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🗺️ 7th Grade · Social StudiesD2.Civ.8.6-8Unit 4: Renaissance, Reformation & Scientific Revolution

The Enlightenment

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🎯 Objective: Students connect Enlightenment ideas to American government.

Lesson outline

  1. Quote match.
  2. Discuss.
  3. Write.
  4. Exit: one idea.

Lesson 4 of 4 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.Civ.8.6-8

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

🏁 Unit goals

  • Describe Renaissance art and ideas
  • Explain the Reformation and the Scientific Revolution

✅ 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 “Renaissance, Reformation & Scientific Revolution”

  1. The Renaissance
  2. The Reformation
  3. The Scientific Revolution
  4. The Enlightenment

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