Social Studies courses in high school draw on many different disciplines and provide students with exposure to a broad range of ideas, all of them aimed at promoting civic competence.
The curricula typically vary from school to school, but Social Studies courses have traditionally drawn together elements of World and United States history, global perspectives, government, and geography. The courses usually combine reading from text books with classroom lectures, along with the use of primary sources and artifacts that teach high school students to think and learn like scholars. The concepts, information and practices the students are exposed to help to build an informed and well-balanced view of the world around them, preparing them for further study at the college level and in their personal lives.
Introductory History sections help to prepare the student for understanding their world, combining it with social sciences like geography and sociology. They learn about different regions of the world in a historical context, often beginning around the Age of Exploration in the early 15th Century. These are connected to the factors leading to European exploration and expansion, and the colonization of what was then known as the New World.
Sarah Eller Wake County has been teaching Social Studies in the Wake County Public School System for nearly five years. She places great emphasis on the influences of European countries on North America starting in the late 15th Century, focusing in particular on the motivations and actions of those nations that first began settling the Americas, and the development of the thirteen English colonies.
The curricula typically vary from school to school, but Social Studies courses have traditionally drawn together elements of World and United States history, global perspectives, government, and geography. The courses usually combine reading from text books with classroom lectures, along with the use of primary sources and artifacts that teach high school students to think and learn like scholars. The concepts, information and practices the students are exposed to help to build an informed and well-balanced view of the world around them, preparing them for further study at the college level and in their personal lives.
Introductory History sections help to prepare the student for understanding their world, combining it with social sciences like geography and sociology. They learn about different regions of the world in a historical context, often beginning around the Age of Exploration in the early 15th Century. These are connected to the factors leading to European exploration and expansion, and the colonization of what was then known as the New World.
Sarah Eller Wake County has been teaching Social Studies in the Wake County Public School System for nearly five years. She places great emphasis on the influences of European countries on North America starting in the late 15th Century, focusing in particular on the motivations and actions of those nations that first began settling the Americas, and the development of the thirteen English colonies.