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History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 6

Historical Inquiry and Archaeological Evidence

Learners find out how we know anything about the distant past. They sort primary and secondary sources, read the layers of a dig to put finds in order, use radiocarbon half-lives to estimate ages, separate what an artifact shows from what we infer about it, and finish by writing a claim backed by evidence and an honest statement of its limits.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 85 min
  • Quiz: 9 questions
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History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 6

Early Humans and Agricultural Change

Learners follow modern humans from Africa across the world, then investigate how and where people began to farm, not once but in several places. They weigh the gains and costs of farming using skeletons, seeds and settlements as evidence, and finish by arguing about a real puzzle: a huge stone monument built before farming took hold.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 90 min
  • Quiz: 9 questions
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History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 6

River Civilizations and Institutions

Learners locate the first river-valley civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus Valley and China and explain how floods, silt and irrigation made cities possible. They identify the institutions that held these societies together, read short excerpts of Hammurabi's laws as a primary source, and write a comparison of two civilizations backed by evidence.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 95 min
  • Quiz: 9 questions
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History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 6

Ancient Mediterranean Societies

Learners sail the ancient Mediterranean: Phoenician traders spread an alphabet, Athens invents a democracy that most of its people could not join, Sparta builds a military state, and Rome grows from a republic into an empire. Along the way they source a famous speech reported by Thucydides and judge how far it can be trusted.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 100 min
  • Quiz: 9 questions
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History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 6

Ancient Asian Societies and Exchange

Learners study how Chinese rulers claimed the right to rule and how the Qin and Han unified a vast land, compare Confucian, Daoist and Legalist answers to the question of how to keep order, and meet the Maurya and Gupta empires of India. They finish on the Silk Roads, tracing how goods, beliefs and technologies moved across Asia.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 100 min
  • Quiz: 9 questions
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History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 6

African and American Societies in Comparative Context

Learners investigate Kush and Aksum in northeast Africa, the Nok culture and the Bantu expansion, and the Olmec, Maya, Chavín and Ancestral Puebloan societies of the Americas. They compare societies with a clear framework and ask a deeper question: how does the kind of evidence that survives shape what we can know?

  • 4 lessons
  • About 100 min
  • Quiz: 9 questions

History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 6

Belief, Government, Economy and Trade

This course steps back from single civilizations to look at four big themes across the ancient world: how people were governed and why rulers claimed the right to rule, what major belief systems taught, how economies moved from barter to coins, and how trade linked distant peoples. Learners finish by testing a big claim against evidence from several societies.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 100 min
  • Quiz: 9 questions

History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 6

Compare Civilizations with Sources and Arguments

In this capstone, learners carry out a complete comparative inquiry: they choose a strong comparison question, source a small set of primary documents and artifacts, build a thesis with evidence and counterevidence, and write and revise an argument comparing two ancient civilizations.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 120 min
  • Quiz: 8 questions

History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 7

Sources, Causation and Historical Arguments

Using the Black Death of 1347–1351 as a case study, learners judge sources for reliability and usefulness, separate long-term causes from triggers, trace intended and unintended consequences, and build a causal argument that ranks causes with evidence.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 105 min
  • Quiz: 9 questions
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History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 7

Medieval and Early Modern Connections

Learners connect four medieval worlds: the manors and Church of western Europe, Byzantium, the Islamic caliphates and Tang–Song China. They trace how law, learning, printing and gunpowder moved between them, examine the Crusades as conflict and exchange, and argue whether the printing press caused the Reformation.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 105 min
  • Quiz: 9 questions
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History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 7

African, Asian and American Networks

Learners follow gold and salt across the Sahara to the empires of Ghana, Mali and Songhai, ride the monsoon winds to the Swahili coast, Great Zimbabwe and the fleets of Zheng He, and study how the Aztec and Inca organized huge states. They compare these networks and source the outsiders' and insiders' accounts that describe them.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 105 min
  • Quiz: 9 questions
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History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 7

Exploration, Colonization and Exchange

Learners examine why Europeans sailed into the Atlantic and Indian Oceans after 1400, what the Columbian Exchange moved between hemispheres, how small Spanish forces toppled the Aztec and Inca states with Indigenous allies and epidemics, and how the Atlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans across the ocean. Every lesson includes the perspectives of those who were colonized and enslaved.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 110 min
  • Quiz: 9 questions
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History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 7

Ideas about Power, Rights and Government

Learners compare two answers to an old question, where does a ruler's power come from? They examine divine-right absolutism under Louis XIV, the long English struggle to limit kings from Magna Carta to the Bill of Rights, and the Enlightenment ideas of Locke, Montesquieu and Rousseau. They read short public-domain excerpts, trace the ideas into the Declaration of Independence, and debate who was left out.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 110 min
  • Quiz: 9 questions
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History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 7

Revolutions and Changing Economies

Learners study four kinds of revolution: a revolution in how people investigated nature, political revolutions in North America, France, Haiti and Latin America, and the early Industrial Revolution in Britain. They compare causes and outcomes, ask who gained rights and who did not, and read data about a changing economy.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 115 min
  • Quiz: 9 questions

History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 7

United States Development and Conflicting Experiences

Between 1790 and 1850 the United States doubled its territory, built canals and mills, and grew rich on cotton. Learners study these developments through the eyes of different people: settlers and merchants, enslaved people, Cherokee and other Native nations forced from their homelands, young women in the Lowell mills, Irish immigrants and the women who met at Seneca Falls. They then argue whether 'progress' is the right word for the period.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 115 min
  • Quiz: 9 questions

History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 7

An Evidence-Based Comparative History Project

In this project course, learners design and complete a comparative history investigation of two revolutions or two trade networks from the year. They refine a research question, take notes responsibly (quoting, paraphrasing and citing), corroborate evidence across several sources, build a comparative causal thesis, and write and reflect on a full project essay.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 130 min
  • Quiz: 9 questions