrate or answer geographical problems.
2.  Identify main idea, take notes, enter data, paraphrase, and summarize main ideas from reading.
3.  Interpret literal, inferential, analytical reading of visual images, graphs, maps, tables and timelines.
4.  Predict probable consequences of historical events.
5.  Formulate historical questions and hypothesis from multiple perspectives using multiple sources.
6.  Identify the contributions that ancient peoples have contributed to the present world.
7.  Determine the cause and effect relationships and their impact on people, their environment and economic/political systems.
8.  Compare and contrast regions based on their geography, social, economic and political systems.

The Empire of India

Concepts
Change/Culture

Enduring Understandings
Access to water leads to the development of a civilization's resources, trade and inventions.
Humans shape and adapt to their environment to meet their needs.
Creative use of one's surroundings/resources may lead to economic growth and stability. Humans develop and continuously improve tools and other technologies to more efficiently meet their basic needs of food, shelter, and clothing.
Power and authority shape the rights and responsibilities of individuals in societies.
Language, literature and the arts reflect the values and beliefs of a civilization.
Competition for scarce resources may lead to conflict and struggle.
Development of a strong infrastructure can strengthen a civilization.
Movement of goods, people, and ideas are conduits for cultural change.

Skills
1.  Create appropriate maps and other tools to solve, illustrate or answer geographical problems.
2.  Identify main idea, take notes, enter data, paraphrase, and summarize main ideas from reading.
3.  Interpret literal, inferential, analytical reading of visual images, graphs, maps, tables and timelines.
4.  Predict probable consequences of historical events.
5.  Formulate historical questions and hypothesis from multiple perspectives using multiple sources.
6.  Identify the contributions that ancient peoples have contributed to the present world.
7.  Determine the cause and effect relationships and their impact on people, their environment and economic/political systems.
8.  Compare and contrast regions based on their geography, social, economic and political systems.

Ancient Greece

Concepts
Interdependence/Dependence, Influence, Systems

Enduring Understandings
Natural environments provide challenges that shape the development of civilizations.
Civilizations establish political structures consistent with their values and belief systems.
Language, literature and the arts reflect the values and beliefs of a civilization.
Humans develop and continually improve on tools and other technologies to more efficiently meet the needs of society.
Limited resources require individual communities/civilizations to make choices.
A society's belief/value system affects its historical accomplishments.

Skills
1.  Identify cause and effect relationships.
2.  Classify items in categories: find patterns.
3.  Record information by note-taking/mapping/graphing.
4.  Summarize information from readings, videos and other historical sources.
5.  Present evidence to argue in support of or against an issue under consideration.
6.  Identify primary and secondary sources.
7.  Develop generalizations/theories combining concepts from one or more disciplines.
8.  Analyze the values implied in the sources of information.
9.  Predict probable consequences of historical events.
10. Interpret maps, charts, graphs, tables, timelines, etc.

Ancient Rome

Concepts
Influence, Systems, Culture

Enduring Understandings
A society's beliefs and values system affects its historical accomplishments.
Physical geography affects the development and growth of societies around the world.
Military conquest shapes the economy of a nation.
Ancient civilizations adapt their government to fit the needs of their society.
Values drive traditions, beliefs, and morals to shape culture and may lead to unification.
Humans develop and continually improve on tools and other technologies to more efficiently meet the needs of society.

Skills
1.  Record information by note-taking/mapping.
2.  Classify items in categories: find patterns.
3.  Identify cause/effect relationships.
4.  Summarize information from readings, videos, and other historical sources.
5.  Present evidence to argue in support of or against the issue under consideration.
6.  Identify primary/secondary sources.
7.  Develop generalization theories combining concepts from one or more disciplines.
8.  Analyze the values implied in the sources of information.
9.  Predict probable consequences of historical events.
10. Identify the contributions the ancient people have contributed to the present world.
11. Interpret maps, charts, graphs, tables, timelines.