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=science/social studies page= Current Studies: Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Kush Standards:

6.2 Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the early civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Kush.
Links: [|Harcourt Social Studies] - supplementary reading and activities [|Social Studies Learning Activities] [|World Atlas] [|Geography Glossary] [|Resources]
 * 1) Locate and describe the major river systems and discuss the physical settings that supported permanent settlement and early civilizations.
 * 2) Trace the development of agricultural techniques that permitted the production of economic surplus and the emergence of cities as centers of culture and power.
 * 3) Understand the relationship between religion and the social and political order in Mesopotamia and Egypt.
 * 4) Know the significance of Hammurabi's Code.
 * 5) Discuss the main features of Egyptian art and architecture.
 * 6) Describe the role of Egyptian trade in the eastern Mediterranean and Nile valley.
 * 7) Understand the significance of Queen Hatshepsut and Ramses the Great.
 * 8) Identify the location of the Kush civilization and describe its political, commercial, and cultural relations with Egypt.
 * 9) Trace the evolution of language and its written forms.

Recent Studies: Heat Standards:

Heat (Thermal Energy) (Physical Sciences)
Standards: Scientific Investigation Scientific progress is made by asking meaningful questions and conducting careful investigations. As a basis for understanding this concept and addressing the content in the other three strands, students should develop their own questions and perform investigations. Students will: [|Investigation Report Template] - click here to get a copy of the report template we will use this year. Use it to write reports at home!
 * 1) Heat moves in a predictable flow from warmer objects to cooler objects until all the objects are at the same temperature. As a basis for understanding this concept:
 * 2) Students know energy can be carried from one place to another by heat flow or by waves, including water, light and sound waves, or by moving objects.
 * 3) Students know that when fuel is consumed, most of the energy released becomes heat energy.
 * 4) Students know heat flows in solids by conduction (which involves no flow of matter) and in fluids by conduction and by convection (which involves flow of matter).
 * 5) Students know heat energy is also transferred between objects by radiation (radiation can travel through space).
 * 1) Develop a hypothesis.
 * 2) Select and use appropriate tools and technology (including calculators, computers, balances, spring scales, microscopes, and binoculars) to perform tests, collect data, and display data.
 * 3) Construct appropriate graphs from data and develop qualitative statements about the relationships between variables.
 * 4) Communicate the steps and results from an investigation in written reports and oral presentations.
 * 5) Recognize whether evidence is consistent with a proposed explanation.
 * 6) Read a topographic map and a geologic map for evidence provided on the maps and construct and interpret a simple scale map.
 * 7) Interpret events by sequence and time from natural phenomena (e.g., the relative ages of rocks and intrusions).
 * 8) Identify changes in natural phenomena over time without manipulating the phenomena (e.g., a tree limb, a grove of trees, a stream, a hill slope).