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| Social Studies is an integrated study which increases students’ fundamental understanding of their role as a citizen in the community, state, nation, and world. Students acquire and use the skills of individual and group inquiry to examine cultural diversity necessary to cope and succeed in an interconnected and interdependent world. Therefore students will be required to think creatively and critically about the past in order to solve present, past, and future problems. As a result of their Social Studies education , they are prepared to be active productive citizens in a democratic society. |
- Social studies will be studied K-12 by every student with activities that are developmentally appropriate.
- Through vertical and horizontal alignment Social studies will be sequenced in a manner to avoid major gaps and repetition.
- Social studies will be a vital component of Interdisciplinary Studies.
- Social studies will involve active participation so students will become aware of contemporary society and develop the requisite skills to become engaged participants.
- Social studies will help students should provide repeated practice for using critical and creative skills in relevant situations for use in student study, presentations, and or classroom discussion.
- Social studies will help students recognize each person as a valuable individual, encourage respect for the civil rights of all people, and emphasize and celebrate student’s shared heritage
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