TCAP PREP
TCAP testing is done by the state each spring in Tennessee schools. Each academic subject is divided into specific testing areas with criterion and norm referenced questions.(So what's the difference between criterion and norm referenced testing?)This link provides insight into each area and practice opportunities for students preparing for the test.
Sixth Grade Social Studies TCAP Practice Activities
Sixth Grade TCAP Practice Test
Online Basic Social Studies Skill Games
The Eighteen National Geography Standards
TOPICS BASED ON ASSESSED SPI OBJECTIVES
Barter Ecomomy
http://www.fi.edu/pieces/knox/barter.htm
Nomadic hunter-gatherers
http://www.creswell-crags.org.uk/virtuallytheiceage/index.html
Early agriculture
http://www.wsu.edu/gened/learn-modules/top_agrev/agrev-index.html
Silk Road
http://www.aasianst.org/EAA/silkroad.htm
http://www.silk-road.com/toc/index.nj.html
Trade Routes
http://intranet.dalton.org/groups/rome/RMap2.html
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/history/trade/variousroutes2.htm
Mapping
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/geospy/
http://www.graphicmaps.com/webimage/testmaps/maps.htm
Landforms
http://www.geocities.com/monte7dco/
http://www.kidsgeo.com/geology-for-kids/0032-understanding-landforms.php
http://vathena.arc.nasa.gov/curric/land/landform/landform.html#explore
Ancient Civilizations
http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/images/riv-vall.gif
Culture
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/channel/worldsapart/
http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/cquest/index.html
Migration and cultural diffusion
http://geog.tamu.edu/sarah/humangeog/migration8.html
Governments
http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/20c-govt.htm
Hammurabi’s Laws
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/hamcode.html
Magna Carta
http://www.thisnation.com/library/magnacarta.html
Caste System
http://www.friesian.com/caste.htm
Class system
http://www.pbs.org/peoplelikeus/
Religions
http://regentsprep.org/Regents/global/themes/beliefsystems/index.cfm
Written Language
http://www.ancientscripts.com/ws.html
Cuneiform
http://www.upenn.edu/museum/Games/cuneiform.html
Cartouche
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/cartouche/cartouche.html
Sanskrit
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&defl=en&q=define:Sanskrit&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title
Myths
http://www.planetozkids.com/oban/Home/home.html
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/mythology/hangman.html
Timelines
http://www.eyedocgreg.com/homeschool/timelines.htm
Greece
http://members.aol.com/MrDonnUnits/Greece.html
Weapons history
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A2522657
Printing Press
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/renaissance/printing.html
Dams and Dikes
http://www.arch.mcgill.ca/prof/sijpkes/arch374/winter2001/dbiggs/what.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/index.html
The wheel
http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/wheel.htm
Greece
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ancientgreece/main_menu.shtml
http://carlos.emory.edu/ODYSSEY/GREECE/homepg.html
Alexander the Great
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/alexander.htm
Rome
http://www.brims.co.uk/romans/
The Middle Ages
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/history/middleages/
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/medieval/index.htm
The Renaissance
http://www.twingroves.district96.k12.il.us/Renaissance/VirtualRen.html
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/glo/renaissance/
The Vikings
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/vikings/
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vikings/
Slave Traders
http://www.pbs.org/wonders/fr_e3.htm
http://www.click2history.com/slave_voices/slave_voices_ch1.htm
Inventors
http://www.cbc.ca/kids/general/the-lab/history-of-invention/default.html
Martin Luther
http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/wittenberg-luther.html
William of Normandy
http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/page18.asp
Joan of Arc
http://www.myhero.com/myhero/hero.asp?hero=Joan_Fredericksburg_Academy_03
Charlemagne
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/Blair/Courses/MUSL242/f98/charles.htm
Ramses II
http://www.egyptologyonline.com/ramesses_the_great.htm
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/egypt/history/timeline.html
Julius Caesar
http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/year7links/romans/Caesarmuderreport.pdf
http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/julius_caesar/index.html
http://www.nettlesworth.durham.sch.uk/time/romans.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/romans/
Socrates
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/people/ancient_epoch/socrates.html
Aristotle
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/people/ancient_epoch/aristotle.html
Marco Polo
http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/Marco/index.html
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/famouspeople/standard/columbus/index.shtml#focus
http://gardenofpraise.com/ibdcolum.htm
http://womenshistory.about.com/cs/medrenqueens/p/p_isabella_i.htm
Archaeologists
http://www.ology.amnh.org/archaeology/tools/index.html
http://www.ology.amnh.org/archaeology/bigideas/index.html
http://www.romansinsussex.co.uk/level1/whatis/index.asp
http://museums.ncl.ac.uk/flint/archaeol.html
http://r2.gsa.gov/fivept/fphome.htm
Anthropologists
http://www.sil.si.edu/SILPublications/Anthropology-K12/anth-k12.htm
Geologists
http://www.uc.edu/geology/geologylist/
http://www.kiwicareers.govt.nz/jobs/6a_phy/j26141a.htm
Historians
http://americanhistory.si.edu/kids/springer/
Art
http://www.artsmia.org/world-myths/artbytheme/index.html
Primary Sources
http://www.bergen.edu/pages/2443.asp
http://www2.chass.ncsu.edu/slatta/hi453/ps.htm
http://eee.uci.edu/faculty/losh/research/primquiz.html
http://www.multied.com/documents/index.html
Iliad and Odyssey
http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Quarters/2471/Troy.html
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/literature/homer.htm
Mahabharata
http://www.hindukids.org/stories/mahabarata/book1.html
http://web.utk.edu/~jftzgrld/MBh1Home.html
Ramayana
http://www.hindunet.org/ramayana/
Chinese Culture and History
http://www.friesian.com/sangoku.htm#china
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/China/scrapbook.html
http://www.chinavista.com/experience/
http://www.thestoryofyou.net/Waiting.html
Mesoamerica
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/latinamerica/index.shtml
Gupta
http://regentsprep.org/Regents/global/themes/goldenages/gupta.cfm
African History
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/africa/challenge.html
http://www.mnh.si.edu/africanvoices/
Review Questions Based on Social Studies Sixth Grade Assessed SPI’s
What is a barter economy?
What does nomadic mean?
What did agricultural development enable people to do?
What does domestication mean?
Where was the Tigris and Euphrates?
What civilization developed around the Twin Rivers?
Where was the Huang He?
What dynasty developed around the Yellow River?
Where is the Nile River?
What society developed around the Nile?
Where is the Indus River?
What culture developed around the Indus?
Where were the trade routes of the ancient world-the Silk Road, Persian trade, African caravan routes, Mediterranean Sea routes, and ocean travel?
What were some products traded in the ancient world and by whom?
What led the European countries to explore the world?
What role did colonization play in the economies of the world?
What are the important natural resources of the world?
How does controlling natural resources make a country strong?
What is the Law of Supply and Demand?
Name the cardinal and intermediate directions.
What does a map key show?
How is distance determined on a map?
How are latitude and longitude used to locate places on Earth?
What are the main land and water types of Earth?
How does geography change over time?
How have geographic features determined where people live and develop cultures?
What are the components of culture?
What is migration? What causes migration? What can migrate?
What is cultural diffusion?
How do graphs show trends and other information?
What have been some of the most important changes during history?
What are the main types of government?
How does citizen freedom change in different governments?
What is a monarchy?
What is a democracy?
Where did the idea of democracy originate?
What is a republic?
How did the Roman republic change to a dictatorship?
What was Hammurabi’s code?
What were the Ten Commandments?
What was Justinian’s code?
What was the Twelve Tables of Law?
What was the Magna Carta?
What is the US Constitution?
What are the roles in a caste system?
What parts made up the Feudal System?
What is a city-state?
What is an empire?
How are people placed in a social class system?
Name the important inventions of the ancient world and what group or person they came?
What are the major religions of the world, who founded them, when and where were they founded, and what are their main beliefs?
What are myths?
Name important myths and legends from history.
What does BCE mean? AD?
How many years in a decade? Score? Century? Millennium?
What is the difference between prehistory and history?
When and what was the classical period in Europe?
When and what was the Dark Ages?
When and what was the Renaissance?
What were the two main city-states of Greece?
Who was Alexander the Great?
How did the Roman Empire grow?
Who were the important rulers in Roman history?
Why did the Roman Empire fail?
Who was Joan of Arc?
Who was martin Luther?
Who was William of Normandy?
Who was Charlemagne?
What cultural groups of Europe came after the Roman Empire, where were they located, what was their culture like, and how did they divide Europe?
Who was Aristotle?
Who was Socrates?
Who was Ramses II?
Who was Marco Polo?
Who were King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella?
Who was Johannes Gutenberg?
What does an archaeologist do?
What does an anthropologist study?
What subject interest geologists?
What techniques does an historian use?
How did written language develop and spread?
What are primary sources?
What are secondary sources?
What is the root language for the Romance languages?
Who wrote the Iliad and Odyssey?
From what culture did the Mahabharata and Ramayana come?
What is hieroglyphics?
What is cuneiform?
What is Sanskrit?
How did the slave trade start and where did it start, and what impact did it have on Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas?
How did the Renaissance shift society in Europe from religious domination to science, philosophy, and art?
Identify five major revolutions.
Who were the important Renaissance scientists, artists, and explorers?
What was the Protestant Reformation?
What was the Age of Exploration?
Who were the famous explorers and where, when, and for whom did they explore?
What were the Western and Eastern African kingdoms?
Compare and contrast the Olmec, Maya, Aztec, and Inca?
How do civilizations build on previous ones?
Geographic Perspective(Refer to Social Studies Skills Page)
Five Themes of Geography and Five Themes Activities
Process and Investigation of Geography
Geography Activities-Destination Quest,Geography Quest,World Capitals
Historical and Cultural Perspectives
People, Places, and Events (Famous People-Biographies)
Process and Investigation of Historical and Cultural Concepts
Civics and Government Perspectives
Democratic Structure and Process of Government Systems and Forms of Government
Economic Perspectives
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