Social Studies
At D39C, social studies has more of a global perspective from a young age. All students will learn about the people, places, ideas, and forces that have shaped the human story. Students will experience inquiry-based explorations of topics through the use of artifacts, art, architecture, simulations, drama, and primary source documents.
Overview History/SS CONTENT for Planing
Unifying Themes
These themes represent different lenses that can be applied to the teaching and learning of the Key Ideas and Conceptual Understandings in social studies. This work comes from the C3 Framework and is only the Disciplinary Focus. This is being used to rewrite State Standards for History/Social Studies by the year 2016.
Themes at a Glance
K-8 Thematic Focus Areas based Dimension 2 of the C3 Framework. Italics are areas not currently addressed by the C3 Framework but are vital to understanding History and Social Studies.
Civics
Civic and Political Institutions
Power, Authority, Governance, and Reform
Use and Abuse of Power and Limitations of Power by Societies
Participation and Deliberation
Process, Rules, and Laws
Ways laws change
Economics
Economic Decision Making
Science and Technology fuels the Drive to Innovate
Exchange and Markets
Creation, Expansion, and Interaction of Economic Systems
The National Economy
The Global Economy
Geography
Geographic Representations
Human-Environment Interaction
Culture
Individual Development and Cultural Identity
Social Structures
Human Population: Spatial Patterns and Movements
Migration and Trade Allows for Cultural Diffusion
Global Interconnections
Global Connections and Exchange
History
Change, Continuity, and Context
Perspectives
Historical Sources and Evidence
Causation and Argumentation
C3 Themes at a Glance
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Complete K-8 Matrix of the College, Career, Civic Life Framework (C3)
Focus areas for the Alexandria Plan
K-8 Literature-Based History Using Common Core
U.S. Eras World Eras
"The study of history is a study of causes," wrote E. H. Carr in What is History? More than most other thinkers, historians have endeavored to explain why things happen. They are interested in the relationship between continuity and change.
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