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.
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.
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.
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.