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Alike and different: The Middle East and the United States

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A lesson plan for grade 6 Social Studies

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In this Xpeditions lesson, students explore the similarities and differences between the Middle East and their own city, state, and country. Activities in this lesson engage students in collaborative group work, online research, and whole class discussion.

Students will:

  • explore maps of the Middle East;
  • use maps of the Middle East to match the names of countries with facts about them;
  • look at a city map of Baghdad and compare it to a map of their own city (or a different city of their choice); and
  • fill in maps of the Middle East and their own region, labeling important places and geographical features.

Xpeditions provides detailed directions for completing the lesson, suggestions for assessment and extension activities, discussion questions, and links to necessary web resources.

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

Social Studies (2003)

Grade 6

  • Goal 1: The learner will use the five themes of geography and geographic tools to answer geographic questions and analyze geographic concepts.
    • Objective 1.01: Create maps, charts, graphs, databases, and models as tools to illustrate information about different people, places and regions in South America and Europe.
    • Objective 1.03: Use tools such as maps, globes, graphs, charts, databases, models, and artifacts to compare data on different countries of South America and Europe and to identify patterns as well as similarities and differences among them.
  • Goal 13: The learner will describe the historic, economic, and cultural connections among North Carolina, the United States, South America, and Europe.
    • Objective 13.01: Identify historical movements such as colonization, revolution, emerging democracies, migration, and immigration that link North Carolina and the United States to selected societies of South America and Europe and evaluate their influence on local, state, regional, national, and international communities.