Social Studies August 25

This year in Social Studies...

1) 

•Each table will be assigned one of the following topics of World History:

–Egypt & Near East, 3000 BCE-1000 CE

–India, 3000 BCE-1000 CE

–China, 1800 BCE-200 CE

–Greece, 800 BCE-200 CE

–Rome, 600 BCE-600 CE

•As group, you will need to divide up your time period based on the number of people at your table:

–So…if you have 2000 years of history & 6 people at your table, each person would take about 333 years.

2)

•Use the History Alive! textbook (see the table of contents for pages on your topic) as well as other resources in the classroom.

•Each person will need to create a timeline on their sheet of paper covering their period of time.

•Each person will need to find 2 historic events from their period of time and topic, label these events on their timeline, and create a detailed, colorful illustration for each event.

•Each illustration must be neat, colorful, detailed (no stick figures) and be at least 3 x 5 inches in size.