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This article describes the the ways that ancient rome continue to impact the world today. This resources is great because it can be adusted to meet your students reading level including 6th grade

This course from the OER Project provides complete lessons, videos, and other resources on the rise of agriculture and early societies, expansion and interconnection among civilizations, economic changes, and so much more!

Digital Storytelling of Ancient Egyptian creation myths. Tellling Ancient stories in a modern way. 

This is a lesson plan on how to introduce a Genius Hour project on Ancient Civilization architecture. Students will study what made these famous structures last.Preview image by PIXNIO

This is an extensive lesson plan that allows students to compare Ancient Egypt and Ancient Mesopotamia in terms of geography, religion, and government. Inquiry based.

Students learn about the experience of being an immigrant, which requires the traveler to plan for the journey, to pack, and to make difficult decisions. People from many cultures have created trunks or others containers to hold their belongings while they travel. The size of the carrying device limits the number of personal possessions, mementos, and material goods brought from home to begin a new life.

In this lesson on Indian culture, students will learn about Buddhism and Hinduism and their spread to other countries though trade.

In this lesson, students will learn about the prophet Muhammed, Islam's spread through Arabia, and will learn teachings from the Qur'an. From Spain to India, this lesson explains Muslim innovations in science, medicine and trade.

This lesson will introduce students to the five major religions in the world and their basic tenets.

This is a SHEG Activity that teachers the skill of contextualization. It uses Martin Luther's letters to show that the historical context effects what people do and think.

This resource is a Social Studies student activity that utilizes Utah's Online Library resources - specifically, Gale's Biography in Context, Gale Discovering Collection, and Gale Student Resources in context help students to learn about the Renaissance Art and Music era. 

This 18 day unit explicitly teaches text structures, summary, text features, reading informational text about Mesopotamia, and writing a book about Mesopotamia. Instruction moves from high scaffolding to moderate scaffolding to independent practice as students become familiar with the various text structures, how to identify them, what graphic organizer will work with each text structure, how to use notes recorded in graphic organizers to write summaries, and how to compile an informational book. Mesopotamia is the content used as an anchor.

This course from the OER Project provides complete lessons, videos, and other resources on much of world history, including the rise of cities, societies, and empires, regional webs, the first global age, industrialization and imperialism in the nineteenth century, World Wars I and II, the Cold War, and globalization.