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🗺️ 6th Grade · Social StudiesD2.His.10.6-8Unit 1: Studying the past & early humans

Historians and archaeologists

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🎯 Objective: Students explain how we learn about the past from sources and artifacts.

Lesson outline

  1. Artifact bag.
  2. Infer.
  3. Discuss.
  4. Exit: one inference.

Lesson 1 of 3 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

D2.His.10.6-8

C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards (NCSS) — typical US grade-level themes

🏁 Unit goals

  • Explain how historians and archaeologists learn about the past
  • Describe the shift to farming

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

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More lessons in “Studying the past & early humans”

  1. Historians and archaeologists
  2. Early humans
  3. The farming revolution

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