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Tangipahoa Parish School System
Social Studies Implementation Guide
Grade 6
Unit 2: River Valley Civilizations (4000-1000 B.C.)
Time Frame: 6 Weeks
Suggested
Time
Comprehensive
Curriculum
Activity
Week 6
Activity 1
Activity 2
Grade Level Expectations
17, 28, 2, 3, 9, 19, 21, 24, 27
17. Describe the defining characteristics of
major world civilizations from political,
social, and economic perspectives (H-1AM2)
28. Describe the major characteristics of
early river valley civilizations (H-1C-M3)
2. Identify land and climatic conditions
conducive to human settlement in regions of
the
world and describe the role of these
conditions (G-1B-M1)
3. Identify physical features that influenced
world historical events and describe their
influence (e.g., the Nile and Tigris-Euphrates
as “cradles of civilization”) (G-1BM2)
9. Explain how different physical
environments affected human activity in
ancient civiliations
19. Use multiple primary and secondary
sources to describe world civilizations (H1AM4)
21. Conduct historical research using a
variety of resources to answer historical
Harcourt
Teacher
Edition Pages
Unit 2-3
Recommended
Assessments
Textbook
Resources
CCG BLM River
Research, pp. 6-13
Harcourt Activity
Book, pp. 28-29
Write a travel
journal (story
chain)
Transparencies, p.
2-10
Other
Resources
Time For Kids, “When Farming Took Root”
i-Leap Practice
Group Presentation
www.unitedstreaming.com
www.harcourtschool.com
http://www.tangischools.org/Tech/taillon/Resources.htm
http://www.tangischools.org/CC/GLE/Sixth%20Grade.htm
i-Leap Formatted
Test
http://www.tangischools.org/eciweb/COMPREHENSIVE_CURRICULUM.html
questions related to world civilizations (H1A-M6)
24 Explain how geographical features
influenced development of early civilizations
(e.g., domestication, cultivation,
specialization) (H-1C-M2)
27. Locate and describe the major river
systems and discuss the physical settings that
supported permanent settlement and early
civilizations in Mesopotamia, Egypt,
China, and the Indus valley (H-1C-M3)
Week 7
Activity 3
Activity 4
15, 17, 28, 2, 3, 9, 24
2. Identify land and climatic conditions
conducive to human settlement in regions of
the
world and describe the role of these
conditions (G-1B-M1)
3. Identify physical features that influenced
world historical events and describe their
influence (e.g., the Nile and Tigris-Euphrates
as “cradles of civilization”) (G-1BM2)
9. Explain how different physical
environments affected human activity in
ancient
civilizations (G-1D-M2)
15. Construct a timeline of key developments
in world history (political, social,
technological, religious/cultural)(H-1A-M1)
17. Describe the defining characteristics of
major world civilizations from political,
social, and economic perspectives (H-1AM2)
Unit 2-3
Ch. 2-5
CCG Timeline
Poster (Act. 4) of 4
River Valley
Civilizations
Discussion
Teacher Oral
evaluation: How
physical features
affected/influenced
early civilizations
Vocabulary Cards
Student copies of World Maps
Transparencies 2-1
to 2-10
http://worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu/dev/units/three/landscape/03_landscape3.pdf
www.googleearth.com
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/egypt/literature/hieroglyphs.htm
www.harcourtschool.com
http://www.tangischools.org/Tech/taillon/Resources.htm
http://www.tangischools.org/CC/GLE/Sixth%20Grade.htm
http://www.tangischools.org/eciweb/COMPREHENSIVE_CURRICULUM.html
24 Explain how geographical features
influenced development of early civilizations
(e.g., domestication, cultivation,
specialization) (H-1C-M2)
28. Describe the major characteristics of
early river valley civilizations (H-1C-M3)
Week 8
Activity 5
4, 28, 35
4. Explain ways in which goals, cultures,
interests, inventions, and technological
advances have affected people’s perceptions
and uses of places or regions in world
history (G-1B-M4)
Unit 2, Ch.
2-3
CCG BLM
Ziggurat Rubric
Harcourt Activity
Book, pp. 26-33
Build or sketch a
model Ziggurat
Vocabulary
Cards/Picture
Cards showing
styles of
architecture
28. Describe the major characteristics of
early river valley civilizations (H-1C-M3)
Invite an architect, brick layer, engineer, carpenter, or
contractor to visit the class
www.mrdonn.org
www.harcourtschool.com
http://www.tangischools.org/Tech/taillon/Resources.htm
http://www.tangischools.org/CC/GLE/Sixth%20Grade.htm
http://www.tangischools.org/eciweb/COMPREHENSIVE_CURRICULUM.html
35. Identify forms of writing developed in
early civilizations and explain how written
records changed political, legal, religious,
and cultural life (H-1C-M3)
Week 9
Activity 6
28, 29, 35
28. Describe the major characteristics of
early river valley civilizations (H-1C-M3)
www.googleearth.com
Unit 2-3,
Ch. 2-5
Comparative
Essay-Teacher
Made Grading
Rubric
29. Describe how early river civilizations
influenced the development of other cultures
through trade and cultural diffusion (H-1CM4)
Harcourt Activity
Book, pp. 28-29
Transparencies, p.
2-10
Time For Kids Reader (Ancient Writing)
Google Search: Sample of Writing From 4 River
Valley Civilizations
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/MESO/CODE.HTM
http://www.crystalinks.com/rosetta.html
35. Identify forms of writing developed in
early civilizations and explain how written
records changed political, legal, religious,
and cultural life (H-1C-M3)
Week
Activity 7
28, 29, 3, 9
Unit 2-3,
CCG BLM, pp. 15
Harcourt Activity
Geoskills Map CD, copy of the poem, “The Negro
10
Activity 8
Ch. 2-6
28. Describe the major characteristics of
early river valley civilizations (H-1C-M3)
29. Describe how early river civilizations
influenced the development of other cultures
through trade and cultural diffusion (H-1CM4)
“The Negro Speaks Book, pp. 28-29
of Rivers,”
Develop a similar
Transparencies, p.
poem using a
2-10
different
geographical
feature share
Speaks of Rivers”
www.poets.org
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15722
www.harcourtschool.com
http://www.tangischools.org/Tech/taillon/Resources.htm
http://www.tangischools.org/CC/GLE/Sixth%20Grade.htm
3. Identify physical features that influenced
world historical events and describe their
influence (e.g., the Nile and Tigris-Euphrates
as “cradles of civilization”) (G-1BM2)
http://www.tangischools.org/eciweb/COMPREHENSIVE_CURRICULUM.html
9. Explain how different physical
environments affected human activity in
ancient
civilizations (G-1D-M2)
Week
11
Activity 9
4, 17, 28
4. Explain ways in which goals, cultures,
interests, inventions, and technological
advances have affected people’s perceptions
and uses of places or regions in world
history (G-1B-M4)
17. Describe the defining characteristics of
major world civilizations from political,
social, and economic perspectives (H-1AM2)
Unit 2-3
Teacher
Observation, Class
debate on
advantages and
disadvantages of
life in different
civilizations
Textbooks, notes, timelines, PowerPoint, maps, web
searches
Transparencies, p.
2-10
http://worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu/dev/units/three/landscape/03_landscape3.pdf
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/egypt/literature/hieroglyphs.htm
www.harcourtschool.com
http://www.tangischools.org/Tech/taillon/Resources.htm
Rubric
Unit Test
28. Describe the major characteristics of
early river valley civilizations (H-1C-M3)
Harcourt Activity
Book, pp. 28-29
http://www.tangischools.org/CC/GLE/Sixth%20Grade.htm
http://www.tangischools.org/eciweb/COMPREHENSIVE_CURRICULUM.html