Social Science
“Ensuring Student Success” is the mission of District 54. In the area of social science this means ensuring our students develop the ability to make informed and reasoned decisions for the public good as citizens of a culturally diverse and democratic society. Within the school program, social science provides a systematic study of history, geography, economics, political and social systems. For more information, contact:
Brian Eldredge
Director of Learning Technologies/Social Science
Bonnie Wisniewski
Social Science Secretary
(847) 357-5142
Essential Learning Outcomes for Social Science
HISTORY
Students will
- Recall information about the immediate past
POLITICAL SYSTEMS
Students will
- Begin to understand the reasons for rules
- Begin to participate in voting as a way of making individual choices
- Develop an awareness of the leaders in their immediate environment (i.e., parents and teachers)
GEOGRAPHY
Students will
- Locate objects and places in familiar environments
- Express beginning geographic thinking by using relative locations
ECONOMIC SYSTEMS
Students will
- Identify community workers and the services they provide
- Begin to understand the use of trade or money to obtain goods and services
SOCIAL SYSTEMS
Students will
- Recognize similarities and differences in people
- Understand that each of us belongs to a family
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HISTORY
Students will
- Describe what influenced the history of a local community
POLITICAL SYSTEMS
Students will
- Identify and explain local government leaders and services
GEOGRAPHY
Students will
- Understand the effects of geography on places in the world
ECONOMIC SYSTEMS
Students will
- Identify producers of goods and services in the community
SOCIAL SYSTEMS
Students will
- Understand social systems with an emphasis on the community
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Students will
- Trace the root causes of the American Revolution and analyze the effects that the Revolution had on America
- Analyze the rights and responsibilities of limited government as found in the Declaration of Independence
- Evaluate the role geography plays in the development of U.S. history
- Distinguish the difference between foreign and domestic policy
- Evaluate the main principles and structure of the Constitution
- Analyze the effects of western migration throughout U.S. history
- Compare and contrast the ways that Nationalism and Sectionalism affected the growth of the United States
- Explain the effect of choice and competition on individuals and its effect on the economy as a whole
- Analyze the factors involved in the institution of slavery and its consequences
- Explain important people, events and results of the Civil War
- Explain the effects of Reconstruction
- Explain the impact of post Civil War westward expansion
Students will
- Analyze the development of the American economic system
- Evaluate the impact of the U .S. Progressive Era
- Analyze historical trends of U.S. foreign policy
- Analyze the causes and effects of World War I
- Evaluate the causes and effects of the Great Depression
- Trace the involvement of the U.S. and the events that led up to World War II
- Analyze the consequences of discrimination – past and present
- Apply geography skills to the understanding of U.S. history
- Identify similarities and differences among world political systems: capitalism, communism, socialism
- Evaluate how Supreme Court decisions and federal legislation impacted the Civil Rights movement
- Analyze social unrest in American society
- Identify the effects of the Cold War on American foreign and domestic policies from 1945 through 1990
- Analyze the political, social and economic impact of the U.S. relationship with the Middle East
- Evaluate the domestic and foreign impact of the U.S. presidential administrations since 1976