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What is Social Studies?

Social studies is to prepare students to be informed, thoughtful and engaged citizens. which is to enrich their communities, state, nation, world, and themselves. social studies also address tough subject matter even at the elementary level. At the Elementary level, they address everything but holidays.

What's Included?

There are 4 different content areas that are included wiht teaching social studies. First content area is history which is both American and World history. The second content area is Civics/ Government, so this area teaches the different types of government and how to be a good citizen. The third area is Geography, this area teaches about maps and how to locate different things on the map. The last area is Economics, this are teaches aobut the different resources and the production and consumption.

How is it taught in Elementary Education?

Teaching social studies in an Elementary school is more having students know and what they should be able to do. Something else is to give them something to DO not something to learn. which is also the doing of such nature as to demand thinking. all of these help students measure their educational growth.

There are only 5 standards in Social Studies, and they are: Choices have Consequences, Rights/ Responsibility, Societies are shaped by Identities, beliefs, and Practices, Continuity and change over time, and Dynamis Relationships. Then there are 4 benchmarks which are: History (American, World), Civis/ Government, Geography, and economics. And then there are 6 scope and sequence which each grade is something different, but they all connect to each other. And those area are Sense of self, families, then/now, communities, Kansas/ region of United States, U.S. history-1800, and World History.