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The Social Studies curriculum will prepare all students to live in the global community of the 21st century. This standards-based and developmental curriculum will challenge all students to develop literacy skills, intellectual curiosity, decision-making abilities, and critical and creative higher-order thinking skills. Therefore, all students will be motivated to become active, responsible, and open-minded citizens. The curriculum is designed to allow for a wide variety of learning experiences appropriate to students at each grade level. All students are provided opportunities to demonstrate knowledge and skills in the areas of history, geography, civics, economics, and behavioral sciences.
The major goals of the Social Studies curriculum are to:
Engage students through the inquiry process which includes developing questions and planning inquiry, applying interdisciplinary concepts and tools, evaluating sources and using evidence, and communicating conclusions and taking informed action.
Cultivate essential skills such as gathering and interpreting information from primary and secondary sources as well as electronic media, and to have students demonstrate an understanding of history and social studies issues in written work.
Develop and demonstrate an understanding of cultural contributions from various past and present civilizations.
Foster each student’s understanding of significant events and themes in United States history, world history, and international studies.
Understand the role of Connecticut in major events in United States history.
Social Studies standards are in alignment with the 2015 Connecticut Elementary and Secondary Social Studies frameworks. These frameworks are based on national C3 standards (College, Career, and Civic Life) and require that four major disciplines in social studies be taught:
Civics
Economics
Geography
History
The frameworks connect directly with the Connecticut Core Standards (CCS) for English/language arts and literacy in history and social studies. All units share skill standards, but not all standards are embedded in every unit.
Social Studies Units and Skills/Student Outcomes
What students should know and be expected to do by the end of the unit
Families:
My Self and My Family
Families:
My Self and My Family
Compare and contrast family life between different cultures
Identify different sources of information about our families
Explain why/how your family moved here
Understand the variety of family structures and relationships
Investigate how the past is represented through a sequence of events and the purpose of tools for representing time
Explore the ways that people from other times can be alike and different from people of today
Citizenship: My Self as a Classroom Citizen
Citizenship: My Self as a Classroom Citizen
Explore the roles and responsibilities of people within a family, school and community
Identify different sources of information about citizenship
Explain the purpose of rules in various settings inside and outside of school
Understand the rights and responsibilities of citizens
Describe roles and responsibilities of people in authority
Explain how all people play a critical role in the community
My Self
in My Community
My Self
in My Community
Identify how geography affects students’ daily lives
Identify different sources of information about our school community
Explore the purpose and function of maps
Use a map to identify specific and general locations, directionality, spatial relations and size
Construct maps, graphs, and other representations of familiar places
Use a map to observe how communities change over time
Analyze how people live differently in other places
Identify and classify natural resources on a map
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