The Ancient World

Course Description:

Welcome to Sixth Grade Social Studies!

The Social Studies Curriculum in sixth grade incorporates a variety of social sciences and the six strands from the New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards. While the content is primarily driven by the study of history and geography, social studies skills and economics are integrated throughout. Where appropriate, current events are integrated into the curriculum to ensure students have a meaningful understanding of the world around them, and real-world applications are infused to demonstrate the relationship between the social studies and students’ lives. Social studies skills, reading, writing, and study skills are taught throughout the curriculum as students learn to interact with a variety of texts, analyze primary and secondary sources and read and write both fiction and non-fiction texts. Each section of the curriculum begins with a thematic question whose exploration demonstrates the significance of the content, and is followed by the core concepts and understandings that students master through gathering and evaluating sources and developing claims by using the evidence. All students are prepared to communicate their beliefs of historical events accurately through the use of evidence. Further, they are prepared to be informed citizens with the understanding of their civil responsibilities as democratic citizens.