- Christina School District
- Social Studies
Social Studies
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Christina School District's Social Studies Program delivers well-balanced daily lessons that are aligned with Delaware’s standards. It combines the District’s required curriculum units with the state’s recommendations. Throughout the school year, students participate in a wide range of activities that are taught through civics, economics, geography, and history.Grade level units are listed below.
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Kindergarten
Unit 1: Follow the Rules-CitizenshipUnit 2: Looking At People-CultureUnit 3: Long Ago and Today-PatternsUnit 4: My Place on Earth-PatternsUnit 5: Workers All Around-WantsUnit 6: Supplemental Economic Lesson from the University of Delaware -
1st Grade
Unit 1: Going To School-CitizenshipUnit 2: Good Citizens-Citizenship & GovernmentUnit 3: The Land Around Us-ResourcesUnit 4: All About People-Culture & EnvironmentUnit 5: Looking Back-Patterns & ChangeUnit 6: Jobs People Do- Resources & Interdependence -
2nd Grade
Unit 1: Living in a Community-Citizenship
Unit 2: Our Government-Citizenship & GovernmentUnit 3: Looking at the Earth-ConnectionsUnit 4: Learn About People-CultureUnit 5: Past and Present- PatternsUnit 6: People at Work-Resources -
3rd Grade
Unit 1: Citizenship & Government-RespectUnit 2: Citizenship-CitizenshipUnit 3: Communities Are Everywhere-PatternsUnit 4: Working as a Historian-CultureUnit 5: Communities Over Time-InvestigationUnit 6: Resources & Production-Resources, Patterns, Connections -
4th Grade
Unit 1: Purposes of GovernmentUnit 2: Community Profiles-Diversity of Places & ConnectionsUnit 3: Liberty & CitizenshipUnit 4: Democratic Methods-Citizenship & ParticipationUnit 5: Thinking Chronologically- Patterns, Chronology & Cause and EffectUnit 6: Economic Systems-Interdependence -
5th Grade
Unit 1: Hometown-Patterns & CultureUnit 2: Constitution & Bill of Rights-CitizenshipUnit 3: Due Process-Government & Due ProcessUnit 4: Dueling Documents- Interpretation, Point of View & EvidenceUnit 5: Reasons for Banks-InterdependenceUnit 6: Thinking Economically-Trade, Interdependence, Specialization & Standard of LivingBizTown (optional)-Community, Economy, Financial Literacy, Work Readiness -
Middle School - Grades 6-8
The middle school social studies program focuses on four essential strands; geography, civics, economics, and history. At this level, students receive hallmarks of solid social studies instruction where they gain knowledge, skills, and habits of mind that prepares them for college, careers, and citizenship. Sixth graders explore the geographic origins of the major cultures, governments and religion, patterns of diffusion that were influenced by trade routes, and the concepts of core and periphery. Seventh graders continue to build essential skills needed to become an effective global citizen and learn how personal participation in social decision making empowers them to make positive changes in society. The middle school experience is capped in the eighth grade by returning to American historical, economic, and civic threads.
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High School - Grades 9-12
At the high school level students engage in sophisticated analysis of each of the four essential strands; geography, civics, economics, and history. The ninth grade Civics/Geography course combines an overview of our government system with an examination of contemporary and practical perspectives of geography. Students research problems, analyze data, and suggest solutions using a GIS-based approach. Tenth grade picks up with Economics and Personal Finance, while eleventh grade studies U.S. History from Reconstruction to the present. Twelfth grade students can elect to take courses such as; African American Studies, Psychology, Law in American Society, History of Rock and Sports, and Human Behavior.By the end of high school, Christina School District students will better understand events, trends, personalities, and movements in local, state, national and world history. They will grasp how the concepts of social studies can help interpret human actions and prepare them for careers, college, and lifelong learning.
Local and National Competitions
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Christina School District students learn when they are able to see the "big picture" rather than positioned as passive spectators in the classroom. Engaging students----deeply, passionately, and inquisitively--with context, knowledge, and that such learning not only enhances one's academic achievement, but offers opportunities for them to think differently about themselves and how they are connected to the world. The current secondary social studies program offers many experiential learning opportunities for students to participate in such as:Click on the below links to find out more about these local and national opportunities
Disciplinary Literacy
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Disciplinary Literacy strategies and skills are applied as students acquire information and communicate their learning and understanding in social studies. The integration of literacy and social studies is critical for student success. Christina School District students are explicitly taught research-based strategies that help to improve adolescent literacy. In today's world, students are bombarded with visuals, images, and information, that may not be credible sources of information. Sorting through primary and secondary sources of information requires that students formulate questions, think critically, and connect to multiple texts.
- Civic Literacy
- Financial Literacy
- Geographic Literacy
- Reading Like A Historian
