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Ancient Civilizations - Common Core Lessons and Activities

Age 8-18
Grade 3-12

Carole Marsh

Ancient Civilizations - Common Core Lessons and Activities

Staple Bound (Gallopade Aug. 24, 2015) , First edition
The Ancient Civilizations - Common Core Lessons and Activities 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.

How to Use The Ancient Civilizations - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
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.
• Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice These new skills.
• Include technology, collaboration, presentations, and discussion in the activities as you desire - you can decide how in-depth to go.
• Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards, right before your eyes!

Click to view sample pages from this book.

Tips:
• Use some of the pages - or use them all - based on your grade, your students, your curriculum, and your needs.
• 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.
• To download the graphic organizers labeled "GO" in the Table of Contents
• Use the correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson. The Ancient Civilizations - Common Core Lessons and Activities book includes:
• Reading for Information
• Higher-Order Thinking
• Writing Problems
• Primary Source Analysis
• Vocabulary
• Graphic Organizers
• Map Activities
• And More!

The Table of Contents include:
River Valley Civilizations: Map Activity
The Gift of the Nile: Reading Informational Text
Egyptian Social Structure: Classify Information GAncient Mesopotamian Achievements: Reading Informational Text
Hammurabi’s Code: Primary Source Analysis
India’s Caste System: Graphic Organizer G
Great Wall of China: Primary Source Analysis
Sayings of Confucius: Primary Source Analysis G
Civilizations Vocabulary: Vocabulary GO10
Characteristics of a Civilization: Graphic Organizer G
Three Religions: Compare and Contrast GO2
The Incas: Reading Informational Text
Aztec Floating Gardens: Problem-Solution
Montezuma’s View: Primary & Secondary Source Analysis
Accomplishments of the Maya: Reading Informational Text
Maya Beauty Standards: Cause and Effect
Ancient Greece Geography: Map and Text Activity
Achievements of Ancient Rome: Reading Informational Text
Greek and Roman Empires: Compare and Contrast GO1
Common Core Correlations

G: Includes Graphic Organizer
>GO: Graphic Organizer is also available 8.5" x 11" online
(numbers above correspond to the graphic organizer numbers online)
Series
Common Core
ISBN
0635119862 / 9780635119865
Pages
24
Weight
0.3 oz.
Dimensions
5.5 x 0.1 in.

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