How to learn Grade 6: Social studies
Rhode Island academic standards: Social studies, Grade 6
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1. Content Standards · Argue the impacts of the five major world religions on the development of societies and cultures through time.
- The world contains many cultures, traditions: 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
2. Content Standards · Argue the impacts of the establishment of major empires, smaller urban-based societies, and the ways they interacted with surrounding peoples.
- Towns & Trade: The growth of medieval towns: markets, guilds, the merchant class; how towns won charters of self-governance; the shift from purely rural to partly urban life
3. Content Standards · Analyze the development of early cities, states, and empires, and the role of trade between the entities.
- Egyptian Timelines and Maps: Read and construct historical timelines — place Ancient Egyptian periods, pharaohs, and key events on a timeline relative to each other and to the present day; interpret maps showing the Nile delta, trade routes, and the location of key sites
4. Content Standards · Explain the scale of time from today back to early humans.
- Vocabulary: historical thinking: 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