At the elementary level, social studies instruction takes place during 2-3 hour-long blocks per week taught within students’ regular classrooms. The units of study are aligned with the grade-level content prescribed in the Massachusetts curriculum frameworks and follow a developmentally appropriate progression that first examines oneself in relation to family, then local community, and then the larger world. While engaging with the content, the curriculum focuses on developing in students the critical skills necessary to become engage, informed, responsible citizens. Major topics addressed at each grade include:
Grade Major Topics/Themes K
All about me
Family
Class and community rules
School community
Map of classroom/school
Town community - Westwood community (helpers, jobs, and services)
Introduction to money, buying and selling
1
U.S. national holidays
Patriotic symbols and songs
Famous Americans
Neighborhood and town mapping
World political map features
Location of town, state, and country on a world map
Jobs and products
2
Personal history timeline
World geography with an emphasis on continents, oceans, and countries
World map/geography in context of family origins
Native Americans - Major tribes of North America
3
Columbus and Vikings
World geography
Colonization: Roanoke, Jamestown, Plymouth, and the Pilgrims
Colonial Massachusetts history to 1776 (The Puritans, colonial life, Westwood history, pre-revolution)
Massachusetts geography
Economics (barter and trade, natural resources of Massachusetts
4
Geography and natural resources of North America (U.S., Canada and Mexico)
Regions of the United States
Building a nation - in context of regions, economics, immigration, westward expansion
5
Compare maps of the modern world with historical maps Age of Discovery/exploration and encounters
Aztecs, Incas, and Mayans
European settlements in North America: colonization and encounters
American Revolution
The Constitution and the formation of the U.S. federal government
Economics: entrepreneur, profit, supply and demand, import/export, taxation
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