Social Studies

Einstein School has adopted AERO Social Studies Curriculum Framework.

In the AERO Social Studies Curriculum Framework, questions play a key role in curriculum design. These questions aid students in the exploration of the disciplines in relation to the standards, while others transcend individual disciplinary categories and allow students to develop the habits of mind required of a social scientist. Social scientists share similar practices which refer to those habits of mind that cross the disciplines of social studies. The term practices is used instead of skills to stress that engaging in social studies inquiry requires coordination of knowledge and skills (NRC, 2012).

Einstein School has adopted Project AERO because it also offer the IB Diploma Programme courses in Grades 11 and 12. As the framework makes clear, many of the AERO performance indicators in the prioritized social studies disciplines are met by the end of the tenth grade. Of those that remain, many could be comfortably taught within the framework of Group III (Individuals and Society) IBDP courses.

The standards are organized as follows:

• Standard 1: Time, Continuity and Change

• Standard 2: Connections and Conflict

• Standard 3: Geography

• Standard 4: Culture

• Standard 5: Society and Identity

• Standard 6: Government

• Standard 7: Production, Distribution, and Consumption

• Standard 8: Science, Technology, and Society

• Western World (Grade 6)

• Eastern World (Grade 7)

• Geography (Grade 9)

• World History (Grade 10)

• Business Management 11

• Economics 11

• Geography 11

• History 11

• Philosophy 11

• Business Management 12

• Economics 12

• History 12

• Philosophy 12

• Psychology 12