Students learn to analyze and make judgments about a work, a position, a process, a performance, or another product or act. They reflect to consider purpose and perspectives, pinpoint evidence, use explicit or implicit criteria, make defensible judgments or assessments, and draw conclusions. Students have opportunities for analysis and critique through engagement in formal tasks, informal tasks, and ongoing activities.

Big Idea: Complex global problems require international cooperation to make difficult choices for the future.
Grade 6 Socials

·      media technologies and coverage of current events

 

·      Use Social Studies inquiry processes and skills to — ask questions; gather, interpret, and analyze ideas; and communicate findings and decisions

 
Big Idea:  Exploring stories and other texts helps us understand ourselves and make connections to others and to the world.

Grade 6 Language Arts

·      Access information and ideas for diverse purposes and from a variety of sources and evaluate their relevance, accuracy, and reliability

 

·      Synthesize ideas from a variety of sources to build understanding

·      Construct meaningful personal connections between self, text, and world

·      Select and use appropriate features, forms, and genres according to audience, purpose, and message

This is a little bit more detailed video about the Olympic game’s histories.   It talks more about the culture of Greece.  Students get a better picture of what life was like and how the Olympics first came to be.  It also talks about why the Olympics stopped for more than 1500 years.  It also talks about how the Olympics started once again.