Social Studies 6-8

6th grade

Units of study may include:

  • Personal Finance

    • Monthly budgeting and goals setting

    • saving/spending

    • wages/income

    • expenses

    • Local financial institutions

    • Taxes (local/sales)

  • Geography

    • Understanding maps

    • Geographical features (town, state, region, country, continent, rivers, lake, oceans, etc.)

    • Climate

  • Maine Studies

    • Winslow local govt./history

    • Maine state govt.

    • Maine geography


7th grade

Units of study may include:

  • Geography review

  • Maine Native Americans

    • Connections to geography

  • Exploration

    • Mapping

  • Colonization

    • Early colonies in America

    • Impact of U.S. geography

    • RIghts/freedoms established in colonies

    • Characteristics of colonial regions

  • Revolution

    • Perspectives: colonial, British, neutral

    • Function and process of taxation

  • Constitution

    • Basic ideals, purposes, principles, structures and processes

    • Rights and responsibilities

8th grade

Units of study may include:

  • Thomas Jefferson/Louisiana Purchase

    • U.S. geography

  • Industrial Revolution

    • pros/cons of economic processes, economic institutions, and economic influences of diverse cultures

  • Westward Expansion

    • Native American groups; acquisition of lands, geographical features, Gold Rush, wagon trains, immigration, statehood, gov.

  • Mexican-American War

  • Slavery in the United States

  • Causes of the Civil War

    • Compare and contrast North and South in years leading up to war

  • Civil War Reconstruction

  • Progressive Era

  • Imperialism

  • WWI

  • Depression & WWII

  • Korea/Vietnam

  • Civil Rights