Knowledge Network Learning Support Organization
High School Global Studies Interdisciplinary Curriculum
Dr. Kathleen M. Cashin, Ed.D, CEO
Course/Unit
History 1 – Ancient
World Civilizations
and Religions
Neolithic Revolution and
early river civilizations
Standards
1-4
Essential Question (s)
Students will understand :
Students will know and be able to:
Interdisciplinary
Connections/Resources
1. How do the movements 1. How we can use geography
of people, ideas (cultural
to understand how people
diffusion) affect world
live and work.
history?
2. How geography played a
2. How does technological
significant role on the
change affect people,
emergence of mankind and
places and regions?
the birth of civilization.
1. Analyze primary and secondary
source materials.
English Language Arts:
3. How do the movements 3. How man is able to adapt
of people, ideas (cultural
to his environment and
diffusion) affect world
improve life through new
history?
innovations in migration,
technology, change, needs
4. How do the movements
and wants,
of people, ideas (cultural
interdependence, food
diffusion) affect world
sources and technology.
history?
4. How we can use geography
5. How does technological
to understand how people
change affect people,
live and work.
places and regions?
5. How geography played a
significant role on the
emergence of mankind and
the birth of civilization.
4. Establish cause and effect
relationships.
2. Establish concepts of chronology
and sequence.
Interdisciplinary Novel Study - The Epic
of Gilgamesh
The Arts:
3. Construct hypotheses to account
for phenomena.
5. Analyze the influence of geography
on civilizations.
6. Analyze change from nomadic to
sedentary lifestyle.
7. Analyze primary and secondary
source materials.
8. Establish concepts of chronology
and sequence.
9. Construct hypotheses to account
Mysteries of Mankind, National
Geographic Society 1992 video
Migration Out of Africa
http://www.progonos.com/furuti/MapPro
j/Normal/ProjAppl/Img/ooa.png
Migration patterns of early humans
http://www.utexas.edu/features/2007/an
cestry/graphics/ancestry5_medium.jpg
The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Timeline
of Art History
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.
htm?HomePagLink=toah_1
Knowledge Network Learning Support Organization
High School Global Studies Interdisciplinary Curriculum
Dr. Kathleen M. Cashin, Ed.D, CEO
Course/Unit
Standards
Essential Question (s)
Students will understand :
Students will know and be able to:
for phenomena.
6. How man is able to adapt
to his environment and
improve life through new
innovations in migration,
technology, change, needs
and wants,
interdependence, food
sources and technology.
10. Establish cause and effect
relationships.
11. Analyze the influence of
geography on civilizations.
12. Analyze change from nomadic to
sedentary lifestyle.
Interdisciplinary
Connections/Resources
Knowledge Network Learning Support Organization
High School Global Studies Interdisciplinary Curriculum
Dr. Kathleen M. Cashin, Ed.D, CEO
Course/Unit
Classical civilizations
Standards
Essential Question (s)
1.
Students will understand :
Why do civilizations rise 1. What makes a civilization
and fall?
“classical?” What were the
contributions of classical
2. After it falls, what
civilizations to human
impact does a civilization
history?
have on history?
2. What was the status and
role of women in the
3. To what extent is life a
classical civilizations?
constant.
3. How do the geography and
climate of an area influence
4. Are conflicts between
the success or failure of a
nations and/or people
civilization?
inevitable?
4. How did geography affect
the rise of city-states in
Greece and the rise of the
Roman Empire?
5. What impact did the
monsoons have on the
historic and economic
development of the SubContinent?
6. How did the institution of
slavery fit within the
Athenian concept of
democracy?
7. What forces caused the rise
Students will know and be able to:
1. Understand the concept of a
Golden Age
Interdisciplinary
Connections/Resources
English Language Arts:
Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
2. Compare and contrast multiple
Golden Ages throughout history
3. Understand the spread and
influence of ideas along major
trade routes
4. Analyze the influence of
geography on the development of
ancient Greece.
Roman Twelve Tables
Pericles' Funeral Oration
The Iliad
The Odyssey
The Arts:
Selections from film The Gladiator
5. Compare and contrast ancient
Athens and Sparta
Buddhist Images Along the Silk Road
http://www.silkroad.com/images/kizilimg.jpg
6. Compare and contrast the
democracy of ancient Athens and
the democracy of the United
States
Ancient China
www.fordham.edu/halsall/eastasia/eastas
iasbook.html
7. Understand the influence of
Ancient Greece's contributions
(case study: Olympics)
8. Examine the spread and
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/
http://www.uh.edu/engines/zhobell.jpg
http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/ima
ges/hanmap.jpghttp://telegraph.co.uk/news/gr
aphics/2007/02/08/narmy08a.jpg
Greek Civilization
Knowledge Network Learning Support Organization
High School Global Studies Interdisciplinary Curriculum
Dr. Kathleen M. Cashin, Ed.D, CEO
Course/Unit
Standards
Essential Question (s)
Students will understand :
Students will know and be able to:
Interdisciplinary
Connections/Resources
and fall of these classical
civilizations?
8. How are contemporary
democratic governments
rooted in classical
traditions?
9. What impact did Greek
civilization have over time?
10. Why did the Chinese define
their history in terms of
dynastic cycles?
11. How did agriculture begin
in the Americas? What
were the earliest
crops? How did the Mayan
civilization and its
subsequent decline
compare to the river valley
and classical civilizations of
Afro-Eurasia?
12. Do the Mayans exist today?
13. To what extent did the Han
and Roman Empires
establish institutions and
define values that endured
for many centuries?
14. What technological
innovations were
preservation of Greek culture
through Hellenistic and later
societies.
www.historyguide.org/ancient/ancient.ht
ml
www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/aeg
ean/index.shtml
www.pbs.org/empires/thegreeks/
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
9. Compare and contrast Classical
Greece and Hellenistic Culture
10. Analyze the effects of geography
on the development of Ancient
Rome
11. Compare and contrast the Roman
contributions on later civilizations
(government and law)
12. Compare and contrast the Roman
Republic and basic Roman laws of
the United States.
Growth of Global Trade Routes
www.ess.uci.edu/~oliver/silk.html
http://www.silk-road.com/
Indian (Maurya) Empire
www.fordham.edu/halsall/india/indiasboo
k.html
www.hindubooks.org/sudheer_birodkar/h
indu_history/landmaurya.html
Mesoamerica – Mayan
www.learner.org/exhibits/collapse/mayan
s.html
www.civilization.ca/civil/maya/mmc03eng
.html
www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/spirits/html/b
ody_maya.html
13. Examine the effects of
engineering (roads, aqueducts)
and trade on the growth and
power of the empire
Status and Role of Women
www.womenintheancientworld.com/
http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0210200/a
ncient_greece/women.gif
14. Understand the causes and effects
of Cultural Diffusion
Roman Republic
www.historyguide.org/ancient//lecture11
b.htmlwww.wsu.edu/~dee/ROME/REPUBL
IC.HTM
15. Analyze causes, effects, and end
Knowledge Network Learning Support Organization
High School Global Studies Interdisciplinary Curriculum
Dr. Kathleen M. Cashin, Ed.D, CEO
Course/Unit
Standards
Essential Question (s)
Students will understand :
introduced during this
period?
15. What role did migrating
nomadic groups play in the
fall of the Han and Roman
Empires?
16. In what ways were the Han
and Roman Empires
similar? different?
17. What caused the fall of the
Han and Roman Empires?
Students will know and be able to:
of Pax Romana
16. Analyze causes of the fall of Rome
17. Examine the formation and
growth of the Byzantine Empire
18. Understand the importance of the
law codes
19. Examine the preservation of
Greco-Roman Culture
Interdisciplinary
Connections/Resources
The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Timeline
of Art History
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.
htm?HomePagLink=toah_1