Grade 6: Civics Content
- Concepts
- Government
- Constitutions
- Democracy
- Citizenship and civic life
- Civic values
- Nation-state
- Leadership
- Power
- Authority
- Law
- Public policy
- Interdependence
- Comparative government
- Rights of citizenship
- Human rights
- Content Understandings
- Governments of Eastern Hemisphere Nations
- Family, clan, and tribal groups act to maintain law and order.
- Across time and from place to place, the people of the Eastern Hemisphere have held differing assumptions regarding power, authority, governance, citizenship, and law.
- Governments change over time and from place to place to meet the changing needs and wants of their people.
- Present systems of government have their origins in the past.
- In modern political states, formalized governmental structures play a major role in maintaining social order and control.
- Political boundaries change over time and place.
- The values of Eastern Hemisphere nations affect the guarantee of human rights and the ways that human needs are met.
- The values of Eastern Hemisphere nations are embodied in their constitutions, statutes, and important court cases.
- The extent to which human rights are protected becomes a key issue in totalitarian societies.
- The crime of genocide crosses cultures and eras: Jews and other groups experienced devastation at the hands of Nazi Germany.
- International organizations have been formed to promote peace, economic development, and cultural understanding. The United Nations was created to prevent war and to fight hunger, disease, and ignorance.
- Citizens of the nations of the Eastern Hemisphere have rights and responsibilities as defined by their constitutions and by other laws of their nations.
