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🗺️ 7th Grade · Social StudiesD2.Geo.7.6-8Unit 2: China & Japan

The Mongol Empire

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🎯 Objective: Students explain the Mongol Empire’s expansion and effects.

Lesson outline

  1. Map.
  2. Discuss.
  3. Write.
  4. Exit: one effect.

Lesson 2 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.Geo.7.6-8

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

🏁 Unit goals

  • Describe the Tang, Song and Ming dynasties
  • Describe feudal Japan

✅ 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 “China & Japan”

  1. Tang and Song China
  2. The Mongol Empire
  3. Ming China and exploration
  4. Feudal Japan

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