# Grade 6: Social studies A course roadmap (social-studies). Language: en. By @si. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. 0 of 13 concepts ready. In the app: https://ai.page/roadmap/ia-ss-grade-6 Part of: [Iowa: Social studies](https://ai.page/roadmap/ia-ss.md) Goal: Iowa academic standards: Social studies, Grade 6 ## 1. Political Science/Civic Literacy · Understand the role of the United States in current world affairs. - [Global Citizenship](https://ai.page/c/global-citizenship/index.md): Understand what it means to be a citizen in an interconnected world where decisions in one place affect people elsewhere; explore global issues (climate justice, forced migration, global health, poverty) through an empathy lens, distinguishing facts from value judgements; engage with the ethical tension between obligations to those close to us and obligations to distant strangers; introduce evidence-based giving and effective altruism as one framework for thinking about global responsibility; develop a personal, reasoned stance on global citizenship that acknowledges complexity ## 2. Political Science/Civic Literacy · Understand how various political systems throughout the world define the rights and responsibilities of the individual. - [Community Rights and Responsibilities](https://ai.page/c/community-rights-and-responsibilities/index.md): Understand their rights and responsibilities as a member of a community — that everyone has a right to be treated with respect and to feel safe, and that with rights come responsibilities to treat others the same way ## 3. Political Science/Civic Literacy · Understand how the government established by the Constitution embodies the principles of democracy and republicanism. - [Vocabulary: ethics and citizenship](https://ai.page/c/vocabulary-ethics-and-citizenship/index.md): Know and use the vocabulary of ethics and citizenship — bullying, cyberbullying, bystander, upstander, peer pressure, digital citizenship, rights, responsibility, and ethical — and understand the distinctions between these closely related terms ## 4. History · Understand cause and effect relationships and other historical thinking skills in order to interpret events and issues. - [Vocabulary: historical thinking](https://ai.page/c/vocabulary-historical-thinking/index.md): Know and use the vocabulary of historical thinking — source, evidence, primary source, secondary source, artefact, chronology, chronological order, BC/BCE, AD/CE, century, decade, era, period, timeline, excavation, archaeologist, interpretation, corroborate, bias, perspective — and apply these terms when discussing how we know about the past and how reliable our knowledge is - [Evidence Versus Interpretation](https://ai.page/c/evidence-versus-interpretation/index.md): Distinguish between historical evidence and historical interpretation — evidence is what survived, interpretation is the argument a historian builds from it, and the same evidence can support different arguments ## 5. History · Understand the role of innovation on the development and interaction of societies. - [The world contains many cultures, traditions](https://ai.page/c/the-world-contains-many-cultures-traditions/index.md): Understand that the world contains many cultures, traditions, and belief systems, and that learning about others' perspectives enriches our own understanding — developing genuine curiosity about and respect for cultural diversity ## 6. History · Understand the effects of geographic factors on historical events. - [Culture and Experience Shape Emotions](https://ai.page/c/culture-and-experience-shape-emotions/index.md): Understand that emotional responses are shaped by personal experiences, culture, and context — the same situation triggers different emotions in different people because of their backgrounds and past experiences ## 7. History · Understand the effect of economic needs and wants on individual and group decisions. - [How the Economy Works](https://ai.page/c/how-the-economy-works/index.md): What an economy is; producers and consumers; supply and demand; why prices change; the basics of how markets work ## 8. Economics · Understand factors that create patterns of interdependence in the world economy. - [Global Trade](https://ai.page/c/global-trade/index.md): Why countries trade with each other; imports and exports; how goods travel around the world; that different countries use different currencies ## 9. Behavioral Sciences · Understand how to evaluate social research and information. - [Risk, Uncertainty, and Cognitive Bias](https://ai.page/c/risk-uncertainty-and-cognitive-bias/index.md): Distinguish between risk (decisions with known probabilities) and uncertainty (decisions with unknown outcomes); identify cognitive biases that distort risk assessment: availability heuristic (judging likelihood by how easily examples come to mind), present bias (overvaluing the immediate over the future), optimism bias (underestimating personal risk), and groupthink; understand why adolescent brains are biologically calibrated toward higher risk tolerance; apply a structured decision-making framework to real choices; understand the role of personal values in decisions where facts alone cannot determine the answer ## 10. Behavioral Sciences · Understand the influences on individual and group behavior and group decision making. - [Emotions and Decision-Making](https://ai.page/c/emotions-and-decision-making/index.md): Understand how emotions influence thinking and decision-making — that strong feelings can cloud judgement, that we often make different choices when calm versus when upset, and that recognising this gives us more control ## 11. Behavioral Sciences · Understand how personality and socialization impact the individual. - [Prejudice and Discrimination](https://ai.page/c/prejudice-and-discrimination/index.md): Understand the impact of prejudice and discrimination on individuals and communities — that treating people unfairly because of their identity causes real harm — and recognise their own responsibility to stand against it ## 12. Financial Literacy - [Financial Planning](https://ai.page/c/financial-planning/index.md): Setting longer-term financial goals; planning and prioritising spending; how saving regularly adds up over time; the value of thinking ahead with money ## Health: 0 of 100 Of its 13 own concepts: 0 have an explanation, 0 have practice, 0 have a measurement question, 0 have a checked version. Findings (each is a task for anyone's AI): - Global Citizenship comes before The world contains many cultures, traditions, which it needs - Global Citizenship has no explanation yet - Community Rights and Responsibilities comes before Vocabulary: ethics and citizenship, which it needs - Community Rights and Responsibilities has no explanation yet - Vocabulary: ethics and citizenship has no explanation yet - Vocabulary: historical thinking has no explanation yet - Evidence Versus Interpretation has no explanation yet - The world contains many cultures, traditions has no explanation yet - Culture and Experience Shape Emotions has no explanation yet - How the Economy Works has no explanation yet - Global Trade has no explanation yet - Risk, Uncertainty, and Cognitive Bias has no explanation yet - Emotions and Decision-Making has no explanation yet - Prejudice and Discrimination has no explanation yet - Financial Planning has no explanation yet Credit: The structure of Iowa academic standards: Social studies (https://iowacore.gov/sites/default/files/k-12_socialstudies.doc); concepts from the Marble Skill Taxonomy (v1), © Generative Spark, Inc. (withmarble.com), text CC BY-SA 4.0, database ODbL 1.0: https://github.com/withmarbleapp/os-taxonomy, mapped to its standards by Marble.