What is curriculum?
Knowledge
- Social Sciences
- Humanities
- 21st Century Skills
Attitudes/Values
- Liberty and justice for all
- Democracy
- Treat others with respect
- Concern of common good
- ...
Skills
- Thinking skills
- Study skills
- Listening skills
- Speaking skills
- Vocabulary building skills
- Data processing skills
- Research skills
- Technological skills
Social Studies Curriculum Scope and Sequence
Patterns of curriculum organization in social studies
- Interdisciplinary approach in elementary and middle schools (eg. family, community, etc.)
- Separate subject approach in secondary schools (eg. world history, U.S. government, Economics, etc.)
- Multidisciplinary Approach in unit instruction in middle and high schools (State, Middle East, Canada, Globalization, Global Warming, etc.)
- Curriculum integration
- Infusion (Infuse writing into civic efficacy activities - cross curriculum)
- Fusion (The decision of human beings influence the survival of other living things - Interdisciplinary)
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