6th Grade History Unit Resources

Early Human Communities

CA History-Social Science 6.1:

Students describe what is known through archaeological studies of the early physical and cultural development of humankind from the Paleolithic era to the agricultural revolution.

CA Media Arts Standard (MA:Cr1.1.6a):

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work through creative exploration.

CA Computer Science Standard (6-8.DA.8):

Represent data using multiple encoding schemes (e.g., images, numbers, text, audio, video).

ISTE Student Standard 1.6 – Creative Communicator:

Students communicate clearly and express themselves creatively using the platforms, tools, styles, formats, and digital media appropriate to their goals.

Ancient Egypt & Mesopotamia

History-Social Science Standard – CA HSS 6.2

Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the early civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Kush.

Media Arts Standard – CA MA.6.CR2

Select, organize, and design images and words to make visually clear and compelling presentations.

CA Computer Science Standard (6-8.DA.8)

Represent data using multiple encoding schemes (e.g., images, numbers, text, audio, video).

ISTE Student Standard – 1.6 Creative Communicator

Students communicate clearly and express themselves creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats, and digital media appropriate to their goals.

The Hebrew Kingdoms

MS-LS1-2 Develop and use a model to describe the function of a cell as a whole and the ways parts of cells contribute to the function.  

MS-LS1-4 Use argument based on empirical evidence and scientific reasoning to support an explanation for how characteristic animal behaviors and specialized plant structures affect the probability of successful reproduction of animals and plants respectively

MS-LS1-5 Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how environmental and genetic factors influence the growth of organisms.

MS-LS3-2  Develop and use a model to describe why asexual reproduction results in offspring with identical genetic information and sexual reproduction results in offspring with genetic variation.

Ancient China & India

MS-PS3-3. Apply scientific principles to design, construct, and test a device that either minimizes or maximizes thermal energy transfer.

MS-PS3-4. Plan an investigation to determine the relationships among the energy transferred, the type of matter, the mass, and the change in the average kinetic energy of the particles as measured by the temperature of the sample.

MS-PS3-5. Construct, use, and present arguments to support the claim that when the kinetic energy of an object changes, energy is transferred to or from the object.

Ancient Greece

MS-ESS2-6. Develop and use a model to describe how unequal heating and rotation of the Earth cause patterns of atmospheric and oceanic circulation that determine regional climates.

Ancient Rome 

MS-ESS2-4 Develop a model to describe the cycling of water through Earth's systems driven by energy from the sun and the force of gravity.

MS-ESS2-5 Collect data to provide evidence for how the motions and complex interactions of air masses results in changes in weather conditions