Social Studies Scope & Sequence (2023-2024)

Social Studies

Principles of Democracy

Principles & Processes of Governance

MO, US & World History

Economic Concepts & Principles

Geography

Relationships of Ind/Grps to Institutions & Traditions

Tools of Social Science Inquiry

K

• Recite Pledge of Allegiance
• Identify the American flag as a symbol for nation.
• Discuss the concept of individual rights.
• Identify why laws & rules are made
• Describe traits & responsibilities of people in families & groups.

• Participate in democratic decision process – voting
• Describe roles & responsibilities of people in authority in families & groups.

• Create a personal History
• Compare Family (Past & Present)
• Describe contributions of  George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Squanto, etc

• Basic Needs, food, shelter, clothing
• Scarcity Examples
• Opportunity Costs Examples

• Identify maps & globe
• Read, Construct, & use maps of familiar places (classroom, bedroom, home)
• Use symbols on a map
• Use positional words (below, above, front, back, left, & right)

• Describe cultural characteristics of your family & class members.
• Discuss how to resolve disputes
• Describe family cultural traditions & heritage.

• Label & analyze different sources
• Share findings about a topic
• Ask & answer questions about a topic
• Identify & use artifacts

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• Identify & explain why cities make laws.
• Discuss how individual rights are protected.
• Give examples of being an active & informed citizen in your classroom & community.
• Describe the character traits of role models within your community.
• Recognize & explain the significance of the Statue of Liberty, U.S. Capitol, Bald Eagle & the Liberty Bell.
• Recognize & explain the significance of symbols of your local community.

• How individual rights are protected
• How authoritative decisions are made, enforced, interpreted in schools & communities.
• What it means to make, enforce, carry out & interpret rules
• Describe roles & responsibilities of people in government.

• Contributions of people who are associated with national holidays, such as Martin Luther King Jr., Thomas Jefferson, Christopher Columbus.
• Compare & contrast our community in the past & present (e.g., schools, l& use, communication.

• Goods & services
• Relationship between consumers/consumption producer/production.
• Describe examples of scarcity within your school & community.

• Compass rose
• Cardinal directions
• Locate a place relative to another
• Identify globes as representations of real places.
• Read, construct, & use maps, which have a title & a key.
• Describe maps purposes.
• Identify physical characteristics of your community, such as climate, ecosystems,& relationships to water.
• Describe human characteristics of your community such as population, architecture, transportation, recreational activities, etc.

• Peaceful resolutions for classroom & playground
• Describe cultural characteristics of our school & community.
• Recount stories about people & events in your community.
• Describe how your community commemorates its cultural heritage.

• Visual, graphic & auditory aids (globes, maps)
• Primary & secondary sources
• Library & media resources
• Identify artifacts
• Share findings about a topic.
• Ask & answers questions about a topic with assistance.

Social Studies

Principles of Democracy

Principles & Processes of Governance

MO, US & World History

Economic Concepts & Principles

Geography

Relationships of Ind/Grps to Institutions & Traditions

Tools of Social Science Inquiry

2

• Majority rule
• Citizen’s rights/responsibilities
• Pledge of Allegiance

• Peaceful resolutions
• Branches and functions of government
• Laws and rules
• Identify/explain the concept of branches and functions of government

• National symbols including national landmarks, national parks, and important memorials
• Types of communication/ transportation and identify their advantages/ disadvantages
• Recall stories/songs that reflect the cultural  history

• Bartering to exchange goods and services
• Personal cost-benefit analysis
• Consumption/ production and the relationship to goods/services
• Goods/services
• Buy/sell goods/services
• Income, labor, wages

• Maps w/ title & key
• Properties and use of different types of maps
• Name/locate regions in your community
• Name/locate regions of the world (continents/oceans)
• Identify/describe physical characteristics of the world (Landforms/bodies of water)
• Regions and cultural heritage
• People settle more in one region than another
• Geography affects lifestyle

• Contributions of inventors who influence progress in our nation
• Culture in our community across multiple time periods
• Transportation/communication systems facilitate the movement of people, products, and ideas

• Types of primary and secondary sources
• Select/use artifacts
• Use visual tools to communicate information
• Fact/opinion
• Point of view
• Share research
• Develop supporting questions and a process to answer

3

• How individual rights are protected within our state
• Role of citizens and governments in Missouri
• Purposes and roles of government in Missouri

• 3 Branches of government in Missouri
• Identify the purpose of the Missouri Constitution
• Resolve disputes through courts in Missouri
• Resolve conflicts

• How does the national anthem symbolize our nation
• Other symbols of Missouri
• Influential/Famous Missourians
• Understand the movement of people in Missouri and the early settlers of Missouri
• The history of how Missouri was discovered, became a territory, and became a state
• Missouri’s role in Civil War
• Introduce Louisiana Purchase, Lewis and Clark expedition, and Westward expansion

• Define economy
• Cost-benefit analysis
• Natural, Capital, & Human Resources
• Define taxes & explain how taxes are generated & used.
• Compare/contrast private & public goods/services

• Explain the factors that influence changes in our state’s economy

• Identify Missouri’s 8 bordering states
• Locate Missouri’s major cities
• Locate the Mississippi & Missouri Rivers

• Describe and use a grid system
• Label Missouri’s 5 regions
• Identify & compare regions in Missouri (rural, suburban, urban)

• Compare how different people’s needs have been met in different ways in different cultures at various times
• Compare cultural characteristics of regions in Missouri with other states

• Describe how changes in communication & transportation technology affect people’s lives

• Primary & secondary resources
• Visual, graphic, & audio aids

• Identifying artifacts

Social Studies

Principles of Democracy

Principles & Processes of Governance

MO, US & World History

Economic Concepts & Principles

Geography

Relationships of Ind/Grps to Institutions & Traditions

Tools of Social Science Inquiry

4

• Purpose & principle of Declaration of Independence 
• Purpose & principle of US Constitution
• Purpose & principle of Bill of Rights
• Role of citizens carrying out constitutional principles
• Character traits & civic attitudes of historically significant individuals prior to 1800
• Knowledge of national and state symbols

• Explain how purpose & role of government were debated prior to 1800
• Dispute resolution by courts & others prior to 1800
• Process of governmental systems in decision-making
• ID & explain functions of 3 branches of federal government

• Movement of people from many regions of the world to North America
• Cultural conflicts among Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans (free & enslaved)
• Contributions of significant persons (founding fathers, explorers, etc)
• American Revolution
• Political developments & reform movements in the US
• Westward Expansion

• Compare/contrast saving & financial investment
• Conduct cost-benefit  analysis
• Taxes and their purpose
• factors that influence economy

• Read and construct maps
• concept of location
• concept of place
• Human-Environment interactions
• relationships between and among places
• relationships between and among regions
• use geography to interpret, explain and predict

• Cultural characteristics of all people
• Methods of resolving conflicts
• Ideas and beliefs of different cultures
• Cultural heritage and preservation
• changing societal roles and status of various groups

• Identify, select, analyze and evaluate resources to create product
• Use visual tools to communicate information and ideas
• Understand and supporting fact, opinion, bias and point of view
• Conduct and present research with appropriate resources
• Develop research plan and ID resources
• Conduct and present research with appropriate resources

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• Identify important principles in these historical documents:

-Declaration of Independence:  inalienable rights & consent of the governed

-Constitution:  limited government, rule of law, majority rule, minority rights, separation of powers, checks & balances

-Bill of Rights:  basic rights & freedoms

• Powers & functions of local, state, & national government

• Native American

Cultures:  Maya, Inca, Aztec & U.S. Eastern Woodlands, Plains, Pacific Northwest, Arctic & Southwest, Pueblo

• Exploration:  reasons for exploration, map of territories claimed in New World, impact on Native Americans, & Columbian Exchange
• Colonization:  reasons for colonization, locate & label map of 13 original colonies, group by New Engl&, Middle & Southern & compare development in each location

• American Revolution:  events leading to revolution, patriots, loyalists, main battles, why colonists were successful

• Apply these economic concepts to historical events: 

supply & demand, scarcity, opportunity costs

• Analyze & construct graphic organizers to:

• Locate & describe absolute & relative locations of real places, identify physical features such as climate, topography, regions & landforms, & locate cities & states of the United States

• Identify how:

a person becomes a member of a group or institution & how traditions have changed over time in the United States 

• Use technological tools to:

• investigate & research using primary & secondary resources, oral interview, artifacts, journals, documents, photos, letters, create maps, graphs, charts & timelines, recognize bias & point of view, & distinguish between fact & opinion

Social Studies

Principles of Democracy

Principles & Processes of Governance

MO, US & World History

Economic Concepts & Principles

Geography

Relationships of Ind/Grps to Institutions & Traditions

Tools of Social Science Inquiry

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Principles of Government

Caste system

Social order

City-States

Twelve Tables

Magna Carta

• Religions

-Hinduism

-Buddhism

-Confucianism

-Daoism

-Legalism

-Mythology

-Islam & Muslim

• Philosophers and Historians
• Powers & functions of government

-Hammurabi’s Code of Law

World Studies:

• Early Civilizations
• Ancient Egypt & Africa
• Ancient China
• Ancient India
• Ancient Greece
• Ancient Rome
• Ancient Japan
• Middle Ages

• Continents, Regions & hemispheres
• 5 themes of geography
• Political locations, physical features, & geographic characteristics of Regions
• Trade routes

• Culture across multiple  time  civilization, religions

• Use technological tools to:

investigate & research using primary & secondary resources, artifacts, journals, documents, photos, letters, maps, graphs, charts & timelines

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• Focus on the Declaration of Independence, early documents like the Magna Carta, English Bill of Rights, Glorious Revolutions.

• Evaluate laws, events & perspectives to determine the extent to which individuals & groups could participate in, & realize, the promise of American ideals.

• Study of American History from pre-Columbian to the French and Indian War.

• Compare the emerging economic characteristics of the nation & colonial regions to make predictions about future expansion & conflict

• Use maps to track European expansion across North America
• Use maps to explain major military campaigns in U.S. History from Early History to the French and Indian War.

• Analyze how ideas concerning women, American Indians & African Americans have changed throughout U.S. History

• Use archaeology, technology & the study of documents to heighten an understanding of early American History

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• Interpret important principles in the Dec. of Ind., U.S. Constitution & Bill of Rights

• Learn how to exercise civic rights/responsibilities as a U.S. Citizen (i.e., participation in election process, role in court system, etc.)

• Study of American History from the American Revolution through Reconstruction, 1877.

• Economic effects on region, nation & individuals, in past, present & future
• Compare the emerging economic characteristics of the nation and colonial regions to make predictions about future expansion and conflict

• Use maps to examine regional & sectional challenges between the north & the south via westward expansion prior to the Civil War.
• Use maps to explain major military campaigns in U.S. History from 1776-1848

• Analyze how ideas concerning American Indians & African Americans have changed throughout U.S. History

• Use archaeology, technology & the study of primary source documents to heighten an understanding of early American History & to develop critical thinking skills. 

Guidance

Principles of Democracy

Principles & Processes of Governance

MO, US & World History

Economic Concepts & Principles

Geography

Relationships of Ind/Grps to Institutions & Traditions

Tools of Social Science Inquiry

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Required courses

World Studies

● Rule of Law

● Democracy (Greeks)

● Republic (Rome)

● Humanism

● Enlightenment

● Age of Revolutions (American, Haitian, French, 1848)

● Expansion of democracy (20th century)

• Dictatorship
• Monarchism
• Oligarchism
• Aristocracy
• Democracy
• Republic
• Absolute Monarchism
• Constitutional monarchism
• Totalitarianism
• Representative Democracy

World Studies:

• Renaissance
• Age of Revolution
• Industrial Revolution
• Nationalism/Imperialism
• WWI/Great Depression/WWII
• Cold War
• Globalization

-Opportunity Cost/Scarcity

- Pre-modern economies (tribal exchange/bartering, slave societies, regional trade routes)

-Feudalism

-Mercantilism (Age of Exploration, hoarding of bullion)

-  Emergence of capitalism (England)

-Development of liberal economy, relationship with nationalism/imperialism

- Capitalism (laissez-faire, mixed economy)

-Socialism/Communism

• Locate major cities of the world and key world nations; the world’s continents, and oceans; and major topographical features of the world
• Use geography to

-Explain movement and access to resources

-Understand migration patterns

- evaluate wars and revolutions

• - describe the impact of new technologies

• Analyze the change in institutions over time (government, religion, economic)
• Evaluate the reaction to systemic change from government leaders to individual citizens (European Exploration, Age of Revolutions, WWI, WWII, Cold War, Globalization)
• Describe the shift in traditions in terms of geography, economics, and government

1. Chronological reasoning (causation, patterns of continuity and change, periodization)

2.Comparison/Contextualization

3. Crafting historical arguments from historical evidence

4. Interpretation/Synthesis

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Required Courses

American Government

*Must pass U.S. and Missouri Constitution Test

**EOC Tested

Principles of the Constitution (Lim. Gov., Pop. Sov., Sep. of Powers, Checks & Balances, Judicial Review, Federalism)

Foundations of democracy (individual worth, equality of opportunity, compromise, majority rules/minority rights, individual liberty)

Direct vs. representative democracy

Presidential vs. Parliamentary democracy

Civic duties vs. civic responsibilities

Natural rights/social contract (Locke)

• Government vs. Public Policies vs. Politics
• Compare democratic gov’t with dictatorships
• Theories of state formation and characteristics
• Structure of Constitution
• Due process and rule of law
• 3 Branches (Legislative, Executive, Judicial), how powers are separated and how checks are balanced
• Election process (primaries, generals, electoral college)

• Relevant English History/Colonial formation
• Causes and outcomes of American Revolution
• Failures of Articles of Confederation
• Constitutional Convention/Adoption
• New Deal (growth of executive)
• Great Society (challenging gov’t)/Civil Rights movement
• Reaganomics

• Opportunity Cost/Scarcity
• Capitalism vs. Mixed vs. Socialism vs. Communism
• Supply and Demand
• Fiscal Policy (Taxes, tariffs)
• Monetary Policy (Federal Reserve, interest rates)
• Special focus on differences between Art. of Conf. and Constitution (taxing power, interstate commerce, coining money)

• Distance between England and American colonies (salutary neglect, why colonies win the war)
• How American regions differ in political ideology?

• Analyze the perspectives of individuals and groups regarding the development of the American governmental system to explain emerging divisions and political philosophies.
• Evaluate the intended and unintended impact of government decision-making on individuals, groups, and society.
• Explain how political parties and interest groups reflect diverse perspectives and are influenced by individuals.
• Predict the consequences that occur when institutions fail to meet the needs of individuals and groups, and when individuals fail to carry out their personal responsibilities.

1. Chronological reasoning (causation, patterns of continuity and change, periodization)

2.Comparison/Contextualization

3. Crafting historical arguments from historical evidence

4. Interpretation/Synthesis

Guidance

Principles of Democracy

Principles & Processes of Governance

MO, US & World History

Economic Concepts & Principles

Geography

Relationships of Ind/Grps to Institutions & Traditions

Tools of Social Science Inquiry

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Required Courses

Dual Credit History Modern American

    History

Historical Foundations of U.S. Government

• Progressivism 1890’s-1910
• World War I 1920’s
• Depression 1903’s
• World War II 1940’s
• Cold War 1950’s, 1960’s, 1970’s
• Korean War 1950’s
• Vietnam War 1960’s
• Culture of Change 1970’s
• Modern History 1980’s to present

Government role in the economy

Current World Affairs

• Current Events of local, state, national & international events

Psychology

Dual Credit Psychology 101

• History of psychology
• Personality theories
• Learning
• Motivation
• Emotions
• Thinking
• Personality disorders

DC Sociology

• Personality development
• Ethics
• Race & Ethnics
• Roles in Society & Family
• Socialization Agents & Status
• Deviance from norms