Marsden edu 741_foragingvs.agriculture_websiteprojectentrydocument
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The 6th grade social studies teachers at American Canyon Middle School are asking for help from freshman humanities students at American Canyon High School. They want the students to create engaging websites for 6th graders that answer the question "Was life in agrarian societies better than life in hunter-gatherer societies?". The websites should include information about the origins and impacts of agriculture and early cities, as well as comparisons of different agrarian civilizations and the advantages and disadvantages of agrarian and hunter-gatherer lifestyles. The websites are due by March 22nd.
Marsden edu 741_foragingvs.agriculture_websiteprojectentrydocument
- 1. To: ACHS Freshmen Humanities 9 students From: ACMS 6th Grade Teachers Re: Websites for 6th grade social studies We want to congratulate you on completing your first semester of high school. You have worked hard to get to this point, and we commend you on your hard work! It seems like just yesterday that most of you were students in our 6th grade social studies classes here at American Canyon Middle School. We are writing to you to ask for your help with our 6th grade social studies curriculum. This year 6th grade students, much like you, will be exploring the transition from Paleolithic hunting and gathering lifeways to Neolithic farming. Like you, they will be learning about causes of this Neolithic Revolution and the impact it had on ordinary peoples lives. Like you, they will be learning how the development of agriculture gave rise to agrarian civilizations in Mesopotamia, China, India, Egypt, Greece, Rome, and Mesoamerica. Our students are most interested to know your answer to this question, Was life in agrarian societies better than life in hunter-gatherer societies? We would like you to create engaging, interactive websites that answer this question using information from The Big History website and the novel Walkabout, by James Vance Marshall. In your website, please include answers to these questions: Where, how, and why did agriculture first begin, and what was its impact? Where and why did the first cities appear, and what was their impact? How and why did cities evolve into agrarian civilizations? How were agrarian civilizations such as Mesopotamia, Jericho, China, India, Egypt, Greece, Rome, and Mesoamerica similar and different from one another? What were advantages and disadvantages of life in these agrarian civilizations? What are the advantages and disadvantages of foraging (hunter-gatherer) lifeways as depicted in the novel Walkabout? Was life in agrarian societies better than life in hunter-gatherer societies? Please make your websites as creative and interactive as possible with text, photos, games, animations, quizzes that would be interesting to 6th graders. We hope to be able to share your webpages with our students by Friday, March 22. Good Luck! Ms. Keller, Ms. Zuniga, Ms. Tighe American Canyon Middle School 6th Grade Social Studies Teachers