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🗺️ 6th Grade · Social StudiesD2.His.14.6-8Unit 4: Ancient Greece & Rome

The Roman Empire and its fall

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🎯 Objective: Students explain causes of Rome’s fall.

Lesson outline

  1. Cause cards.
  2. Rank.
  3. Discuss.
  4. Exit: one cause.

Lesson 5 of 5 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.14.6-8

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

🏁 Unit goals

  • Describe democracy in Athens and the Roman Republic
  • Explain Greek and Roman contributions

✅ 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 “Ancient Greece & Rome”

  1. Geography of Greece
  2. Athens and Sparta
  3. Greek ideas
  4. The Roman Republic
  5. The Roman Empire and its fall

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