Social+Studies+Level+6

= Essential Learnings and Indicators of Success =

EL 1. Students recognize and explain how the geography of a civilization influences the behavior, economics, settlement patterns and determines its characteristics.

 * 1) Students will be able to locate and identify political units, regions and physical features of ancient civilizations.
 * 2) Students will explain how specific political and geographic features influenced the settlement patterns of a specific civilization
 * 3) Students will analyze the various ways ancient civilizations produce, distribute, and exchange goods and services.
 * 4) Students will be able to predict the economic choices made by various ancient civilizations based on the scarcity and abundance of their resources.
 * 5) Students will explain how the geography of a specific civilization determines the use of land including agricultural developments, mining, and

EL 2. Students will explain the development and role of social classes within each era or civilization.

 * 1) Students will reconstruct through presentations, writing,discussions and performances the emergence and role of each social class within a society.
 * 2) Students will compare the development of social classes within each civilization.
 * 3) Students will understand the necessity of social classes and explain the role of each within a society.

EL 3. Students will compare and contrast various forms of government and explain their evolution through time.

 * 1) Students will explain the correlation between social levels, power, and wealth.
 * 2) Students will describe the governments that developed in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, and the Middle Ages.
 * 3) Students will be able to describe the progression from monarchy to democracy in ancient Greece.
 * 4) Students can explain the relationship between types of governments and social classes that develop in a civilization as well as the success.

EL 4. Students analyze how technology evolved and impacted the development of ancient societies.

 * 1) Students will be able to identify prominent technological developments that have endured from Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, and European Middles Ages. Examples: Algebra, math, wheel, irrigation, weaponry, medicine, architecture, tools, transportation, and how these affected what these societies contributed to the world.

EL 5. Students will distinguish between various religions and philosophical ideas comparing and contrasting their characteristics.

 * 1) Students will understand the role of religion and philosophy in government and how thier ideas are interwoven with the ancient governments of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome.
 * 2) Students will define and compare the characterisitics of various religions and philosophies of ancient civilizations.

EL 6. Students will classify, illustrate, identify, compare, and evaluate the artistic and cultural achievements of various civilizations.

 * 1) Students will be able to identify the significance of specific artiistic contributions of each of the ancient civilizations.
 * 2) Students will be able to describe art work as a record of human experience, interpret art work using criteria of art history.