Directions: Fill in each part of the App Lesson with your own original ideas.

Please look at the

sample provided on the class website. Provide 3 to 4 apps/steps for students to complete along
with a creative title, helpful description, and relevant SC teaching standards.

 There must be one app per step.

 Android apps can be used as long as all included apps are from the same platform.
 Lessons must cohesively link together 3 to 4 apps going from one focus/step of the lesson
to another.
 Lessons may include direct instruction provided the lecture contents are explained.
 Lessons may utilize web browser apps like Chrome or Safari to access website-based
tools. Link to the website in the write-up and the web browser app in the App Store web
link area.
 The final step in lessons must have students create a learning artifact from a creation-
based app (presentation, video, etc.) or screenshot of progress from a skill-based app
that students would submit to the teacher for assessment.

Title: …

Organization of the World

Relevant SC Standards: …

6.1.CO Compare the development of social systems among the early river valley civilizations.
This indicator was developed to prompt inquiry into a comparison between the first agricultural
revolutions on the development of social systems within early river civilizations.

6.1.CE Summarize how environmental factors influenced the interactions within and between
early civilizations. This indicator was developed to promote inquiry into why and how world
civilizations began to interact with one another and the results of those global exchanges.

6.1.P Analyze the shift from early to classical civilizations and the enduring contributions of
classical civilizations. This indicator was developed to promote inquiry into turning points in the
organization and transformation of the four major classical civilizations in China, Greece, India,
and Rome. This indicator was also developed to foster inquiry into the cultural and technological
advancements of the classical civilizations that continue to influence modern societies.
6.1.CX Contextualize the origins and spread of major world religions and their enduring
influence. This indicator was designed to promote inquiry into the development, basic tenets, and
impact of Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Daoism, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism in
relation to place and time.

6.1.CC Analyze changes and continuities that influenced the organization and technological
advancements of early and South Carolina Social Studies College- and Career-Ready Standards
Page 54 Key Concepts Standards classical world civilizations. This indicator was developed to
promote inquiry into changes and continuities in the formation and expansion of early and
classical world civilizations based on their interactions with their environments.

6.1.E Analyze multiple perspectives on the political, intellectual, and social achievements of
classical societies through a variety of primary and secondary sources.

Description:

This app lesson will develop 6th graders' understanding of the organization and
transformation of the world to 550.

Instructional Objective: Students will be able to...

Students will be able to understand the civilizations and structure of the world until the
year 550.

Step 1 Content-Based or Skill-Based App: Students will explore the different religions
of the world by looking at and choosing the areas that the religions reside in on the
world map.

https://www.sporcle.com/games/teedslaststand/world-religion

Step 2 Content-Based or Skill-Based App: Students will analyze the environmental

factors of the world in the early years by reading through the different factors of the
environment early on in the world.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X21009523

Step 3 Creation-Based (Learning Artifact) or Skill-Based App (Screenshot of

Progress): Students will look at the social classes of the middle age through a video,
article, and possibly even a quiz to learn about how the world worked and what the
people in different classes did for the world and their country.

https://study.com/learn/lesson/social-classes-middle-ages-system-hierarchy.html