Ancient Indus River Valley Civilizations Unit India History Social Studies 6th

Ancient India the complete unit with maps, activities, readings. The Ancient Civilization of India unit bundle was designed with 6th-grade world history social studies CCSS in mind. With over 320 pages divided into 8 easy-to-follow subfolders, you’ll have all of the Ancient India lesson plans, activities, reading passages, guided notes with worksheets, & assessments you’ll need to teach like a superhero!

This awesome Ancient Civilizations activities bundle is printable and student-centered. Students will explore and review the big idea six key concepts (GRAPES). Plus, our curriculum units have embedded student accountability with assessments at each step, so progress is data-driven.

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Like all of our Ancient History bundles, the Ancient India unit has a common flow created to reduce anxiety for you and your students throughout the year! We know that teachers love no prep history activities, and students need structure and accountability to succeed; our units are taught with a common sequence, complete with mini-assessments along the way.

Here’s what’s included, organized in 8 sequenced subfolders:

1.⚡ANCIENT INDIA INVESTIGATION INTRODUCTION LESSON SUBFOLDER–

This lesson is a great introduction and includes a summative activity. Students analyze visuals, primary source excerpts, and map to make predictions about the content they will learn about.

2.⚡ANCIENT INDIA GEOGRAPHY SUBFOLDER–

This bundle includes SEVEN geography lesson choices for both student-centered learning and direct instruction. Now it includes a geography quiz!

3.⚡ANCIENT INDIA VOCABULARY SUBFOLDER- Includes three assignment vocabulary options, review games, and a quiz. Also, includes Quizlet links for online learning practice with the same words and definitions!

4. ⚡NOTES, READINGS, and GRAPHIC ORGANIZER SUBFOLDER-

Includes everything you need to teach the content via readings, activities, or direct instruction. Complete with a content quiz!

1. HISTORICAL SNAPSHOT CLOSE READING SET– This Ancient India close reading set includes an annotation guide, worksheet, and graphic organizer based on the big ideas of social science. Now includes a comprehension quiz and answer key!
2. POWERPOINT NOTES, two-page outline PRINTABLE NOTES with a graphic organizer that can be used interchangeably!
3. STUDENT-CENTERED READING STATIONS– Reading stations are organized by key concepts for social science and have a worksheet or folding graphic organizer option.
4. Ancient India Interactive Notebook This covers all of the bases for Ancient India and can be done in an interactive notebook format or as a workbook and fun doodle-style project.

5. ⚡ACTIVITIES SUBFOLDER– Includes diverse, interactive, student-centered activities, worksheets, and close readings from which teachers can pick and choose based on personal style and class needs.

1. My School Caste: A fun literacy and comparison activity
2. King Ashoka the Great? Students Decide! Close reading and claim, evidence, reasoning (CER) writing assignment. Students evaluate his achievements and support a claim with evidence
3. Hinduism Activity: Two-page close reading, worksheet, and iPad app (paper) assignment.
4. The Gupta Golden Age Achievements of India- Literacy, writing, and fun advertisement activity!
5. What’s Your Destiny?-Close reading and fun comprehension game. Students read and compete in a displayed class game board. Winning students choose a fictitious destiny that is shared with the class!
6. Buddha The Enlightened One– Close reading, worksheet, and Buddha Tweets his followers’ activity!
7. Compare and Contrast Hinduism and Buddhism Chart
8. King Ashoka Class Read Aloud! Includes a graphic organizer for students to complete after the reading.
9. Jingle Mingle Fun Review Interactive – Students mingle about the room finding partners. When the music stops, students address essential learning questions together!
10. Common Core Primary Source Quote Activities (5 to choose from)
11. Common Core Aligned Research Project Packet and Activity (6 ideas and Templates with the SAME rubric!)
12. Gupta Inventions Shark Tank Cloze Reading, Analysis and Fun Activity– Students present a Gupta achievement to class sharks for potential investment!
13. Doodle World History Summary Activity– Fun, creative note-taking graphic organizer that allows students to detail the 6 key big idea concepts.
14. Snapchat King Ashoka– Students complete a Snapchat phone template with announcements in a Snapchat story!
15. History’s Mysteries- How Did Early Indus River Valley Settlements Thrive without Rivers? Close reading and claim, evidence, reasoning activity.
16. Teach and Be Taught Interactive- Students research a key concept-based fact about Ancient India and exchange a fact with each classmate.
17. Claim, Evidence, Reasoning Resource Pack
18. Medical Marvels of Ancient India Students learn about the fascinating medical accomplishments of Ancient India! First, students read a page doodle note style reading about the medical accomplishments, including knowledge of how the body works and surgery.

6.⚡1. DAILY SKILL-BASED TEXT ANALYSIS WARM-UPS/ BELLRINGERS– Students make inferences and predictions from the text, choose the best evidence to support a claim, cite sources, paraphrase and learn to write strong commentary in these daily skill-based mini-lessons and practice slides.

2. Exit Tickets– Over 40 formats from which to choose! Students support a claim with evidence, write what they learned, or formulate content questions! This is a great informal daily summary.

7.⚡BIG IDEAS- KEY CONCEPTS FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE SUBFOLDER –

Includes 10 activities that work perfectly with interactive notebooks!  Each unit comes with a key concepts introductions PowerPoint and graphic organizer, My World- Big Ideas Activity, Folding graphic Organizer, The Biggest Idea Unit Summary Activity, Big Idea Claim, Evidence, Reasoning Writing Guides, Linking the Big Ideas Analysis Activity, Key Concept Storyboard, Key Concepts Foldable Mini-Packet of Resources and a Key Concepts Field Report Summary Activity

8. ⚡STUDY GUIDES, KEY CONCEPT REVIEW, & TEST SUBFOLDER– Each unit comes with a study guide that has students pre-read and define important vocabulary and make meaning of text excerpts that they will also see on the skill-based test! This helps reduce test anxiety while accomplishing the same skill-based reading comprehension goal. Check out the multiple-choice editable Common Core test. Students read excerpts and support claims with evidence!

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❤️❤️The India Bundle is also available in a digital classroom format that works great in any internet-based or paperless class, including Google Classroom! The digital version includes Google Forms assessments, interactive Google Slides digital activities that have pre-made text boxes, and Google Earth/Maps activities.

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Our World History Curriculum, including Ancient and Medieval History lessons, is key-concept-based, focussing on the “big six” key concepts for social science, often referred to as GRAPES.By learning World History with key concepts as a filter, students will become familiar with the crucial attributes that have allowed ancient and medieval civilizations to prosper. Also, students will build a framework, scaffolding future learning with the key concepts that will be repeated throughout their academic careers.

Each unit comes with notes, graphic organizers, and review worksheets that have the GRAPES key concepts in mind:

• G= Geography
• R= Religion
• A= Achievements
• P= Politics/Government/Leadership
• E= Economy
• S= Social Classes