Rise of Greenspire Middle School
September 21- November 3
Driving Question
What does it take to be an empire?
Social Studies
Project Overview
How did ancient empires rise? What are the common traits past empires in the shared? Students will explore these ideas be studying past empires and then growing their own. They will start in small city-state groups within pods and then slowly grow into civilizations. By the end of the project empires.
Public Products
Group
Civilization encyclopedia entry describing their civilizations: geography, customs, achievements, government, economics and society.
Individual
Recipe for creating an empire. Students will create a recipe describing the ingrediants that must be in place to create an empire. They will explain the steps involved as societies grow and expand.
Project Standards
Describe the characteristics that classical civilizations share.
Using historic and modern maps, locate three major empires of this era, describe their geographic characteristics including physical features and climates, and propose a generalization about the relationship between geographic characteristics and the development of early empires.
Assess the importance of Greek ideas about democracy and citizenship in the development of Western political thought and institutions.
Describe major achievements from Indian, Chinese, Mediterranean, African, Southwest and Central Asian, Mesoamerican, and Andean civilizations.
Use historic and modern maps to locate and describe trade networks linking empires in the classical era.