Spring Break April 14-18

Social Studies

Windham Central Supervisory Union

C3 Social Studies: Grade 6 Scope & Sequence

World Regional Studies

● 7 Continent Exploration--Location,

Culture, Regions, People, Climate,

Current Events

● Human Migration

7 Continents:

Physical Features: oceans, mountains,

peninsula, tundra, archipelago, rivers,

deserts, lakes, cities, etc.

Location: Relative & absolute, world time

zones

Political: Major countries and capitals

Use other kinds of maps (e.g. landforms,

Climate, population, etc.) to identify

characteristics of a region and impacts

(e.g. impact of population density)

Five themes of geography including

location, place, human/environmental

interaction, movement (of people, goods

and ideas), and region.

Westward Expansion

A significant push toward the west coast of North America began in the 1810s. It was intensified by the belief in manifest destiny, federally issued Indian removal acts, and economic promise. Pioneers traveled to Oregon and California using a network of trails leading west. In 1893 historian Frederick Jackson Turner declared the frontier closed, citing the 1890 census as evidence, and with that, the period of westward expansion ended.

We will explore resources to learn more about what happened between 1810 and 1893, as immigrants, American Indians, United States citizens, and freed slaves moved west.

The Great Depression

History holds many economic lessons. The Great Depression, in particular, is an event that provides the opportunity to teach and learn a great deal about economics. You're studying the economic reasons that the Depression took place, the factors that helped it come to an end, or the impact on Americans who lived through it. The Great Depression also allows us to study human resiliency.

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