How to learn Grade 6: Social studies
New Mexico academic standards: Social studies, Grade 6
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1. Sixth Grade · Human-Environmental Interactions and Sustainability
- How the Economy Works: What an economy is; producers and consumers; supply and demand; why prices change; the basics of how markets work
2. Sixth Grade · Economic Decision Making
- Global Trade: Why countries trade with each other; imports and exports; how goods travel around the world; that different countries use different currencies
3. Sixth Grade · Diversity and Identity
- Prejudice and Discrimination: 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
4. Sixth Grade · Historical Change, Continuity, Context, and Reconciliation
- Crime & Punishment: How justice worked in medieval times: trial by ordeal, trial by combat, the role of the sheriff; punishments including stocks, pillory, and dungeons; how different it was from modern justice
- Greek and Roman Legacy Today: Evaluate the lasting contributions of Greek and Roman civilisations to modern life — democracy, law, language (Latin roots), architecture (columns, arches, domes), sport (Olympics), philosophy, literature, and theatre — and understand that Greek ideas reached us through Rome, and then through later European civilisations, in a chain of cultural transmission
5. Sixth Grade · Roles and Responsibilities of a Civic Life
- Community Rights and Responsibilities: 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
6. Sixth Grade · Take Informed Action
- Identity and Belonging in Adolescence: Understand that adolescence involves active construction of identity, leading to emotional complexity around questions of 'who am I?'; explore the emotional dynamics of belonging to multiple groups simultaneously (family, peer group, cultural or religious identity); understand social comparison and its intensification through social media; recognise that identity is not fixed and that uncertainty about identity is normal, not a sign of failure; develop language for navigating emotions tied to group membership and personal values