🌎 6th grade Social Studies

Units

1. Unit 1

   🌐World Maps & Globes

   Continents and oceans, hemispheres, latitude and longitude, map scale, projections and kinds of maps.

   Learning standard: SS.6.1.18.1; SS.6.1.18.3 · absolute and relative location, and latitude and longitude

2. Unit 2

   🧭World Regions

   Physical and cultural characteristics of world regions, how people adapt to and change their environment, migration, and why geography helps us understand global issues.

   Learning standard: SS.6.1.18.2; SS.6.2.16.1 · the major regions of the Earth, using maps to show their physical features and peoples

3. Unit 3

   ⏳Time & Evidence

   Counting years in BCE and CE, centuries and calendars, artifacts and archaeology, and judging primary and secondary sources about the ancient world.

   Learning standard: SS.6-8.2.3; SS.6-8.2.2 · telling primary from secondary sources and judging where information comes from, and counting time in BCE and CE

4. Unit 4

   🧭Alaska's Physical Regions

   Alaska's physical regions (mountain ranges, the Arctic coastal plain, boreal forest, temperate rainforest and delta lowlands), permafrost, and how Earth's tilt, the sun and the moon give Alaska its long summer days, polar nights and big tides.

   Learning standard: SS.6.1.18.4; SS.6.1.20.1; SS.6.1.20.2 · the physical regions of Alaska, how the local environment affects people, and how the earth, sun, moon, tides and seasons interact

5. Unit 5

   🌋Earthquakes, Volcanoes & Hazards

   Alaska's natural hazards (earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, wildfire, flooding, erosion and avalanches) and human-made ones like oil spills, with the 1964 earthquake, the 1989 oil spill, and how communities prepare and rebuild.

   Learning standard: SS.6.1.16.2; SS.6.1.16.3 · the impact of natural and human-induced hazards on people, and how people respond to disasters past and present

6. Unit 6

   🧑‍🤝‍🧑Peoples of Alaska

   Different explanations of how people came to Alaska (Beringia and oral histories), Alaska Native peoples today, why Russian and European explorers and traders came and what contact meant, and the people who have come since: miners, cannery workers, farmers, soldiers and oil workers.

   Learning standard: SS.6.2.22.1; SS.6.2.23.1; SS.6.2.14.1 · explanations of how people came to Alaska, the reasons for Russian and European contact, and the peoples who have moved to Alaska in the last 200 years

7. Unit 7

   🐟Alaska's Resources & Economy

   Subsistence, barter, sharing and cash economies in Alaska, renewable and nonrenewable resources, why Alaska's location matters to world trade, booms and busts, and how state, local and Tribal governments manage resources for the future.

   Learning standard: SS.6.3.11.1; SS.6.3.16.2; SS.6.3.15.1 · subsistence, barter, sharing and cash economies, how Alaska's location and resources affect the state and the world, and how governments sustain resources

8. Unit 8

   🏛️Local, Tribal & State Government

   How local, Tribal and state governments in Alaska are organized and what each does, boroughs and the Unorganized Borough, Tribal sovereignty, Alaska's three branches and its members of Congress, and the rights and responsibilities of people in the United States.

   Learning standard: SS.6.4.6.1; SS.6.4.9.1; SS.6.4.10.1 · the components and roles of local, Tribal and state governments in Alaska, and the roles and responsibilities of people in the United States

9. Unit 9

   💵Money Choices

   Personal finance for Grade 6: income and expenses, needs and wants, budgets and savings goals, opportunity cost, trade-offs and cost-benefit thinking, interest, debit and credit cards, emergency funds, and planning for costs like winter fuel.

   Learning standard: SS.6.4.12.1; SS.6.4.12.2; SS.6.4.12.3; SS.6.4.12.4 · methods of personal finance, planning informed financial decisions, cost-benefit analysis, trade-offs and opportunity cost, and how choices affect financial security