# Grade 6: Social studies

A course roadmap (social-studies). Language: en. By @si. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. 0 of 10 concepts ready. In the app: https://ai.page/roadmap/wi-ss-grade-6

Part of: [Wisconsin: Social studies](https://ai.page/roadmap/wi-ss.md)

Goal: Wisconsin academic standards: Social studies, Grade 6

## 1. Political Science · Fundamentals of Citizenship

- [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
- [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

## 2. History · Patterns change over a period of time

- [Emotional Patterns Over Time](https://ai.page/c/emotional-patterns-over-time/index.md): Reflect on their own emotional patterns over time — noticing recurring triggers, understanding their typical responses, and recognising how their emotional awareness has grown

## 3. History · Effect

- [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

## 4. History · Cause

- [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

## 5. Economics · Role of Government

- [Taxes & Public Services](https://ai.page/c/taxes-and-public-services/index.md): What taxes are and why people pay them; how taxes fund schools, hospitals, roads, and emergency services; that governments decide how to spend tax money

## 6. Economics · Institutions

- [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

## 7. Economics · Choices and Decision-Making

- [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

## 8. Behavioral Sciences · Cultural patterns

- [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

## 9. Behavioral Sciences · Personal identity and empathy

- [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

## Health: 0 of 100

Of its 10 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
- Vocabulary: ethics and citizenship has no explanation yet
- Emotional Patterns Over Time has no explanation yet
- Culture and Experience Shape Emotions has no explanation yet
- Vocabulary: historical thinking has no explanation yet
- Taxes & Public Services has no explanation yet
- How the Economy Works has no explanation yet
- Risk, Uncertainty, and Cognitive Bias has no explanation yet
- The world contains many cultures, traditions has no explanation yet
- Prejudice and Discrimination has no explanation yet

Credit: The structure of Wisconsin academic standards: Social studies (https://dpi.wi.gov/sites/default/files/imce/standards/New%20pdfs/2018_WI_Social_Studies_Standards.pdf); 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.