Ancient Civilizations - Common Core Lessons & Activities

Ancient Civilizations - Common Core Lessons & Activities

The <b>Ancient Civilizations - Common Core Lessons and Activities</b> is designed to supplement your Social Studies resources, adding new Common Core rigor, analysis, writing, inference, text-dependent questions, and more into your daily instruction.<br /><br />How to Use The <b>Ancient Civilizations - Common Core Lessons and Activities</b> book: <br /> Work through the lessons and activities as a class to teach your students higher-order thinking, analysis, and 21st century skills necessary to meet new Common Core expectations. <br /> Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice These new skills. <br /> Include technology, collaboration, presentations, and discussion in the activities as you desire - you can decide how in-depth to go. <br /> Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards, right before your eyes! <br /><br />Tips: <br /> Use some of the pages - or use them all - based on your grade, your students, your curriculum, and your needs. <br /> Use these pages at their current size, or if you prefer. Then to be 8.5" X 11", enlarge it to 125% on your copy machine. <br /> Use the correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson. The <b>Ancient Civilizations - Common Core Lessons and Activities</b> book includes: <br /> Reading for Information<br /> Higher-Order Thinking<br /> Writing Problems<br /> Primary Source Analysis<br /> Vocabulary<br /> Graphic Organizers<br /> Map Activities<br /> And More! <br /><br />The Table of Contents include: <br /><b>River Valley Civilizations: </b> Map Activity<br /><b>The Gift of the Nile: </b> Reading Informational Text<br /><b>Egyptian Social Structure: </b> Classify Information G<b>Ancient Mesopotamian Achievements: </b>Reading Informational Text<br /><b>Hammurabi s Code: </b> Primary Source Analysis<br /><b>India s Caste System: </b> Graphic Organizer G<br /><b>Great Wall of China: </b> Primary Source Analysis<br /><b>Sayings of Confucius: </b>Primary Source Analysis G<br /><b>Civilizations Vocabulary: </b>Vocabulary GO10<br /><b>Characteristics of a Civilization: </b> Graphic Organizer G<br /><b>Three Religions: </b>Compare and Contrast GO2<br /><b>The Incas: </b>Reading Informational Text<br /><b>Aztec Floating Gardens: </b> Problem-Solution<br /><b>Montezuma s View: </b> Primary & Secondary Source Analysis<br /><b>Accomplishments of the Maya: </b> Reading Informational Text<br /><b>Maya Beauty Standards: </b> Cause and Effect<br /><b>Ancient Greece Geography: </b>Map and Text Activity<br /><b>Achievements of Ancient Rome: </b> Reading Informational Text<br /><b>Greek and Roman Empires: </b>Compare and Contrast GO1<br /><b>Common Core Correlations</b><br /><br /><b>G: </b> Includes Graphic Organizers