Elementary
Elementary social studies includes a broad range of subjects designed to build students' historical thinking skills, strengthen their social emotional understandings, and increase their literacy. General curriculum topics include:
Elementary social studies includes a broad range of subjects designed to build students' historical thinking skills, strengthen their social emotional understandings, and increase their literacy. General curriculum topics include:
Kindergarten: Moving around our world including locations, communities and their needs, directions, and maps
First grade: Exploring the world and diversity in our communities locally and globally
Second grade: Exploring the global community and comparing it to Arlington and its sister cities in Japan and El Salvador
Third grade: Exploring local history in Arlington and Massachusetts and how history informs the present
Fourth grade: Analyzing how the United States' history shapes its present
Fifth grade: Analyzing major moments in early United States history and their connections to today
Our talented teachers at the Elementary level incorporate social studies curriculum into an already rich slate of other subjects they teach. To learn more about the faculty at each level, please visit each school's website.
Our talented teachers at the Elementary level incorporate social studies curriculum into an already rich slate of other subjects they teach. To learn more about the faculty at each level, please visit each school's website.
