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6-8 Core Curriculum – History: Ancient Civilizations I
This is Volume I of the Grades 6-8 History series!
Take your children on this fascinating trip back in time to explore the evolution of humans and the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, and China. Highlights include multisensory activities to engage your children and provide the connection to make history relevant in their own lives. Each chapter includes current and active links to multiple videos, hands-on activities, experiments, readings, worksheets, charts, interactive websites, games, full-color high resolution graphics, and more!
This unit study is part of our history core curriculum series for grades 6-8. The time needed to complete this unit study will vary for each child, but you should expect to spend approximately 40 hours.
Take a peek inside:
A timeline approach to history
Inventions and discoveries
Heroes and villains
Wars and conquests
Mesopotamia
Ancient Egypt
The Indus Valley
Ancient China
The role of religion in ancient history
Legacies from ancient cultures
and much more!
All activities in this unit study are presented in an easy to follow format with an active and updated web link. Click on the link and the best resources on the World Wide Web appear for your children. The links bring the world to your children by providing streaming videos, interactive web sites, educational games, audio files, and more. At Intellego Unit Studies, we believe in the varied learning styles and multiple intelligences of every child. That’s why all of our unit studies include reading and writing activities, videos, art, music, comparisons, drawing and painting, discussions, hands-on activities, art projects, full-color high resolution graphics, printable activity pages, and more!
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