Grade 6 Social Studies: the Eastern Hemisphere
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Grade 6 Social Studies: The Eastern Hemisphere Time Line/Date Key Ideas Conceptual Understanding Theme Standard Materials/Assessment Quarter 1 6.1 The Eastern Hemisphere has an 6.1a Physical maps reflect the Geography, Humans, and 3 Unit 1: Early expansive and varied geography varied climate zones, landforms, the Environment Civilizations and comprised of different regions, bodies of water, and natural September- Cultures (Social physical features, climates, and resources of the Eastern Studies The World; November human communities. The Hemisphere. Scott Foresman) geographic diversity of the Eastern Hemisphere has significantly 6.1b The Eastern Hemisphere can Unit 2: Early influenced physical mobility and be divided into various geographic Civilizations in the course of human development. regions based on physical features, human characteristics, or both. Africa and Asia (Social Studies The World; Scott 6.1c The physical diversity of the Foresman) Eastern Hemisphere affects the varied spread of settlements in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Oceania. Additional Resources/Materials: *Readers Theaters *Primary Source 6.2 The physical environment and 6.2a Early Eastern Hemisphere Geography, Humans, and 2,3 Biographies natural resources of the Eastern settlements made use of fertile the Environment * Nonfiction texts Hemisphere promoted development lands along rivers to sustain their *Unit DBQ of the first human settlements and communities. Development, Movement, *Leveled Books cultural systems. and Interaction of 6.2b Human populations that settled Cultures along rivers, in rainforests, along Assessments: oceans, in deserts, and in mountains Chapter Tests and made use of the resources and Quizzes; Short-term landscapes around them in projects developing distinct ways of life. Page 10 Grade 6 Social Studies : The Eastern Hemisphere Time Line/Date Key Ideas Conceptual Understanding Theme Standard Materials/Assessment 6.8 From earliest times, networks of 6.8a Civilizations design Development, Movement, 2,4 trade have connected the various technologies for transportation that and Interaction of civilizations of the Eastern allow them to traverse challenging Cultures Hemisphere. Long distance trade landscapes and move people and routes promoted interregional trade, goods efficiently. cultural exchanges and diffusion, Global Connections and and the desire to expand empires 6.8b The comparative advantage Exchange and influence. some civilizations had in producing certain goods, growing particular crops, or collecting important Creation, Expansion and mineral resources encouraged trade Interaction of Economic among civilizations. Systems 6.8c The interaction of people along trade routes promoted the exchange of language, belief systems, tools, intellectual ideas, and inventions. 6.8d Extensive global trade routes map the diffusion of belief systems, language, crops, and inventions across the Eastern Hemisphere and between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres. Page 11 Grade 6 Social Studies : The Eastern Hemisphere Time Line/Date Key Ideas Conceptual Understanding Theme Standard Materials/Assessment 6.9 As settlement patterns changed 6.9a Aristocracies, theocracies, Power, Authority, and 2,5 and civilizations developed, new monarchies, kinship systems, Governance forms of political order were dictatorships, oligarchies, and created to meet the more complex democracies have flourished at needs of societies and to maintain different times in different Eastern Time, Continuity, and order, provide security, and protect Hemisphere nations and empires. Change individual rights in different ways. 6.9b Each of these political systems has had different ways of selecting leaders, making laws, enforcing order, and protecting, and sometimes infringing upon, individual rights. 6.9c Religious values, nationalism, and humanist philosophies have shaped political systems in the Eastern Hemisphere. 6.12 The types and availability of 6.12b There is an economic gap Creation, Expansion, and 3,4 natural resources shape the between Eastern Hemisphere nations Interaction of Economic economic systems of nations in the that extract natural resources and Systems Eastern Hemisphere and play a those that make and distribute strong role in determining the finished products. Geography, Humans, and 4 strength and influence of those the Environment nations. Page 12 Grade 6 Social Studies : The Eastern Hemisphere Time Line/Date Key Ideas Conceptual Understanding Theme Standard Materials/Assessment Unit 6: Discovery 6.3 Civilizations across the Eastern 6.3c Civilizations create systems for Development, Movement 2 and Expansion Quarter 3 Hemisphere are characterized by locating and producing the and Interaction of *The Renaissance centralized governments, advanced materials they need and/or for Cultures *The Industrial January- commerce and trade systems, and trading with other communities to Revolution March complex social hierarchies. These acquire these goods. Science, Technology, and *The Second civilizations are influenced by Innovation Industrial Revolution scientific and cultural achievements *Imperialism, of civilizations that came before Nationalism, and them. Unification (Social Studies The World; 6.8 From earliest times, networks of 6.8b The comparative advantage Creation, Expansion, and Scott Foresman) trade have connected the various some civilizations had in producing Interaction of Economic civilization of the Eastern certain goods, growing particular Systems Unit 7: A World in Hemisphere. Long distance trade crops, or collecting important Opposition (Social routes promoted interregional trade, mineral resources encouraged trade Studies The World; cultural exchanges and diffusion, among civilizations. Scott Foresman) and the desire to expand empires and influence. Additional Resources/Materials: 6.9 As settlement patterns changed 6.9 Aristocracies, theocracies, Power, Authority, and * Nonfiction texts and civilizations developed, new monarchies, kinship systems, Governance *Leveled Books forms of political order were dictatorships, oligarchies, and created to meet the more complex democracies have flourished at Time, Continuity, and Assessments: needs of societies and to maintain different times in different Eastern Change Chapter Tests and order, provide security, and protect Hemisphere nations. Quizzes; Short-term individual rights in different ways. projects Page 13 Grade 6 Social Studies : The Eastern Hemisphere Time Line/Date Key Ideas Conceptual Understanding Theme Standard Materials/Assessment 6.9b Each of these political systems Power, Authority, and 2,4,5 has had different ways of selecting Governance leaders, making laws, enforcing order, and protecting, and sometimes infringing upon, individual rights. 6.12 The types and availability of 6.12a The economic system of a Creation, Expansion, and 3,4 natural resources shape the nation determines how goods are Interaction of Economic economic systems of nations in the produced and distributed and the Systems Eastern Hemisphere and play a role of the government in that strong role in determining the process. strength and influence of those Geography, Humans, and nations. 6.12b There is an economic gap the Environment between Eastern Hemisphere nations that extract natural resources and those that make and distribute finished products. Page 14 Grade 6 Social Studies : The Eastern Hemisphere Time Line/Date Key Ideas Conceptual Understanding Theme Standard Materials/Assessment Quarter 4 6.10 Different roles of citizenship 6.10a Constitutions in many Eastern Power, Authority, and 5 Unit 8: New and individual rights and Hemisphere nations outline the Governance Nations and a New responsibilities are defined in functions of the government and the Century (Scott April - June different constitutions and rights and responsibilities of the Civic Ideals and Practices Foresman The governing systems across the people. World) Eastern Hemisphere. 6.10b The nations of the Eastern Hemisphere reveal a multitude of Additional ways for people to be involved in Resources/Materials: their government. * Nonfiction texts *Leveled Books 6.10c Democratizers in Asia and *Videos Africa have included or proposed extensive lists of human rights in Assessments: their constitutions in response to the Chapter Tests and lack of human rights experienced Quizzes; Short-term before and during European projects colonialism. 6.10d Some governments suppress the individual rights of their citizens. 6.10e Women and people in minority racial, ethnic, or religious groups face struggles for justice and equal rights. Page 15 Grade 6 Social Studies : The Eastern Hemisphere Time Line/Date Key Ideas Conceptual Understanding Theme Standard Materials/Assessment 6.11 Increasingly, the nations of the 6.11a Continental and regional Power, Authority and 2,4,5 Eastern Hemisphere participate in alliances in Africa, Asia, and Governance and benefit from international Europe intend to promote economic organizations that promote peace, development, secure military cooperation, economic protection, and support cooperation Global Connections and development, global health, and among countries in the alliance. Exchange cultural understanding. 6.11b Monetary loans from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund have had varying impacts on countries in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, and Oceania. 6.11c The United Nations works to promote peace and cooperation between nations and to protect the rights of women, indigenous peoples, children, and other minority or