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Exploring the Ancient World: Engaging Middle School History with TCI

Welcome to "The Ancient World" program by TCI, where history comes alive for middle school students! Our K-12 curriculum, designed by teachers, merges essential content with meaningful technology and interactive classroom experiences. We aim to inspire young historians through engaging activities that meet state and national standards while catering to diverse learning styles. With lessons like "Ancient Sumer" and "The Rise of Democracy," students develop critical thinking, reading, and writing skills, making social studies both enjoyable and memorable.

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Exploring the Ancient World: Engaging Middle School History with TCI

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  1. Welcome! History Alive! The Ancient World

  2. What Is TCI? TCI is a K-12 publishing company created by teachers, for teachers. We believe the best teaching marries great content, meaningful technology, and interactive classroom experiences. The end result — students of all abilities and learning styles succeed.

  3. Middle School Program Goals • Teach students to think like historians. • Inspire students with memorable classroom activities. • Help teachers meet state and national standards. • Develop critical readers and skilled writers. • Make social studies an enjoyable and memorable class. • Build students’ social studies skills.

  4. Lesson: Ancient Sumer Students work in pairs in a Social Studies Skill Builder activity to learn about the characteristics of civilization and analyze artifacts to determine how each characteristic was exhibited in ancient Sumer.

  5. Lesson: The Rise of Democracy In an Experiential Exercise, students use the principles of monarchy, oligarchy, tyranny, and democracy to select and play music for the class, as a way to examine the various forms of government in ancient Greece that led to the development of democracy.

  6. The Ancient World Program Components Teacher Resources Student Resources

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