History-Social Science (HSS)

In San Luis Coastal Unified School District, students engage in History and Social Sciences guided by California’s grade level History standards and the California History Framework.

Curriculum

Elementary
Secondary

Elementary

TCI
Elementary grades use the TCI, Teachers Curriculum Institute Social Studies Alive curriculum with a focus on hands-on learning. K-3 focuses on the concepts outlined by CA’s History-Social Science standards along with the CA Framework of citizenship, geography and economics. Grades four and five move away from the thematic approach of the early elementary grades into a more narrative look at the histories of California and the colonial United States, respectively.

Image of resources used in the Social Studies Alive curriculum

Secondary

6th Grade - 8th Grade

In the middle grades, students study a wide range of history from ancient civilizations to the early history of the United States.

9th Grade - 12th Grade

Grades nine through 12 take students from an elective year (9th) to world history and geography from the late eighteenth century to the present (10th). 11th grade is a study of modern American History while 12th grade takes students through the Principals of American Democracy and the Principles of Economics.

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History-Social Science (HSS)

Curriculum

Elementary

Secondary