🌎 6th grade Social Studies: how to help at home

What each unit covers

1. 🌐World Maps & Globes

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.