Subject: - Currituck County Schools



|Subject: Social Studies |Timeframe Needed for Completion: 4 Weeks |

|Grade Level: 6th | |

|Unit 1 Title: Landforms to Unearthing the Past |Grading Period: 1st |

|Big Idea/Theme: Geography Tools and Archeology Skills |

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|Understandings: |

|Map Skills |

|Landforms |

|Physical Environment |

|Archeology and Archeologist role unearthing history |

|Essential Standards: |Essential Questions: |

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|History: 1.3, 2.2, 2.3 |Why is it important to know how to locate a place on a map? |

|Geography: 1.1, 1.4, 2.1, 2.2 |How did the physical geography of a location influence the lives of early humans? |

|Economics: 1.1 |How do we know what we know? |

|Civics & Governance: 1.4 |Why is it important for archaeologists to “dig up” the past? |

|Culture: 1.1 |What are two examples of objects used by ancient people that are still used today? |

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|Essential Skills/Vocabulary: |Assessment Tasks: |

|Essential Skills | |

|Understand how to read and recognize graphs, charts, diagrams, and other parts of a map. |Projects, journals, foldables |

|Use maps, globes, and artifacts to analyze the physical and cultural landscapes of the world to |Create latitude & longitude bookmarks. |

|interpret the past. |Play a landform Jeopardy game. |

|Understand how the past links us together. |Geocaching |

|Explain how and why civilizations used and modified environments to suit the needs of the people. |Design your own island. Include a specific number of landforms, compute the proper scale for |

| |your poster board and find the appropriate coordinates to place your island. Include a written |

|Understand past archaeological discoveries of ancient artifacts to prove the existence of |narrative describing it all. |

|prehistoric man. |Create a graphic organizer classifying prime settlement locations. |

| |Write a journal entry as if you were an archaeologist who had just discovered an ancient |

| |artifact. |

| |Create an Archeology Dig with a shoe box |

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|Vocabulary | |

|globe, hemisphere, latitude, longitude, relative location, absolute location, map key, cardinal | |

|directions, compass rose, intermediate directions, scale, relief, elevation, contour line, elevation| |

|profile | |

|archaeologists, hunter-gather, civilization, adaptation, migration, | |

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