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Wednesday, May 6, 2020 - mini-unit on Ancient Rome

5/6/2020

 
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Students from a previous school year participating in the Roman Invention Wall-Walk.

UNIT 5 - THE ARC OF HISTORY (EUROPE)

MINI-UNIT: THE INFLUENCE OF ANCIENT ROME

Key Concept:  Change
 
Related Concept(s):  Innovation, Revolution
 
Global Context:  Scientific and Technical Innovation

Statement of Inquiry:  Scientific and technical innovation can lead to change in a society.  
 
 
 
Notes 5.8 – What did the Romans Invent?
 
Factual Question – What is a an aqueduct?
 
Conceptual Question – How does the building of roads affect the development of a society?
 
Debatable Question – Why focus on Roman inventions when other world civilizations developed many significant inventions as well?
 
This lesson draws upon existing classroom resources and is intended to give you the student the courtyard wall walk that we normally do at school a digital face (see picture below). It is intended to begin giving you exposure to scientific and innovative ideas for your summative project for the unit later this month.
 
First - Update the Table of Contents on page 6 of your interactive notebook and the vocabulary primer index on page 4  (see Gallery below).
 
Second - Add and complete the entry for the following terms on page 20 in the Vocabulary Primer  – aqueduct, Roman Arch, keystone (see Gallery below)
 
Third – Print or Draw – the lotus diagram for the Notes on pp.  66-67 (see example below if you don’t have a printer).
 
Fourth - Create your Lotus notes from the 8 reading selections on Roman inventions below (see below). One invention per box.
 
Practice your citizenship – Continue watching CNN 10 at
 
https://www.cnn.com/cnn10
 
Write a question for each story in the last pages of your interactive notebook, where we used to write our DO NOW question.
spring_2020_toc.pdf
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lotus_notes_5.8_-_roman_science_and_technology.pdf
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Table of Contents
Vocabulary Index
Vocabulary Primer Entry
Hand-Drawn Lotus
arch.pdf
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battlefield_surgery.pdf
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bound_books.pdf
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concrete.pdf
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julian_calendar.pdf
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newspapers.pdf
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roads.pdf
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the_aqueduct.pdf
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    6th Grade World Cultures
    Individuals and Society - Year 1
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