Early Societies 3000 BCE–1500 CE (Grades 4-6)
Use this comprehensive, ready-to-use, interactive digital resource package as you guide your students through an ongoing critical challenge exploring the overarching question: Why are early societies worth learning about?
This resource is part of the collection Inquiry Units.
Unit overview
Download unit synopsisOverarching inquiry question:
Why are early societies worth learning about?
Overarching critical challenge:
Create an engaging and persuasive presentation to convince an audience that early societies are worth learning about.
Big ideas
- We can learn a lot by studying the past.
- Not all early societies were the same as each other or the same as us today.
- The environment posed major challenges and opportunities for early societies.
Unit Launch
Line of inquiry #1: Analyzing similarities and differences
Inquiry question:
How similar and different was life in early societies from the way we live today?
Critical challenge:
Select five similarities and differences between long ago and present-day that are most worth learning about.
Line of inquiry #2: Investigating resourcefulness
Inquiry question:
What are some of the most resourceful ways early societies used and dealt with their environments?
Critical challenge:
Select and describe the three most resourceful ways early societies used and dealt with their environments.
Unit Finale