6th Grade Social Studies

2024-2025 Supply List

• 2 Composition Notebooks

• 1 Plastic GREEN Folder

• Pencils

• 2 Highlighters

• Wired Headphones

• Colored Pencils or Crayons

• Student Planner (Highly Recommended)

Optional items for the Classroom

• Tissues

• Candy

• Notebook Paper

• Copy Paper

Class Overview

This course is aligned with the 2020 South Carolina Social Studies College and Career Ready Standards for World Civilizations. Students will study world civilizations to uncover trends from prehistory to present day. Instruction utilizes the historical thinking skills developed for grade six. These historical thinking skills are aligned with the Profile of the South Carolina Graduate which focuses on world-class knowledge, world-class skills, and life and career characteristics. Students will acquire content knowledge through reading and analyzing multiple primary and secondary sources, group discussions, and whole class instruction. They will apply the historical thinking skills to the acquired knowledge, and then design and communicate their interpretation of the past. This process as a whole is known as inquiry. Rather than focusing on the memorization of facts with one correct answer, inquiry differs because students are evaluated on their ability to make a claim and support it with reliable evidence from research.