The Ancient Civilizations - Common Core Lessons and Activities is designed to supplement your Social Studies resources, adding new Common Core rigor, analysis, writing, inference, text-dependent questions, and more into your daily instruction.How to Use The Ancient Civilizations - Common Core Lessons and Activities book: Work through the lessons and activities as a class to teach your students higher-order thinking, analysis, and 21st century skills necessary to meet new Common Core expectations. [[ Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice These new skills. [[ Include technology, collaboration, presentations, and discussion in the activities as you desire - you can decide how in-depth to go. [[ Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards, right before your eyes!