Ancient Civilizations - Common Core Lessons and Activities

Common Core

by Carole Marsh

The Ancient Civilizations - Common Core Lessons and Activities is designed to supplement your Social Studies resources, adding new Common Core rigor, analysis, writing, inference, text-dependent questions, and more into your daily instruction.

How to Use The Ancient Civilizations - Common Core Lessons and Activities
Work through the lessons and activities as a class to teach your students higher-order thinking, analysis, and 21st century skills necessary to meet new Common Core expectations.
• Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice These new skills.
• Include technology, collaboration, presentations, and discussion in the activities as you desire - you can decide how in-depth to go.
• Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards, right before your eyes!

Click HERE to view sample pages from this book.


• Use some of the pages - or use them all - based on your grade, your students, your curriculum, and your needs.
• Use these pages at their current size, or if you prefer. Then to be 8.5" X 11", enlarge it to 125% on your copy machine.
• To download the graphic organizers labeled "GO" in the Table of Contents
• Use the correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson. The Ancient Civilizations - Common Core Lessons and Activities book
• Reading for Information
• Higher-Order Thinking
• Writing Problems
• Primary Source Analysis
• Vocabulary
• Graphic Organizers
• Map Activities
• And More!

The Table of Contents
River Valley Map Activity
The Gift of the Reading Informational Text
Egyptian Social Classify Information G Ancient Mesopotamian Reading Informational Text
Hammurabi’s Primary Source Analysis
India’s Caste Graphic Organizer G
Great Wall of Primary Source Analysis
Sayings of Primary Source Analysis G
Civilizations Vocabulary GO10
Characteristics of a Graphic Organizer G
Three Compare and Contrast GO2
The Reading Informational Text
Aztec Floating Problem-Solution
Montezuma’s Primary & Secondary Source Analysis
Accomplishments of the Reading Informational Text
Maya Beauty Cause and Effect
Ancient Greece Map and Text Activity
Achievements of Ancient Reading Informational Text
Greek and Roman Compare and Contrast GO1
Common Core Correlations

Includes Graphic Organizer
Graphic Organizer is also available 8.5" x 11" online
(numbers above correspond to the graphic organizer numbers online)

24 pages, ebook

Published August 24, 2015

About the author

Carole Marsh is a children's author and the founder of Gallopade International, a children’s book publishing company headquartered in Peachtree City, GA. Marsh writes mystery fiction in addition to works of non-fiction for children. Initially she self-published under the imprint Gallopade Publishing Group, which she founded in 1979; today Gallopade International is a major small publisher based in Peachtree City, Georgia.

In 2007 Marsh received the Georgia Author of the Year award for her contributions to children's literature and to the state of Georgia over the past twenty-seven years.