Grade 6 History & Geography
A free Grade 6 course from the PGAMO Free K–12 School, built on Core Knowledge History and Geography. Units: World Deserts, Ancient Greece and Rome, The Enlightenment, The French Revolution and Romanticism, The Industrial Revolution: Changes and Challenges, Independence for Latin America, Immigration, Industrialization and Urbanization in America, Reform in Industrial America.
Every lesson has the chapter’s pages to read right on screen, the Big Question, words to know, talk-it-over questions with answers for the teacher, and activity pages to print. Each unit ends with a short quiz, and every unit has a printable study pack for learning offline.
This course is based on an original work of the Core Knowledge® Foundation (www.coreknowledge.org) made available through licensing under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This does not in any way imply that the Core Knowledge Foundation endorses this work. PGAMO added the lesson pages, study packs and quizzes layout, and shares them under the same license. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Core Knowledge History and Geography. Free for everyone — this course may never be sold.
Features
- 82 lessons in 9 units
- The books’ pages right in each lesson
- Unit quizzes
- Printable offline study packs
Target audiences
- Grade 6 students
- Homeschool families and co-ops
Requirements
- Nothing to buy — every book is included free
- A parent or teacher to read and talk with younger students
Curriculum
- 10 Sections
- 83 Lessons
- 36 Weeks
- Start here1
- Unit 1: World Deserts7
- 2.1Chapter 1: What Is a Desert?30 Minutes
- 2.2Chapter 2: Deserts of Africa30 Minutes
- 2.3Chapter 3: Australia, a Dry Continent30 Minutes
- 2.4Chapter 4: Deserts of Asia30 Minutes
- 2.5Chapter 5: Deserts of North America30 Minutes
- 2.6Chapter 6: Deserts of South America30 Minutes
- 2.7Unit 1 quiz: World Deserts20 Minutes30 Questions
- Unit 2: Ancient Greece and Rome18
- 3.1Chapter 1: The Ancient Greek City-States30 Minutes
- 3.2Chapter 2: Athens30 Minutes
- 3.3Chapter 3: Sparta30 Minutes
- 3.4Chapter 4: The Olympic Games30 Minutes
- 3.5Chapter 5: The Persian Wars30 Minutes
- 3.6Chapter 6: The Golden Age of Athens30 Minutes
- 3.7Chapter 7: The Peloponnesian War30 Minutes
- 3.8Chapter 8: Greek Philosophy and Socrates30 Minutes
- 3.9Chapter 9: Plato and Aristotle30 Minutes
- 3.10Chapter 10: Alexander and the Hellenistic Period30 Minutes
- 3.11Chapter 11: The Roman Republic30 Minutes
- 3.12Chapter 12: The Punic Wars30 Minutes
- 3.13Chapter 13: Julius Caesar: A Great Roman30 Minutes
- 3.14Chapter 14: The Age of Augustus30 Minutes
- 3.15Chapter 15: Rome and Christianity30 Minutes
- 3.16Chapter 16: The Fall of the Roman Empire30 Minutes
- 3.17Chapter 17: The Heritage of Greece and Rome30 Minutes
- 3.18Unit 2 quiz: Ancient Greece and Rome20 Minutes25 Questions
- Unit 3: The Enlightenment7
- 4.1Chapter 1: Isaac Newton30 Minutes
- 4.2Chapter 2: René Descartes30 Minutes
- 4.3Chapter 3: Thomas Hobbes30 Minutes
- 4.4Chapter 4: John Locke30 Minutes
- 4.5Chapter 5: The Enlightenment in France30 Minutes
- 4.6Chapter 6: The Enlightenment in Action30 Minutes
- 4.7Unit 3 quiz: The Enlightenment20 Minutes26 Questions
- Unit 4: The French Revolution and Romanticism13
- 5.1Chapter 1: Roots of the Revolution30 Minutes
- 5.2Chapter 2: The Three Estates30 Minutes
- 5.3Chapter 3: The Absolute Monarchs30 Minutes
- 5.4Chapter 4: Queen Marie Antoinette30 Minutes
- 5.5Chapter 5: The Third Estate Revolts30 Minutes
- 5.6Chapter 6: A Time of Violence30 Minutes
- 5.7Chapter 7: Toward a New Government30 Minutes
- 5.8Chapter 8: From Monarchy to Republic30 Minutes
- 5.9Chapter 9: Religion, Culture, and Art30 Minutes
- 5.10Chapter 10: The Reign of Terror30 Minutes
- 5.11Chapter 11: Napoleon Bonaparte: Empire Builder30 Minutes
- 5.12Chapter 12: The Romantic Revolution30 Minutes
- 5.13Unit 4 quiz: The French Revolution and Romanticism20 Minutes25 Questions
- Unit 5: The Industrial Revolution: Changes and Challenges13
- 6.1Chapter 1: Effects of the Industrial Revolution30 Minutes
- 6.2Chapter 2: Before the Industrial Revolution30 Minutes
- 6.3Chapter 3: Moving Toward the Industrial Age30 Minutes
- 6.4Chapter 4: From Farms to Factories and Cities30 Minutes
- 6.5Chapter 5: The Rise of Capitalism30 Minutes
- 6.6Chapter 6: Adam Smith30 Minutes
- 6.7Chapter 7: Living in the Industrial Era30 Minutes
- 6.8Chapter 8: Protesting Industrialization30 Minutes
- 6.9Chapter 9: Robert Owen30 Minutes
- 6.10Chapter 10: Looking for a New Economic Order30 Minutes
- 6.11Chapter 11: Karl Marx30 Minutes
- 6.12Chapter 12: In Our Time30 Minutes
- 6.13Unit 5 quiz: The Industrial Revolution: Changes and Challenges20 Minutes25 Questions
- Unit 6: Independence for Latin America8
- 7.1Chapter 1: Revolutions in America30 Minutes
- 7.2Chapter 2: Toussaint L’Ouverture and Haiti30 Minutes
- 7.3Chapter 3: Mexico’s Fight for Independence30 Minutes
- 7.4Chapter 4: Mexico After Independence30 Minutes
- 7.5Chapter 5: Simón Bolívar the Liberator30 Minutes
- 7.6Chapter 6: Revolution in the South30 Minutes
- 7.7Chapter 7: Brazil Finds Another Way30 Minutes
- 7.8Unit 6 quiz: Independence for Latin America20 Minutes25 Questions
- Unit 7: Immigration6
- Unit 8: Industrialization and Urbanization in America11
- 9.1Chapter 1: The Industrial Giant30 Minutes
- 9.2Chapter 2: Railroads30 Minutes
- 9.3Chapter 3: Resources, People, and Capital30 Minutes
- 9.4Chapter 4: An Inventive People30 Minutes
- 9.5Chapter 5: Growing Business Enterprises30 Minutes
- 9.6Chapter 6: Monopolies, Trusts, and Pools30 Minutes
- 9.7Chapter 7: The World of the Worker30 Minutes
- 9.8Chapter 8: Workers Organize30 Minutes
- 9.9Chapter 9: The Urbanization of America30 Minutes
- 9.10Chapter 10: Growing Pains30 Minutes
- 9.11Unit 8 quiz: Industrialization and Urbanization in America20 Minutes25 Questions
- Unit 9: Reform in Industrial America8
- 10.1Chapter 1: The Populist Movement30 Minutes
- 10.2Chapter 2: The Muckrakers30 Minutes
- 10.3Chapter 3: Urban Reformers30 Minutes
- 10.4Chapter 4: Theodore Roosevelt30 Minutes
- 10.5Chapter 5: Reform for African Americans30 Minutes
- 10.6Chapter 6: Women’s Voting Rights30 Minutes
- 10.7Chapter 7: Eugene Debs and Socialism30 Minutes
- 10.8Unit 9 quiz: Reform in Industrial America20 Minutes23 Questions
Instructor

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