The study of Social Studies at Solomon Schechter Day School enables students to understand the world and their place as Jews and global citizens in America.

Social Studies education at Solomon Schechter Day School:

• Is research- and inquiry-based
• Is focused around essential questions that help provide a larger context for student learning
• Includes focus on the core social studies areas including: political and economic systems, history, geography, social systems
• Engages students in active learning through exploration of photographs, documents, and other primary sources
• Incorporates reading and writing skills as part of the core curriculum
• Fosters discourse and reflective thinking skills
• Centers around collaboration
• Promotes critical thinking and analysis as students engage with content
• Integrates literature, music, art, and Judaic Studies

Our student social scientists grow in their ability to:

• Understand the world around them
• Identify ways they can impact and improve their world
• Read and use maps, globes, tables, and graphs
• Identify and analyze primary sources
• Ask questions
• Identify cause and effect
• Draw conclusions
• Identify facts and opinions
• Make generalizations
• Compare and contrast
• Describe events from different perspectives
• Write in a social studies context
• Identify historical sequence
• Identify main ideas and details
• Categorize and classify information
• Work in a variety of groupings – as a whole class, individually, in pairs, and in small groups
• Justify and explain their thinking
• Acquire the appropriate vocabulary

Grade level scope and sequence is available upon request.