Grade 6: Investigating History Unit Overview Courses

Investigating History: Unit 6.1 Introduction Course


Content
  • 6.1 Introductory Module: Human Origins, the Paleolithic and Neolithic Eras
  • ORIENTATION TO UNIT (30 minutes)
  • Orientation: Insights for Teaching Unit 6.1 
  • CLUSTER 1: STUDYING THE ANCIENT PAST (~45 minutes)
  • CLUSTER 2: THE EVOLUTION OF HOMO SAPIENS IN THE PALEOLITHIC ERA (~1.5 hours)
  • Human Transitions in Prehistory
  • Pleistocene Climate and Migration
  • The Cognitive Revolution
  • CLUSTER 3: THE NEOLITHIC ERA AND ITS ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT (~1.5 hours)
  • Domestication and its Spread
  • Life in the Neolithic
  • SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT: TURNING POINTS IN EARLY HUMAN HISTORY (45 minutes)
  • PDP INFORMATION, SURVEYS, AND FEEDBACK
Completion rules
  • All units must be completed