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Grade 6 Social Studies Unit 2

 First Humans Through Neolithic Revolution in the Eastern Hemisphere

Unit description: In this unit, students will study the first humans through the Neolithic Revolution in the Eastern Hemisphere. The unit builds on the geographic themes of Unit 1 and students will gather evidence about a group of people and how they lived at a particular time making judgments about the Neolithic Revolution’s technological advances in agriculture and domestication of animals. In this unit students will develop skills to gather, interpret and use evidence and use chronological and geographic reasoning.

Standards

  • Standards: 2, 3; Themes: MOV, TCC, GEO, ECO, TECH

Essential Questions and Big Ideas

  • BI: The Neolithic Revolution was a turning point in human history.
  • How did the geography of an area and the available resources of these areas affect where human populations settled?
    • Human populations that settled along rivers, in rainforests, along coastlines, in deserts, and in mountains made use of the resources and the environment around them in developing distinct ways of life.
  • How do artifacts and archaeological features help us understand how early peoples?
    • Early peoples in the Eastern Hemisphere are often studied by analyzing artifacts and archaeological features.
    • Archaeologists engage in digs and study artifacts and features in a particular location to gather evidence about a group of people and how they lived at a particular time.
  • What major advances made the Neolithic Revolution so remarkable?
    • The Neolithic Revolution was marked by technological advances in agriculture and domestication of animals that allowed people to form semi-sedentary and sedentary settlements.
  • How do historians identify turning points in history?
    • Historians use archaeological and other types of evidence to investigate patterns in history and identify turning points. A turning point can be an event, era, and/or development in history that has brought about significant social, cultural, ecological, political, or economic change.

Prerequisite Skills

This unit is a study of the First Humans Through the Neolithic Revolution. This unit represents unifying themes of social studies – Human Impact in Environment, Impact of Environment on Humans, Scarcity, Conflict. Students develop the skills to explore early human migration patterns and settlements through the use of multiple maps and the examination of various forms of archaeological evidence; compare the use of tools and animals, types of dwellings, art, and social organizations of early peoples, and distinguish between the Paleolithic Age and Neolithic Age; determine if the Neolithic Revolution is a turning point in world history, using various forms of evidence.

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