Annual classroom license
New RST purchases cover one educator and their own students for 12 months and require annual renewal. School licensing for one RST title is $100 per year. District discounts apply. Read the annual terms and request a school or district quote. Previously accepted purchase terms remain applicable.
Room for complete responses
RST packages include labeled response pages for daily work and short answers. Each digital written-response field allows 1,000 characters. Each final RACE task has two dedicated writing pages with 48 ruled lines in print and digital continuation fields. Use the original questions and the matching page labels.
Grades 6–12 pathways
Purple Ma’at headers appear throughout the PDFs. Included grade band pathways connect evidence analysis and argument to NJSLS and Common Core for Grades 6–8, 9–10, and 11–12. Original readings and advanced content are retained, with scaffolding or extension by grade band.
Earliest Human Societies
Maps included Geographic activities include reference maps with a compass rose, scale, and legend. Modern reference maps are distinguished from historical maps. Updated October 15, 2026.
Explore African origins, migration, foraging, and farming villages through all five themes of geography and their impacts on early societies.
The five themes and their impacts
Students explain how location, place, region, movement, and human environment interaction shaped food, water access, shelter, migration, cooperation, and farming. Geographic features connect to human choices and effects rather than only definitions.
Five day sequence
- Day 1 African origins and archaeological evidence · Location and place
- Day 2 Migration from Africa to Eurasia, Australia, and the Americas · Movement and region
- Day 3 Foraging and cooperation · Place, region, and human environment interaction
- Day 4 Farming villages · Compare resources, land use, and social organization through all five themes
- Day 5 Assessment and RACE writing · 15 multiple choice questions and a 19 point writing rubric
NJSLS alignment
Core geography expectations 6.2.8.GeoPP.1.a and 6.2.8.GeoPP.1.b are anchored in the Grades 6 through 8 standards and extended for Grades 9 through 12. Teacher notes map lessons and assessments to these expectations, supporting archaeology and agriculture skills, and Grades 6–12 reading, writing, discussion, and map integration standards.
Complete set
student packet, 10 page daily teacher notes and standards guide, and separate 8 page answer key with model responses and rubric. Four readings, daily Do Now, Quick Write and exit tickets, vocabulary and word origins, maps and comparison charts. Teacher materials are included in the $39.99 price at no additional charge. PDF format.
Sample
View the Day 1 reading and response pages
Materials to prepare
The teacher supplies a world physical map or atlas and an outline map for annotation. Map investigation directions are included.
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