Students in American public schools typically take seven years of required social studies curriculum, from Grade 5 through Grade 11. Here are the standards for social studies in North Carolina public schools:
Preamble to Teaching Social Studies
Meeting the Needs of Students in the 21st Century
Essential Standards: Third, Fourth and Fifth-grade Social Studies
Grade 6: World Geography. Beginning of Human Society to the First Gilded Age
Essential Standards Seventh Grade Social Studies
Essential Standards Eighth Grade Social Studies
World History Course (usually 9th and 10th grades)
American History I: The Founding Principles
American History: Founding Principles, Civics and Economics
Social Studies Electives
- African American Studies
(doc, 178kb) - American Indian Studies
(doc, 181kb) - Latin American Studies
(doc, 171kb) - The Cold War
(pdf, 137kb) - Twentieth Century Civil Liberties, Civil Rights
(pdf, 125kb) - Turning Points in American History
(pdf, 104kb) - Psychology
(pdf, 55kb) - Sociology
(pdf, 100kb) - 21st Century Global Geography
(pdf, 168kb) - World Humanities
(pdf, 168kb) - American Humanities
(pdf, 118kb)
Teaching History's Slender Threads, Including 'What Ifs', Almosts, Alternatives and Turning Points 