Unit Overview: MythBusters
Spend the semester learning how to write and break all different types of codes. Explore codes using words, number, and pictures, and learn use them to create secret messages! As a grand finale students will try to stump our friends, family or teachers by “locking” them in a room and watching them try to break our codes. Come on in…..if you dare!
Enduring Understandings:
1. Codes may include a variety of symbols 2. Codes can change history 3. Codes are found everywhere around us 4. Creating and solving codes and ciphers is often a collaborative process |
Essential Questions:
A. How have codes shaped history? B. Why do we write and solve codes? C. Where do we find codes? D. How does collaboration aid in the process of creating and solving codes and ciphers? |
This Week's Lesson:
Objective: The students will be able to plan and implement puzzles to create an Escape the Room.
Vocabulary: code, cipher,
Standards: Grade 6 SS Standards
Strand 2: Concept 2
PO 1. Describe the lifestyles of humans in the Paleolithic and Neolithic Ages.
PO 2. Determine how the following factors influenced groups of people to develop into civilizations in Egypt, India, Mesopotamia, and China: a. farming methods b. domestication of animals c. division of lab or d. geographic factors Connect with: Strand 4 Concept 2, 4,6 Strand 5 Concept 1
PO 3. Describe the importance of the following river valleys in the development of ancient civilizations: a. Tigris and Euphrates - Mesopotami a b. Nile - Egypt c. Huang He - China d. Indus- India Connect with: Strand 4 Concept 1, 2, 4, 5
PO 4. Compare the forms of government of the followin g ancient civilizations: a. Mesopotami a – laws of Hammura bi b. Egypt – theocracy c. China – dynasty
PO 5. Describe the religious traditions that helped shape the culture of the followin g ancient civilizations: a. Sumeria, India (i.e., polytheism) b. Egypt (i.e., b elief in an afterlife) c. China (i.e., ancestor worship) d. Middle East (i.e., monotheism)
PO 6. Analyze the impact of cultural and scientific contributions of ancient civilizations on later civilizations: a. Mesopotami a (i.e., laws of Hammurabi) b. Egypt (i.e., mummific ation, hiero glyphs, papyrus) c. China (i.e., silk, gun powder/fireworks, c ompass)
Vocabulary: code, cipher,
Standards: Grade 6 SS Standards
Strand 2: Concept 2
PO 1. Describe the lifestyles of humans in the Paleolithic and Neolithic Ages.
PO 2. Determine how the following factors influenced groups of people to develop into civilizations in Egypt, India, Mesopotamia, and China: a. farming methods b. domestication of animals c. division of lab or d. geographic factors Connect with: Strand 4 Concept 2, 4,6 Strand 5 Concept 1
PO 3. Describe the importance of the following river valleys in the development of ancient civilizations: a. Tigris and Euphrates - Mesopotami a b. Nile - Egypt c. Huang He - China d. Indus- India Connect with: Strand 4 Concept 1, 2, 4, 5
PO 4. Compare the forms of government of the followin g ancient civilizations: a. Mesopotami a – laws of Hammura bi b. Egypt – theocracy c. China – dynasty
PO 5. Describe the religious traditions that helped shape the culture of the followin g ancient civilizations: a. Sumeria, India (i.e., polytheism) b. Egypt (i.e., b elief in an afterlife) c. China (i.e., ancestor worship) d. Middle East (i.e., monotheism)
PO 6. Analyze the impact of cultural and scientific contributions of ancient civilizations on later civilizations: a. Mesopotami a (i.e., laws of Hammurabi) b. Egypt (i.e., mummific ation, hiero glyphs, papyrus) c. China (i.e., silk, gun powder/fireworks, c ompass)