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= Essential Questions for 6th Grade Social Studies =

Ancient Civilizations
What do people need to survive?

Where did people settle and why?

Why did cultures develop differently in different places?

What are come commonalities among these ancient cultures?

What are some differences among these ancient cultures?

What characteristics do ancient leaders have in common?

Why are there wars?

[|History Channel]

[|5 Themes of Geography]

Pix of Project Work

Online publishing tools
[|Why publish online?] [|Mrs. Kolbert's 4th grade blog]

[|Collection of Web 2.0 tools to publish student work] [|Voicethread] - Online posting of images and shared conversation [|Prezi] - Create poster presentations [|Google Docs] Create and share online versions of documents, presentations and spreadsheets [|Storybird] Create your own online storybooks with words and images [|Glogster] "Posterize" yourself [|Wall Wisher]Virtual sticky note collections [|Set up a free, no-ad K-12 Wikispace account] [|Livebinder] [|Posterous]
 * [|Glogster Tutorial via Free Tech 4 Teachers]
 * Tony Vincent's comments about Posterous