Here are the session outlines and some student activities featured in the Social Studies Network.
The Michigan Geographic Alliance website has more activities:
https://www.cmich.edu/colleges/cst/MGA/Pages/World-Regional-Geography-Using-Big-Ideas.aspx
These course outlines have relevant Michigan Grade Level Content Expectations:
6th Regional or Topical presentation brief background about course organization
6th Grade SS Network outline with GLCEs course outline that parallels MCCC structure
6th Region Topic Matrix matrix for arranging topics into regions, and a regional course outline
This document has the Michigan 6th grade GLCEs annotated with discussion questions:
Michigan 6th Grade GLCEs and Spatial Thinking Questions
Click on these lines to get materials for each individual unit in the course:
- Unit 1 – Foundations of World Geography (Personal Decisions and Geographic Patterns)
- Unit 2 – The World in Spatial Terms (Where? Why There? Why Care?)
- Unit 3 – Population Geography (Births, Deaths, and Migrations)
- Unit 4 – Cultural Geography (Shared Ideas, Inventions, and Adaptations)
- Unit 5 – Economic Geography (Resources, BIGJobs, and Trade)
- Unit 6 – Political Geography (Empires, Colonies, Conflict, Cooperation)
- Unit 7 – Capstone Inquiry Activities (environment, migration, etc.)