6th Grade Curriculum

Unit: Industrial Revolution (PDF - Printable Version)

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

Industrial Revolution Unit Website

 

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Assessments

Standards

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

Ch. 20 “Industrialization and Modern America”

 

Nystrom Atlas pg.70-71: “Immigration Swells the Workforce” Pg. 78-9 “Becoming an Industrial Nation” Pg. 82-3 “Immigration and the Growth of Cities”

 

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. 20 “Industrialization and Modern America”

Ch. 15: Lesson 2 “Immigrants in America”

 

 

 

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?

Ch. 20 “Industrialization and Modern America”

Ch. 15 Lesson 1: “Inventions”

Lesson 3 “Growing Cities”

Nystrom Atlas pg. 72-3 “Railroads Transform the West”

 

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?

 

 

 

 

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. 20 “Industrialization and Modern America”

Ch. 15: Lesson 2 “Immigrants in America”

 

 

 

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