🌎 6th grade Social Studies

Units

1. Unit 1

   ⏳Time & Evidence

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

   TEKS student expectation: 6.19(A); 6.19(B) · counting years in BCE and CE, artifacts, and primary and secondary sources

2. Unit 2

   🐪Trade Routes & Beliefs

   The Silk Road and Indian Ocean trade, how religions and ideas spread, the Islamic Golden Age, medieval Europe and the Magna Carta, up to about 1450.

   TEKS student expectation: 6.15(A); 6.15(D); 6.17(A) · how trade and travel spread goods, ideas and religions between cultures

3. Unit 3

   📈Economies of the World

   The factors of production, free enterprise, socialist, communist and traditional economies, agricultural, retail, manufacturing and service industries, measures such as GDP, GDP per capita, literacy and life expectancy, and trade between countries.

   TEKS student expectation: 6.4(A); 6.4(B); 6.6(A); 6.6(B); 6.6(C); 6.7(A); 6.7(B); 6.7(C); 6.8(A); 6.8(B) · factors of production, economic systems including free enterprise, kinds of industry, measures of development and trade

4. Unit 4

   🏛️Governments & Citizens

   Limited and unlimited governments, rule by one, few or many, how China, Germany, India and Russia organize government, the origins of democracy in ancient Greece, human rights abuses, and the rights and duties of citizens in different societies. Described factually.

   TEKS student expectation: 6.9(A); 6.9(B); 6.9(C); 6.10(A); 6.10(B); 6.10(C); 6.11(A); 6.11(B); 6.12(A); 6.12(B) · limited and unlimited governments, how societies organize government, and citizenship in different societies

5. Unit 5

   🕌Cultures & Beliefs

   What defines a culture and a culture region, multicultural societies, cultural diffusion, the basic institutions of every society, the arts, and the meaning of religious holidays and observances named in the Texas standards (Christmas, Easter, Ramadan, the hajj, Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah, Diwali and Vaisakhi), described factually.

   TEKS student expectation: 6.1(A); 6.13(A); 6.13(B); 6.13(D); 6.14(A); 6.15(A); 6.16(A); 6.16(C); 6.17(A); 6.17(B) · culture traits and regions, multicultural societies, institutions, cultural diffusion, the arts, and religious observances

6. Unit 6

   🛰️Science, Technology & Change

   Discoveries and inventions that shaped the world, how resources and political decisions affect technology, how communication and transportation spread cultures, and how people adapt to and change their environment.

   TEKS student expectation: 6.5(A); 6.5(C); 6.15(B); 6.15(C); 6.18(A); 6.18(B); 6.18(C) · scientific discoveries and inventions, technology and cultural change, and changing the environment

7. Unit 7

   🌐World Maps & Globes

   Latitude and longitude, hemispheres, kinds of maps and projections, continents, oceans and major landforms.

   TEKS student expectation: 6.3(C); 6.19(C) · locating major physical features on maps and globes, and interpreting maps

8. Unit 8

   🗺️World Regions

   The countries of the world's regions, why people live where they do, migration, population density, climates, and how people adapt to and change their environment.

   TEKS student expectation: 6.3(A); 6.3(B); 6.3(D); 6.5(B) · population patterns, migration, countries of each world region, and adapting to the environment

9. Unit 9

   🔎Sources & Points of View

   Telling primary and secondary sources apart, facts and opinions, points of view about an issue, spotting bias, and judging whether a source is valid, credible and up to date.

   TEKS student expectation: 6.19(A); 6.19(D); 6.19(F); 6.21(E) · primary and secondary sources, points of view, and judging sources for validity, credibility, bias and accuracy