Sixth grade social studies curriculum
Sixth grade social studies games.
Welcome to the home of Open Social Studies (formerly called Understanding Our World), which is an inquiry-based and literacy-focused K-6 social studies curriculum.
Sixth grade social studies curriculum
It is free and open source.
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Starting in the early elementary grades, all children should receive regular instruction in the social studies, which includes history, civics, geography, and economics.
However, there are real pressures on schools and teachers to increase the amount of instruction in other subject areas, which often comes at the expense of their social studies time.
This curriculum was built to help teachers in K-6 schools regularly enact powerful and authentic social studies in their classrooms that will also meet essential literacy goals (linking every lesson to the Common Core State Standards).
In other words, it leverages the richness of social studies content to help students learn to read, write, and think critically while exploring the past and present world a