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.
Geography and Early 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.
Four connected Research Simulation Task units with daily writing, source analysis, collaborative inquiry, assessments, and separate homework.
Four complete inquiry units
- Five Themes of Geography Apply geographic thinking to community life, Lenapehoking, and African American migration.
- Global Map Components Interpret titles, legends, directions, coordinates, hemispheres, and map evidence.
- Geography of Africa Investigate regions, physical features, resources, settlement, and movement.
- Earliest Human Societies Examine African origins, migration, foraging, cooperation, and farming villages.
Complete package · Four PDFs
- student booklet with four five day sequences, Do Nows, Quick Writes, exit responses, source readings, organizers, and independent assessments.
- 65 page teacher companion with instructional guidance, assessment answer keys, rubrics, and a New Jersey alignment appendix.
- 20 page homework packet with one separate worksheet for every day of all four units.
- 20 page homework answer key with response guidance and suggested formative scoring.
Common Core literacy alignment
Reading and writing tasks practice Common Core literacy in History and Social Studies for Grades 6 through 8. Students use source evidence, geographic vocabulary, map and text integration, and organized explanations. The original Grade 6 readings provide the foundation; teachers adjust scaffolding and reasoning expectations for Grades 7 and 8. Literacy alignment supplements state subject content standards.
Homework that works at home
Each worksheet provides a brief reading or scenario, three questions, and full width writing lines. Suggested completion time is 10 to 15 minutes. Homework can be completed without internet access or a home atlas.
Classroom preparation
Provide classroom atlases and physical and political maps of Africa. The Global Map Components unit includes a reference map. Student pages and teacher materials are separate for convenient printing.
Preview the package
Open the three page sample showing the cover, a daily inquiry page, and one homework worksheet.
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