6th Grade Curriculum

Unit: American Revolution (PDF - Printable Version)

Highlighted Questions - Thematic Essential Questions focused on during this unit.

American Revolution Unit Website

 

GSTEQ

History Alive!

Textbook

Supplemental

Assessments

Standards

1. Why do people live and move where they do?

 

 

 

 

RIGSE: 5-1 – Many ways Earth’s people are interconnected

RIGSE: 5-2 – Interconnected World

RIGSE: 5-3 – Choices Interconnected world

RIGSE HP 2

NSH Era 3:1, 2, 3 (Proclamation)

NSH Era 4: 1,2
NSH Era 5: 1, 2

NSH Era 6: 1,2,4

2. Why do people live the way they do?

 

Ch. 8 (Lesson 2- Life During the War)

Tradebook:

My Brother Sam is Dead

Green Mountain Hero

The Fighting Ground

RAFT

RIGSE G&C 1-4
RIGSE HP 1-3

NSH Era 3: 1, 2, 3
NSH Era 4: 1,2,4
NSH Era 5: 1,2
NSH Era 6: 1,2,3,4

3. How and why do human societies organize the way they do?

 

 

 

 

RIGSE – G&C 1-2, 4

NSH Era 3: 1,2,3
NSH Era 4: 1,2,3,4

NSH Era 5: 1,2,3
NSH Era 6: 1,2,4

4. How does technology affect people’s lives?

 

 

 

 

RIGSE – G&C 5

RIGSE – HP1

NSH Era 6: 1,3

NSH Era 4: 2
NSH Era 5: 2

5. How has conflict and cooperation shaped human history?

Ch. 13: The Revolutionary War

Ch. 8 (Lesson 3 – War in the North)

Ch. 8 (Lesson 4 – Winning the War)

 

 

RIGSE – G&C 1,3,5

RIGSE – HP1,2,3

NSH Era 3: 1,2,3
NSH Era 4: 1,2

 

6. How has the quest for resources affected human history?

Ch. 13: The Revolutionary War

Ch. 8 (Lesson 4 – Winning the War)

 

 

RIGSE – G&C 1,5
RIGSE – HP 1,2,3

NSH Era 3: 1,2
NSH Era 4: 1,2

NSH Era 5: 1, 2,3
NSH Era 6: 1, 2, 3,4

7. How do we know what we know about human history?

 

 

 

 

RIGSE – HP 1,2,3

NSH Era (All)
HTS – 3,4

8. Why do civilizations rise & decline?

 

 

 

 

RIGSE – G&C 1,5
RIGSE – HP 1,2,3

NSH Era 3: 1,2,3

NSH Era 4: 1,2,3

NSH Era 5: 1,2,3
NSH Era 6: 1,2,4

 

Assessment Ideas?:

Biography – JoAnn and Anne Marie