Mr. Levy 640s Ancient Civilizations
  • Welcome
    • Curriculum
  • Civilizations
    • Early Humans >
      • Notes
      • Websites
      • Videos
      • News Articles/Readings
    • 5 Features of a City
    • Mesopotamia >
      • Notes
      • Websites
      • Videos
      • News Articles/Readings
    • Ancient Egypt >
      • Notes
      • Websites
      • Videos
      • News Articles/Readings
      • Egyptian God/Goddess Project
    • Ancient China >
      • Websites
      • Videos
      • News Articles/Readings
    • Ancient Greece >
      • Websites
      • Videos
      • News Articles/Readings
      • Notes
      • Minoan News Article
    • Ancient Rome >
      • Notes
      • Websites
      • Videos
      • News Articles/Readings
      • Gladiator Webquest
  • Themes
    • Thinking like a Historian >
      • Notes
    • Patterns of Settlement >
      • Notes
    • Development of Culture >
      • Notes
    • Leadership and Decision Making >
      • Notes
  • Class Agenda
    • September
    • October
    • November
    • December
    • January
    • February
    • March
    • April
    • May
    • June
  • Student's Work
    • Red Class
    • Orange Class
    • Green Class



Essential Questions:
1. 
What geographic features contribute to the patterns of human settlement?
2. 
What is a civilization?
3. 
What is the interaction between people and the environment?
4. 
How does where you live impact how you live?

Big Ideas:
1. Geographical features impact the development of civilizations.
2. Civilization is made up of a large population, distribution of jobs, social structure, government, culture and trade.

3. Human settlements impact the environment.


Essential Vocabulary:
Civics,     Social Pyramid,     evolution,      city-states/polis,      social structure,    migrate,     Neolithic Revolution,     Ice Age,     Land Bridge,

society,     Domestication,    Hunter-Gatherers,     agriculture,     irrigation,     Natural Barriers,     Civilization,     Geography,   fertile soil (silt),

floods,    famine,    trade,    papyrus,   aqueduct,   calendar,  wheel,   plow,   social structure


Learning Experiences
  • Introduction of themes
  • “Big Paper” preview activity on the themes
  • Students will understand how themes are unfold in U.S./World today (slideshow, headlines activity)
  • Review geographical features and natural barriers
  • Understand why early civilizations settled along rivers
  • Connect the Neolithic Revolution and emergence of cities
  • Review the features of a civilization
  • Analyze how human settlements in ancient times and today impact the environment (science)
  • NewsELA as resource
  • Primary Source: Nile/Euphrates/Yellow River and irrigation channel
  • Primary Source: Deforestation/erosion



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