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2016-2017 Washington County School District Pacing Guide 6th Grade Social Studies
Dates
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Enduring Skills/
Understandings
--I can use a variety of
geographic tools to
interpret patterns and
locations on Earth’s
surface in present day.
-- I can describe the
earth’s major landforms
and how they affect
where human activities
are located in the present
day.
--I can describe how
groups compete for space
in America.
--I can explain the causes
and effects of
immigration.
Unit Topic
Map
Skills/Five
Themes of
Geography
North
America
Standards
Essential Vocabulary
SS-06-4.1.1—Students will use a variety of
geographic tools (maps, photographs, charts,
graphs, databases, satellite images) to interpret
patterns and locations on Earth’s surface in the
present day.
Movement, region, human
environmental interaction, location,
place, legend, absolulte location,
relative location, map scale, compass
rose, global grid, latitude, longitude,
prime meridian, equator,
SS-06-4.2.1--Students will describe how regions
in the present day are made distinctive by human
characteristics (e.g., dams, roads, urban centers)
and physical characteristics (e.g., mountains,
bodies of water, valleys) that create advantages
and disadvantages for human activities (e.g.,
exploration, migration, trade, settlement,
development).
Urban, rural, suburb, urban sprawl,
migration, push and pull factors,
immigration, emigration, metropolitan
area, population density, refugee,
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--I can examine the
differences between the
“haves” and “have nots”
in Latin/South America.
--I can explain the role
indigenous cultures play
in the world.
South
America
/Latin
America
SS-06-2.1.1--Students will explain how elements
of culture (e.g., language, the arts, customs,
beliefs, literature) define specific groups in the
global world of the present day and may result in
unique perspectives.
“haves”, “have nots”, rural decline,
indigenous people, subsistence
farming, adaptation
SS-06-4.2.2--Students will describe and give
examples of how places and regions in the
present day change over time as technologies,
resources and knowledge become available.
Life expectancy, euro, brexit,
demography, common market,
population pyramids
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--I can understand the
basic aspects of the
European union.
--I can compare life
expaectany in Europe
and other parts of the
world.
Europe
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--I can analyze modern
uses of the Nile River.
--I can explain how
people adapt to living in
the desert region.
--I can explain how ethnic
diversity affects coutries
in Africa.
--I can describe the
effects of apartheid in
South Africa
--I can explain the role oil
plays in the modern
Middle East.
--I can describe the Indian
monsoon season.
--I can explain how China
meets challenges created
by a large and growing
population.
--I can describe how
population density affects
te way people live in
Japan.
Africa
Asia
SS-06-2.3.1--Students will explain how conflict
and competition (e.g., political, economic,
religious, ethnic) occur among individuals and
groups in the present day.
Hydroelectric power, drought,
desertification, oases, technology,
ethnic diversity, linguistic group,
colonialism, cultural region,
segregation, discrimination,
apartheid, per capita, distribution,
multiracial
SS-06-4.3.1--Students will describe patterns of
human settlement in the present day and explain
how these patterns are influenced by human
needs.
SS-06-4.3.2--Students will explain why and give
examples of how human populations may change
and/or migrate because of factors such as war,
famine, disease, economic opportunity and
technology in the present day.
SS-06-4.4.2--Students will describe ways in which
the physical environment (e.g., natural resources,
physical geography, natural disasters) both
promotes and limits human activities (e.g.,
exploration, migration, trade, settlement,
development) in the present day.
Crude oil, oil reserves, nonrenewable
resources, renewable resources,
monsoon, Indian ocean, Himalayan
mountains, famine, pollution, birth
rate, death rate, consumption,
population density, arable land,
terracing
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