6th Grade Curriculum

Unit: Westward Expansion (PDF - Printable Version)

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

Westward Expansion Unit Website

 

GSTEQ

History Alive!

Textbook

Supplemental

Assessments

Standards

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

Ch. 16: Manifest Destiny

Ch. 10

Lesson 1 – People on the Move

Lesson 2 – The Nation Grows

Unit: Lewis and Clark (Anne Marie)

Leveled Reader: Flatboat Mondays

Going West, Trials and Tradeoffs

The Tall Tale

 

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. 17: Diverse People’s of the West

 

 

 

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. 16: Manifest Destiny

Ch. 17: Diverse People’s of the West

Ch. 10

Lesson 2 – The Nation Grows

 

 

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. 16: Manifest Destiny

 

Ch. 10

Lesson 1 – People on the Move

 

 

 

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:

Play – Diverse People of the West (Quest for resources)

Paula’s Take Home Test – (Why live and move – The way they live)