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Social Studies Curriculum

KIndergarten to Grade 8
Adopted July 17, 2002
Committee Members

Course Titles, Overview and Units of Study

Kindergarten: Who Am I?
  Unit 1: All About Me
  Unit 2: Getting Along
 
Grade 1: Being a Part of a Group
  Unit 1: Families
  Unit 2: Neighborhoods
 

Grade 2: Communities Near and Far

 

Unit 1: Ledyard

 

 Unit 2: Norwich or New London as an Urban Community
  Unit 3: Connecticut
 

Grade 3: Trip Around the World

 

 Unit 1: New England

 

 Unit 2: South or Southwest as a Region of the United States
  Unit 3: Deserts as a Region of the World
  Unit 4: Rainforests as a Region of the World
 

Grade 4: American History
  Unit 1: Native Americans
  Unit 2: Age of Exploration
  Unit 3: Colonization/Settlement

 

Unit 4: The American Revolution
 

Grade 5: American History
 

Unit 1: Federalism
 

Unit 2: The Technological Advantages of the United States
 

Unit 3: American Expansion
 

Unit 4: The Civil War
 

Grade 6: Cultural Geography of the Americas
 

Unit 1: Characteristics of a Nation
 

Unit 2: Location of Canada, Mexico, and Brazil
 

Unit 3: Government and Military of Canada, Mexico and Brazil
 

Unit 4: Economy, Natural Resources and Technology of Canada, Mexico and Brazil
 

Unit 5: Culture of Canada, Mexico and Brazil
 

Grade 7: Cultural Geography of the Eastern Hemisphere
  Unit 1: Climatology and Map Skills
  Unit 2: Seven Elements of Culture
  Unit 3: Five Themes of Geography
  Unit 4: Characteristics of a Nation
  Unit 5: Industrial Revolution
  Unit 6: Middle East
  Unit 7: Africa
  Unit 8: Asian Subcontinent
 

Grade 8: American History
 

Unit 1: Independence and the American Revolution
 

Unit 2: Federalism
 

Unit 3: Expansionism - Westward Movement
 

Unit 4: The Civil War
 

Unit 5: Reconstruction