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Baseball Challenge: Social Studies TCAP

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Using a baseball theme, this presentation provides a review of social studies topics covered in sixth grade. Students play a game in which they score based on the answers to various questions involving Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece, map skills, and more. This would be a fun and interesting way for students to review material. The questions could be altered to meet a teachers' needs.

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ancient greece, ancient civilizations, ancient rome, map skills, monarchies, the magna carta

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ancient greece, ancient rome, magna carta, map skills, monarchy, social studies
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6th
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Social Studies & History
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