Social Studies

Grade(s)

6th

Subject(s)

Social Studies: Civics and Government

Length of Lesson

60 minutes

Lesson
Overview/Rationale
Curriculum
Framework/Standard

Students must know how other countries run their government

Students must learn the different forms of government

Compare and contrast various forms of government (e.g.,

democracy, parliamentary, dictatorships, oligarchy) around the
world.

Michigan K-12 Standards Social Studies pg.39

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to name the different forms of government

Students will be able to tie what they learn to real life (examples of
certain countries per form of government)
Students will gain skills in technology through creating a diagram
on inspiration diagram maker

Technology Uses

Internet search engines

Inspiration 9.0

Materials

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Textbooks
Notebooks for brain storming and sample diagram
Computers with inspiration software

Procedure

Explain the lesson to the students and show them the software,
allow for them to play around with the software.
Have the students choose four types of government to research
on the forms of government
Each student will do light research on the forms of governments
they chose
For each form of government, they must include: definition, brief
history, a real world example of this form of government
The students will then gather the research and use it to create a

Assessment

diagram on inspiration
Diagram must include pictures
Use in class time to monitor and allow students to ask questions

Grade them on presentation of diagram