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Social Studies Grade Six

Learning About History
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Grade Six Unit Two Table of Contents

Skills/Abilities

Brainstorm ideas.

Link historical facts and information with sources of information.

Discuss ideas and information.

Organize information about the past on a timeline.

Understand the use of approximate numbers.

Understand the relationships of numbers and events.

Interpretation of History
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Grade Six Unit Two Table of Contents

Skills/Abilities

Participate in group task.

Imagine and discuss.

Identify and analyze artifacts.

Identify a point of view. Express an alternate point of view.

Select statements that express a point of view. Discuss.

Interaction: Pre-contact Indigenous Peoples of the Americas
(Time: pre-1500)
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Grade Six Unit Two Table of Contents

Skills/Abilities

Discuss and describe the natural environment (geographic features, climate, vegetation, wildlife) and relate it to lifestyles of people.

Locate and gather information from various sources.

Organize and share information

Recognize and discuss biased and/or racist statements.

Express alternate points of view.

Interaction: Indigenous Peoples of Western Europe and Africa
(Time: pre-1500)
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Grade Six Unit Two Table of Contents

Skills/Abilities

Discuss and describe the natural environment (geographical features, climate, vegetation) and relate it to lifestyles.

Locate and gather information from various sources.

Organize and share information.

Compare and contrast information.

Interaction: Western Europe Goes Exploring to the Americas
(Time: post-1500)
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Grade Six Unit Two Table of Contents

Skills/Abilities

Use a variety of reference material (including maps, reference books, historical documents).

Participate in group tasks to gather, organize and share information.

Interaction: Europeans Immigrate to the Americas
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Grade Six Unit Two Table of Contents

Skills/Abilities

Read case studies and identify motives and relationships.

Read for information.

Discuss information and ideas.

Interaction: African People are Taken as Slaves to the Americas
(Time: 1500-1800)
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Grade Six Unit Two Table of Contents

Skills/Abilities

Discuss information and ideas.

Find locations on maps, discuss relationships.

Read stories, draw inferences.

Participate in group tasks.

Organize information and ideas in journal writing and on maps, graphs, charts.

Interaction: Many cultures within the Atlantic Region
(Time: Post 1850's)
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Grade Six Unit Two Table of Contents

Skills/Abilities

Locate places on maps.

Read maps for information.

Read story, case studies for information.

Discuss information and ideas.

Compare story to real life situations.

Participate in a group simulation activity and the discussion that follows it.

Participate in class field trip as well as the preparation for it and follow-up activities.

Read news; do some research.

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