SIXTH GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES

Alaska Content Standards

 

HISTORY

 

Standard A.  A student should understand that history is a record of

                        human experiences that links the past to the present and

                        future.

Standard B.  A student should understand historical themes through

                        factual knowledge of time, places, ideas, institutions,

                        cultures, people, and events.

Standard C.  A student should develop the skills and processes of

                        historical inquiry.

Standard D.  A student should be able to integrate historical

                        knowledge with historical skill to effectively participate

                        as a citizen and as a lifelong learner.

 

 

GOVERNMENT AND CITIZENSHIP

 

Standard A.  A student should know and understand how societies

                        define authority, rights, and responsibilities through a

                        governmental process.

Standard B.  A student should understand the constitutional

                        foundations of the American political system and the

                        democratic ideals of this nation.

Standard C.  A student should understand the character of government

                        of the state.

Standard D.  A student should understand the role of the United States in international affairs.

Standard E.  A student should have the knowledge and skills necessary

                        to participate effectively as an informed and responsible

                        citizen.

Standard F.  A student should understand the economies of the United

                        States and the state and their relationships to the global

                        economy.

Standard G.  A student should understand the impact of economic

                        choices and participate effectively in the local, state,

                    national, and global economies.

 

 

         

GEOGRAPHY

 

Standard A.  A student should be able to make and use maps, globes,

                    and graphs to gather, analyze, and report spatial

                    (geographic) information.

Standard B.  A student should be able to utilize, analyze, and explain

                    information about the human and physical features of

                    places and regions.

Standard C.  Student should understand the dynamic and interactive

                    natural forces that shape the earth’s environments.

Standard D.  A student should understand and be able to interpret

                    spatial (geographic) characteristics of human systems,

                    including migration, movement, interactions of cultures,

                    economic activities, settlement patterns, and political units

                    in the state, nation, and world.

Standard E.  A student should understand and be able to evaluate how

                    humans and physical environments interact.

Standard F.  A student should be able to use geography to understand

                    the world by interpreting the past, knowing the present,

                    and preparing for the future.

 

 

COURSE CONTENT

The sixth grade social studies curriculum will focus on world history relative to early civilizations to the countries of the world.  Students will compare ancient civilizations and cultures, locate geographic features, and describe ways that historical events have influenced national and global settings.

 

CULTURE

·        Define the basic components of culture

·        Compare how cultures differ in their use of similar environments and resources

·        Describe the major social, economic, and political contributions of major historical civilizations (e.g., Greece and Rome, China and Japan)

·        Evaluate the continuing impact of such civilizations on contemporary world cultures(e.g., architecture, medicine, democratic concepts, and innovations)

·        Describe the development of religion, the arts, science, and literature of major geographic and cultural regions

·        Define cultural diffusion

·        Analyze common characteristics of languages, customs, shelter, diet, traditional occupations, belief systems, and folk traditions

·        Recognize how cultural and individual perceptions affect places and region

·        Understand the influence of science and technology on the development of culture through time

CITIZENSHIP/GOVERNMENT

·        Identify and describe major world political systems and the role of the individual in such systems (e.g., dictatorships, constitutional monarchies, and representative democracies)

·        Explain the development of a people’s need to belong and organize into a system of governance

·        Identify written laws handed down form ancient civilizations

·        Explore the development of citizenship and government in ancient civilizations

·        Explain and apply concepts such as power, role, status, justice and influence to the examination of persistent issues and social problems

·        Recognize the relationship between a place’s physical, political and cultural characteristics and the type of government that emerges in that place

·        Identify how cooperation and conflict among people influence the division and control resources, rights and privileges

·        Understand the impact of individual and group decisions on citizens and communities

·        Understand how groups can impact change at world levels

HISTORY

·        Trace the historical development of political institutions

·        Trace the historical development of democratic ideals

·        Recognize the importance of fire, weapons, and tools to early cultures and agriculture

·        Explain how different early human communities expressed their beliefs

·        Explain how geologists, archaeologists, and anthropologists study early human development

·        Describe the characteristics of writing in Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Indus valley and how their written records shaped political, legal, religious, and cultural life

·        Recognize the influence of major religions between both ancient eastern and western cultures

·        Understand the place of historical events in the context of past, present, and future

·        Identify how to use historical information acquired from a variety of sources

·        Identify cause and effect of events leading to the rise and decline of civilizations

GEOGRAPHY

·        Apply the geographic concepts of location, place, human environment interactions, movement, and region to the area of study

·        Describe how geographic factors have influenced historical events, patterns of change, and daily life

·        Understand the characteristics and uses of maps

·        Identify the location of earth’s major landforms such as continents, islands, and mountain ranges, and major bodies of water such as the oceans, seas, rivers and gulfs

·        Describe the location of major physical characteristics such as landforms, climate, soils, water, features, vegetation, resources, and animal life, and human characteristics such as language groups, religions, political systems, economic systems, and population centers in the world

·        Explain how changing technology such as transportation and communication technology affect spatial relationships

·        Explain why places have specific physical and human characteristics in different parts of the world

ECONOMICS

·        Explain the relationship of supply and demand in World History

·        Investigate the impact of trade on the economies of early civilizations

·        Apply economic concepts to evaluate historic developments

·        Appraise the relationship among scarcity of resources, economic development, and international conflict

·        Define various types of economies and their methods of production and consumption

·        Differentiate between needs and wants

·        Analyze how supply and demand, and change in technologies impact the cost for goods and services

·        Identify reasons for industrial development

·        Identify and describe major economic systems and the role of governmental involvement and individual decision making with such systems (e.g., traditional, command, and market economies

 

 

 

Textbook:
ISBN#:
Publisher:
Discover Our Heritage 0-618-20661-2 Houghton Mifflin
Geography Lv. 6 0-395-80649-6 Houghton Mifflin