Social Studies - 6th Grade (2024)
Lesson Plans

Strand 2: Globalization

Students will compare how the transformation and changes of the post-classical era (Ca. 500 C.E.–1500 C.E.) set in motion the expansion of knowledge through science, language, writing, religion, and technological innovations. They will understand how this created and encouraged a global interconnectedness among distant societies and civilizations that ripples into modern history.

Compelling Questions:

• How do ideas and belief systems unite or divide groups of people?
• How did technological and scientific developments of the time promote literacy and the exchange of ideas that continue to this day?
• Make a case for the most significant technological or scientific development from the Middle Ages or the Renaissance.
• How does immigration play a role in globalization of ideas, goods, or knowledge?

Standard 6.2.1

Summarize key tenets of the major world religions (including Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Sikhism, Taoism).

• Black Death Math/Economics
  Examine relationships between significant events and ideas and their influence on systems of government (e.g. the rise of the merchant class, the Magna Carta, the impact of the Black Death, Germanic tribes, feudalism, manors, city-states).
• Crispin/Medieval Manor
  The novel Crispin, by Avi, is one of the best to demonstrate daily life of different social classes and the influence of the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages.
• Sacred Journeys with Bruce Feiler
  This page offers students a visual look at comparative religion as the author travels to and records six sacred pilgrimages. Also includes an interactive map.

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