Route 66

Grade: 6th

Standards:

• 6.SP1.2 Analyze connections among events and developments in various geographic and cultural contexts.

• 6.G1.1 Use and construct maps, graphs, and other representations to explain relationships between locations of places and regions.

  • Key concepts include major landforms and water bodies, countries, cities, ecosystems, climate, languages, religion, economic systems, governmental systems, population patterns, disease, trade routes, and settlement patterns

• 6.G2.1 Compare diverse ways people or groups of people have impacted, modified, or adapted to the environment of the Eastern Hemisphere.

  • Key concepts include but are not limited to hunter-gatherer communities, human settlement, Neolithic Revolution, irrigation and farming, domestication of animals, and influence of climate and seasons

• 6.G3.1 Analyze how cultural and environmental characteristics affect the distribution and movement of people, goods, and ideas.

  • Key concepts include but are not limited to language, land and sea transportation and trade routes

• 6.H1.1 Compare the development and characteristics of historical cultures and civilizations from different global regions within designated time periods.

Objectives:

Students will be able to build their knowledge on the historic Route 66 and learn in depth about one state that they will explore. They will be able to present a powerpoint of their research from the state of their group.

Introduction Activity:

• The teacher will introduce themselves to the students with names and other basic information.

• They will then explain the game, each person will describe themselves in five different ways according to their fingers. Have students introduce with names before starting the game.

• Thumb-favorite food, pointer finger-hobbies, middle finger-favorite school subject, ring finger-number and names of pets, pinky-best movie they have seen

What they know on Route 66:

• Use butcher paper with “Route 66” in the middle

• Allow students to write what they know about topic

Route 66 Quest:

• Introduce the assignment and the state group is going to be exploring

• Share goal for lesson and explain roles that need to be covered

  • Historians: You are to research the years of Route 66 from inception to closing. Identify at least 3-5 facts that will add to the story of history of the Route 66 in your state.

  • Geographers: You are to map out in your state the route to places you will visit. You are to locate their positions on the state map. You are to also help your group examine the various American Indian tribes.

  • Tour guides: You will choose 2 places in the state to visit and 1 place to stay overnight. Provide pricing and information on each landmark.

  • Drivers: You will determine, the price of gas to travel. After price is determined, convert using 1950 prices in your state. You will also calculate time of travel using today's speed limit and the speed limit of the 1950's. (T=D/R)

Answer any questions and guide students along when needed

Closure:

• Students will write something they learned on a small piece of paper

• They will fold them up and we will pick randomly from a container and read what they wrote anonymously

• If students want to explain they can (doesn’t have to be the one they wrote)