Elementary Social Studies Update

 The Elementary Social Studies Curriculum Development Team 

has started monthly curriculum development!

Teams spent time digging into the Social Studies Standards for the skills students need to acquire and the purpose for which they are learning the skills.  From these skills and purposes, the team has finalized the 2022 Social Studies Learning Targets.  The Targets represent the value that is placed upon student's ability to engage in the Arc of Inquiry that is the foundation of Social Studies Learning.  The 2022 targets are listed below.

As this team engaged in studying the Arc of Inquiry and the Standards, they compared and contrasted them with the instructional framework of elementary Social Studies: Engage: Investigate: Report: Take Action.  The IMPACT Resource we have adopted will guide you to facilitate instruction through a framework that prepares students for inquiry, argument and action within an integrated content approach. The targets are as follows:

The Targets (known as dimensions) and their alignment to the instructional framework are represented below:

If you have read this far, FANTASTIC! Also know that we have begun the process of determine the scope and sequence so that we can start developing our unit plans.  Our goal is to determine three Social Studies Units per grade level that will support teachers to teach 6 week units opposite Science in grades K-5, one unit per Trimester (El programa dual utiliza los estudios sociales para el desarrollo del lenguaje inglés y será dirigido para enseñar a diario)

Unit Planners are under development with the goal to have Unit 1 complete this fall!

Please see your building social studies representative for more information on their experience.  We will meet again on October 28th!