geography

continent

landform

climate

vegetation

Continents

Shifting Plates

Landforms and Bodies of

Water

Grade 6

World History: Ancient Civilizations

Chapter 1: The Tools of History

Lesson 1: The World's Geography

Objectives

1. Describe the key features of Earth's surface.

2. Explain the five themes of geography.

3. Summarize how humans are affected by their environment.

Vocabulary

Lesson Main Ideas

Themes of Geography Location

Place

Region

Movement

Human-Environment Interaction

How Environment Affects

People

Climate

1. Name three examples of landforms and three examples of bodies of water.

2. How do the five themes of geography help geographers?

3. How does the climate where you live affect your life?

4. What might be the result if the climate of a region suddenly became much colder?

5. Since more people live on Asia than on any other continent, what can you infer about Asia's environment?

6. What do geographers study?

7. What are Earth's largest landmasses and bodies of water called?

8. What are the five themes of geography?

9. Which two geographic themes are most concerned with people?

10. How does climate affect people's lives?

11. How does environment affect people?

Lesson Review

Lesson Summary

longitude

latitude

hemisphere

political map

physical map

thematic map

The Geographer's Tools

Globes

Maps

Grade 6

World History: Ancient Civilizations

Chapter 1: The Tools of History

Lesson 2: How Maps Help Us Study History

Objectives

1. Describe the tools used by geographers to study Earth.

2. Describe the different types of maps geographers use.

3. Trace how maps have changed.

Vocabulary

Lesson Main Ideas

Reading a map

Map Projections

Mercator Projection

Homolosine Projection

Robinson Projection

Hemispheres

The Geographic Grid

Political Maps

Physical Maps

Thematic Maps

Earliest Maps

Maps in the Middle Ages

Today's maps

1. Would you use a map or globe to see a continent's exact shape? Explain why.

2. Describe the three types of maps:

3. Why were European maps in the Middle Ages so inaccurate?

4. Why did European mapmakers in the Middle Ages sometimes leave empty spots on their maps?

5. What impact do you think improved mapmaking had on explorers?

Lesson Review

Lesson Summary

artifact

fossil

hominid

Paleolithic Age

Mesolithic Age

Neolithic Age

Finding Clues in the Past How do archaeologists uncover the story of early peoples?

How do archaeologists work together?

What is important about studying fossils?

Search for Early Humans Who was Lucy?

Grade 6

World History: Ancient Civilizations

Chapter 1: The Tools of History

Lesson 3: How Archaeologists Study the Past

Objectives

Describe the tools used by archaeologists to study and understand human history.

Summarize current knowledge about the history of humanlike beings.

Summarize the current knowledge about the Stone Age.

Vocabulary

Lesson Main Ideas

What were some important finds that help our understanding of early people?

The Stone Age What are the phases of the Stone Age?

1. What can archaeologists learn by studying artifacts and fossils?

2. What have archaeologists learned about early hominids?

3. How did people live during the Paleolithic and Mesolithic Ages?

4. What kinds of changes probably encouraged the development of early hominid societies?

5. Why is studying early people so hard?

Lesson Review

Lesson Summary

primary source

secondary source

oral history

Understanding the Past

Why Study History?

Asking Historical Questions

Primary Sources What methods do historians use to help them answer questions about what

happened in the past?

Grade 6

World History: Ancient Civilizations

Chapter 1: The Tools of History

Lesson 4: How Historians Study the Past

Objectives

1. Analyze the reason why people study history.

2. Describe the tools historians use to study the past.

3. Explain how our understanding of history is always subject to change.

Vocabulary

Lesson Main Ideas

Secondary Sources

Oral History

Fact or Fiction?

Drawing Conclusions

1. Name two of the questions historians ask themselves when they study the past.

2. What resources do historians particularly rely on when a society does not have a written history?

3. What do historians do when they sort through evidence, such as that involving the "curse" of King Tut's

tomb?

4 . How are historians like detectives?

5. What steps do historians take as they answer historical questions?

Lesson Review

Lesson Summary