Social Studies...
In sixth grade, social studies is an internet based, twenty-first century, approach to individualize and personalize learning for all students. Students complete country studies of Brazil, Japan, South Africa, France, and a country of choice, to demonstrate mastery of quarterly learning targets With each country, students learn the environment and geography, migration and immigration, economics, and globalization. Click on the button below to view the learning targets for each quarter.
Quarterly Learning Targets
Quarter 1: Theme: Environment and Geography
Quarter 2: Migration and Immigration
Quarter 3: Theme: Economics
Quarter 4: Theme: Globalization
- Determine location using hemisphere, continent, latitude and longitude
- Identify the physical, economic, and political characteristics of a region
- Determine historical, cultural, linguistic, and religious characteristics of a region
- Recognize how various resources such as maps, globes, geospatial technology and other geographic tools can be used to determine location
Quarter 2: Migration and Immigration
- Determine the factors that influence the migration of people
- Determine cause and effect relationship between human actions and the environment
- Recognize how ideas and products are influenced by global connections
- Provide evidence to show cause and effect related to migration of people, ideas, and products
- Culminating Activity – produce and present an informational paper, pamphlet, PowerPoint, display board educating classmates about a chosen country using essential skills and social science themes of migration and immigration
Quarter 3: Theme: Economics
- Demonstrate an understanding of economics
- Identify a region’s available resources and how they are used
- Determine how the use and distribution of the resources in a region impacts lifestyle
- Demonstrate the influences of production, distribution, and consumption of resources
Quarter 4: Theme: Globalization
- Demonstrate an understanding of globalization
- Identify global connections that affect the region
- Determine persisting issues that arise from global conflict and cooperation
- Determine actions to resolve global issues in a region