Ancient Civilizations - Common Core Lessons and Activities

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!

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.
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 Organizers