1. World Studies Unit 1 Connecting Themes
6th Grade Social Studies
World Studies
Unit 1
Connecting Themes

2. Question:
What are some major ideas that geographers study?

3. Brain Pop: Geography Themes
The Brain Pop talks about 5 themes. Can you name them?
Location
Region
Place
Movement
Environment

4. Create Foldable
Fold paper ‘hotdog’ and leave about an inch from the edge.
Wait for further folding instructions

5. 8 Themes of Global Studies
Title the foldable:
8 Themes of Global Studies

6. What affects how your family earns income?
Have you ever lived in another region of US? World?
Was the lifestyle (jobs, houses, entertainment) different?

7. a place of settlement, activity, or residence.
What is location?
a place of settlement, activity, or residence.
A place where something is or could be located; a site.

8. Location
Location affects a society’s economy, culture and development.
Cow on busy street
in Bombay, India

9. How does the location of each of these communities affect its economy, culture, and development?
Laguna Beach, CA
Mountain village in Nothern Pakistan
Desert community near Luxor, Egypt

10. On your foldable…. Choose a section and write LOCATION
Draw a picture that makes you think about LOCATION

11. Location
Where is it?
Absolute location—uses lines of latitude and longitude
Relative location—Your location in relation to another location
Look at Google Earth

12. What causes families to move?
What causes large groups of people to move?
What are the positive/negative consequences of moving?
How can society be affected by large groups of people moving?

13. What is migration?
to go from one country, region, or place to another.
move, resettle.
to make such a move either once or repeatedly.
Migrate is applied both to people or to animals that move from one region to another, especially periodically.

14. Movement/Migration
The movement or migration of people affects all societies involved.
Oregon Trail Video

15. Movement/Migration
The movement or migration of people affects all societies involved.
Arriving at Ellis Island, New York Harbor

16. What do you
think these
people are doing?
Mongolian villagers migrate to the ever decreasing grassland regions to escape the desertification of areas of Inner Mongolia.

17. On your foldable…. Choose a section and write Movement
Draw a picture that makes you think about Movement

18. Movement Transportation—Goods Migration—People Diffusion—Ideas push
pull
forced
Diffusion—Ideas
relocation
contagious
hierarchical
migration ppt

19. How does a society adapt to its environment?
Why would a society change its environment?
What are some consequences of that change?
How have you experienced human environment interaction?

20. What is environment?
The nature, conditions, and circumstances that surround a person, animal, or thing make up the environment. Your bedroom is your environment, and so is your planet. A car in a wet environment may become rusty.

21. act together or towards others or with others.
What is interaction?
act together or towards others or with others.
to act, or have some effect, on each other.

22. Human Environmental Interaction
Humans, their societies, and their environment affect each other.

23. Which of the following describe the environment of this classroom?
Quiet
Noisy
Structured
Unorganized
Attractive
Boring
Exciting
Dangerous
Supportive
Scary
Friendly
State-of-art technology
Literature rich
Other
How can your actions help or hurt the classroom environment?

24. Human Environmental Interaction
How much longer will we wait?
The future is in our hands.
Music - “ONLY TIME” by enya

25. How do humans interact with the environment in order to survive?
How does environment affect what humans eat?

26. Human Environmental Interaction
On your foldable….
Choose a section and write
Human Environmental Interaction
Draw a picture that makes you think about

27. Human environmental interactions
How man impacts the environment
and
How the environment impacts man

28. How does conflict with your friends change your relationship?
What conflict have you experienced in your life? What changed occurred as a result?
Why is there change when you have conflict between or within societies?
Why does change always follow conflict?

29. Conflict and Change
When two people, ideas, or forces work against each other, they are in conflict.
A quarrel is a conflict; war is conflict; a pitcher and batter are in conflict.
Change is a new state of being. Everything in nature is constantly changing—including people. Conflict causes change.

30. Conflict Causes Change
When there is conflict between or within societies, change is the result.

31. What’s the conflict? What change was the result?

32. CONFLICT?
CHANGE?

33. On your foldable…. Choose a section and write Conflict and Change
Draw a picture that makes you think about Conflict and Change

34. Conflict and Change
When there is conflict between or within societies, change is the result.

35. What in your life has changed but remained the same?
How can a society change but basic components remain the same over a period of time?
Why might a society remain the same even if there is change over time?

36. Time, Change, and Continuity
Photos?
Think of US

37. Time, Change and Continuity
While change occurs over time, there is continuity to the basic structure of that society.

38. uninterrupted connection or union
What is continuity?
flow, progression
uninterrupted connection or union
the state or quality of being continuous

39. Time, Change and Continuity
While change occurs over time, there is continuity to the basic structure of society.
Time, Change and Continuity

40. Kern County Courthouse, California
1896
1866
1922
1952

41. On your foldable…. Choose a section and write
Time, Change, and Continuity
Draw a picture that makes you think about Time, Change and Continuity

42. Time, Change, and Continuity
While change occurs over time, there is continuity to the basic structure of that society

43. What are the elements of culture?
What are the characteristics of your society’s culture?
How does religion affect culture?
Why do societies have cultural conflict?
What cultural conflicts have you seen within your school and the United States?
How can government actions (i.e. laws) affect the culture of a society?

44. What is culture?
Habit, custom, tradition, language, celebration, food, religion, family organization, work, and play: all these make up our culture. Think of culture as “the way we do things around here.” In another country—or neighborhood--people do things differently. That’s their culture

45. Culture
The culture of a society is the product of the religion, beliefs, customs, traditions, and government of that society.
Untouched Amazonian Tribe Caught On Camera

46. What Makes Up Culture? Government Institutions Foods Art Dress
Traditions, Customs, Beliefs
Foods
CULTURE
Art
Dress
Language
Religion

47. What factors influence our culture?
TRADITIONS
GOVERNMENT
FOOD
BELIEFS
ART
LANGUAGE
RELIGION
INSTITUTIONS
CLOTHING

48. On your foldable…. Choose a section and write Culture
Draw a picture that makes you think about Culture

49. Culture
A society's culture is the product of its religion, beliefs, values, language, customs, traditions, and government.

50. Mental Break…Did you know….?
A blue whale's aorta (the main blood vessel) is large enough for a human to crawl through.

51. What is Governance?
A group of two people—or two million—has to work things out. They need a system of governance, a way to make decisions together. Governance describes who has power, how some people keep and hold power, and how other people can bring about change.

52. Governance
As a society increases in complexity and interacts with other societies, the complexity of the government also increases.

53. What is complexity?
complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts
not simple; as, a complex being; a complex idea.
Involving many parts; complicated; intricate

54. Which society would have the most
complex system of government? Why?

55. In sports, how does the complexity of rules change as players move up in a career?

56. Tokyo Metropolitan Government Complex,
1991

57. More people = more businesses = more protection = more laws = more complexity in government.
More interaction between different groups = more laws and government.

58. On your foldable…. Choose a section and write Governance
Draw a picture that makes you think about Governance

59. Governance
As a society increases in complexity and interacts with other societies, the complexity of its government also increases.
Govt ppt

61. What are the components of an economy?
What influences an economy?
How are items that you buy produced, distributed, and consumed?
How is the economy of our area affected by location, customs, beliefs, and laws?

62. What is Economics? Check out video, What is Econ? on Safari Montage
Power Point

63. the system of production and distribution and consumption
What is economy?
 the system of production and distribution and consumption
organization of money and resources

64. What is production?
* creation; manufacture

65. What is distribution?
* To sell and ship or deliver (an item or line of merchandise) to individual customers, esp. in a specified region or area.
* To deliver or pass out
* To spread throughout a given area

66. to use or use up consumer goods; to use up resources or materials
What is consumption?
to use or use up consumer goods; to use up resources or materials
to purchase economic goods and services

67. articles of trade; wares; merchandise objects etc for sale, products
What are goods?
articles of trade; wares; merchandise
objects etc for sale, products

68. What are services?
the duty or work of public servants
the performance of any duties or work for another; helpful or professional activity
supplying aids or activities rather than products or goods

69. Production, Distribution, and Consumption:
The production, distribution and consumption of goods/services produced by the society are affected by the location, customs, beliefs, and laws of the society

70. Choose a section and write Production, Distribution, and Consumption
On your foldable….
Choose a section and write
Production, Distribution, and Consumption
Draw a picture that makes you think about Production, Distribution, and Consumption

71. Production, Distribution, and Consumption
Goods/Services produced by the society are affected by the location, customs, beliefs, and laws of the society

72. Mental Break…Did you know….?
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

73. 2008 Beijing Olympics song"Welcome to Beijing“ As you watch this video, write down examples of the following themes that you see. Be specific in your descriptions.
Conflict and Change
Time, Change and Continuity
Culture
Governance
Location
Movement/Migration
Human Environmental Interaction
Production, Distribution, and Consumption