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 6.2.3

Identify the most historically significant inventions and innovations from Ca. 500 C.E.–1500 C.E. (for example, printing press/moveable type, astronomy, medicine), and argue their ongoing importance.

• 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.
• Printing Press Simulation
  This is the plan for a printing press simulation. This simulation requires a customizable stamp. Students will need lots of small pieces of paper. This is a race and the teach also participates: Have each student write positive affirmations to each of the other 30 kids in the class and write their name on each piece of paper because they are writing the same thing 30 times this should take a while. Teacher enters the competition a few minutes into the simulation with the customized stamp and then stamps the same message to each of the 30 students. The stamp is much faster than writing and shows why the printing press was such an marvelous invention.
• Renaissance 'Movers & Shakers.'
  Investigate and identify the Renaissance 'Movers and Shakers' and their contributions.
• Renaissance 'Movers and Shakers'
  In this lesson, students will investigate and identify Renaissance 'movers and shakers' and their contributions. They will conduct research, create multimedia presentations, and design class activities centered around an important Renaissance artist, thinker, and/or scientist. Research resources and student handouts are included in the lesson plan.The lesson is intended to take about 5 class periods of 45 minutes each.The lesson is based on a lesson originally created by Diana Payne and Dirk Sprunt. 

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