Social Studies
Across the Centuries
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Lessons at a Glance
- Lesson 1: Connections in the Roman Empire
- Lesson 2: The Expanding Horizon
- Lesson 3: Traveling Through the Past
- Lesson 1: The Fall of the Roman Empire
- Lesson 2: Acquainted Cultures
- Lesson 3: The Rise of the Byzantine Empire
- Lesson 1: The Roots of Mighty Empires
- Lesson 2: The Empire of Ghana
- Lesson 3: The Empires of Mali and Songhai
- Lesson 4: Village Society in West Africa
- Lesson 1: The Bantu Migration
- Lesson 2: The Rise of Coastal Trading States
- Lesson 3: The Rise of the Zimbabwe State
- Lesson 4: The Kongo Kingdom
- Lesson 1: An Emerging Empire
- Lesson 2: The Flowering of Chinese Culture
- Lesson 3: China and the Larger World
- Lesson 1: Land of the Rising Sun
- Lesson 2: A Developing National Culture
- Lesson 3: The Power of the Shoguns
- Lesson 4: Japan: Unified Yet Isolated
- Lesson 1: Europe After the Roman Empire
- Lesson 2: Daily Life in Feudal Europe
- Lesson 3: Two Feudal Societies
- Lesson 1: Europe at the End of the Middle Ages
- Lesson 2: The Italian Renaissance
- Lesson 3: Renaissance Life
- Lesson 4: Renaissance in Northern Europe
- Lesson 1: The Decline of Church Authority
- Lesson 2: Martin Luther and the Reformation
- Lesson 3: Era of Reformation
- Lesson 4: Scientific Revolution
- Lesson 1: Exploring, Trading, and Converting
- Lesson 2: Adventure and Profit
- Lesson 3: Exploring the Americas
- Lesson 1: A New Order of Ideals
- Lesson 2: Ideas in Action
- Lesson 3: Economic Changes
- Lesson 4: After the American Revolution
Unit Activities and Resources
Unit 1: Links to the Ancient World
- Activity: Understanding Primary Sources: The Justinian Code
- Activity: Traveling the Ancient World
- Internet Resources
- Activity: Understanding Primary Sources: The Islamic World
- Activity: Learning About Islam
- Internet Resources
- Activity: Understanding Primary Sources: A Visit to Mali
- Activity: Traveling through Sub-Saharan Africa
- Internet Resources
- Activity: Understanding Primary Sources: Marco Polo and China
- Activity: The Mongols
- Internet Resources
- Activity: Understanding Primary Sources: Two Sides in a Crusade
- Activity: Daily Life in Feudal Europe
- Internet Resources
- Activity: Understanding Primary Sources: Christopher Columbus's Journal
- Activity: The Renaissance
- Internet Resources
Unit 7: Civilizations of the Americas
- Activity: Understanding Primary Sources: Cortés Visits Tenochtitlán
- Activity: Retelling Inca History
- Internet Resources
- Activity: Understanding Primary Sources: The Bill of Rights
- Activity: Life in the American Colonies
- Internet Resources
From My Class to Yours -
Try these teacher-created activities to support and extend activities in Houghton Mifflin Social Studies textbook program.
A Closer Look - Add to your investigation of historical and cultural clues by visiting Internet sites on these topics.
- Conserving Mosaics
- The Great Mosque at Cordoba
- Trading Gold and Salt
- The Taj Mahal
- The Voyages of Zheng He
- Medieval Farming
- da Vinci's Notebooks
- The Spice Trade
- The Mayan Calendar
- Machu Picchu
- Morning at Versailles
A Moment in Time -Get your passport ready! Continue your travel through time to meet fascinating people and visit faraway places on the Internet.
Home School Connection
Literature Activity Masters -Just click on a book title below to go to the literature activity masters that support that title. Please note that Before Reading activities should be completed before reading the book and Read and Respond activities should be completed during or after reading the book.
- Sweet and Sour
retold by Carol Kendall and Yao-wen Li - The African Mask
by Janet E. Rupert - City of the Gods: Mexico's Ancient City of Teotihuacán
by Caroline Arnold, photographs by Richard Hewett - Magid Fasts for Ramadan
by Mary Matthews, illustrated by E.B. Lewis - Armor
by Charlotte and David Yue
Bibliography
Primary Sources on the Web
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