This parent guide supports parents in helping their child at home with the 6th grade Social Studies content.
This resource accompanies our Rethink 6th Grade Social Studies course. It includes ideas for use, ways to support exceptional children, ways to extend learning, digital resources and tools, tips for supporting English Language Learners and students with visual and hearing impairments. There are also ideas for offline learning.
In this activity, students will examine examples of laws from Hammurabi's Code from the ancient Babylonian civilization. In small groups, they will determine what those laws tell them about the ancient civilization.
Students will: compare and contrast the city-states, Athens and Sparta, using a Venn diagram. compose an essay including the similarities and differences between the city-states, Athens and Sparta.
In this lesson, students use a variety of multimedia resources to analyze the geographic, political, social, economic, and religious structures of the civilizations of Mesopotamia.
Working in small groups, students will work produce sections of an historical newspaper or journal for publication in democratic Athens. Using the resources of this Web site (as well as books and other resources listed in the Research Links & Resources Page) pick an approximate date and research stories for your newspaper. This section has been tailored for a newspaper about Athens during the time of Pericles, because of the greater amount of information available for that period. However, with some adaptation and additional research it would be possible to compile newspapers for early or later periods.
Students will read and discuss the origins and functions of political parties and create a party platform to address political issues that are likely to arise during a national election.
Students learn about life in Babylonia through the lens of Hammurabi's Code. This lesson is designed to extend world history curricula on Mesopotamia and to give students a more in-depth view of life in Babylonia during the time of Hammurabi.
This lesson is to introduce students to the Islamic religion and the spread of Islam. The overarching goal is for students to find the commonality in the monotheisms and gain an appreciation and tolerance for each religion.
In this lesson, students will participate in short mock arguments, with commentary from the judges, on a similar fact scenario presented under three different legal ancient regimes – Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Greek.
For this activity, students read 3 laws from the Justinian Code and think about what they tell about the Byzantine Empire. Students summarize each document before moving on to answer questions that are provided.
This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 6th Grade Social Studies.
This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 6th Grade Social Studies.
In this lesson, students will analyze the Grimm fairy tale, Rumpelstiltskin, and determine if a breach of contract occurred. Students will be able to clearly define justice, contract, and responsibility. Students will be able to identify specific abuses of power and authority. Students will evaluate behaviors of individuals’ authority, power and responsibility.
During this unit students will examine civilizations from around the globe to examine similarities and differences from various cultures. A key component of this unit will be to identify areas of innovation to understand how they led to the advancement of the society as a whole.
In this activity, students will determine the similarities between three early river valley civilizations - Mesopotamia, India, and China - focusing on government/laws, religion, and social structure. Students will write an essay using examples from all three civilizations.