The vision of the BHASD Social Studies Department is to cultivate the skills students will need in order to live an engaged and meaningful civic life. Throughout the course of the school year, students will be reading, writing, critically thinking, researching and analyzing information, and contributing to discussions. Students study will focus on history, geography, economics, civics and government from a global and diverse perspective. From Kindergarten through high school, students will move in a sequence that expands their awareness of self through home, school, community, state, region, country, and world. Students will be exposed to major cultural and geographic regions of the world. As they learn to reason and examine and evaluate past and current events, they will begin to develop an understanding of the fundamental ideas about government, economics and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.