Social Studies Curriculum - Trimester #1:

• Becoming a Social Scientists and Geography Essentials: 

• We launch our study of world regions building the skills and tools to investigate civilizations past and present. We try out the many different lenses that can be used as a social scientist to study a place and its culture - history, geography, economics, religion, government, and more. 

• We develop our skills with different maps to become familiar with the world's geography. All of this helps us begin to think about how it is that where we live affects how we live and the culture that develops in a given time and place.

• A Cultural Hearth - Southwest Asia and Ancient Mesopotamia:

• With our new social scientist skills, we explore cultural hearths - the "birthplaces" where the first civilizations began. Using maps and timelines, we zoom in on two of the world's oldest cultures: Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt. 

• We investigate how waterways and other features of their geography were vital to shaping their societies thousands of years ago and how they continue to influence the modern Middle East and North Africa today.

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