Social Studies

Social Studies

Middle school students study American history: 

6th Grade:

• Map Skills and Geography
• Native American History in the Americas
• European Exploration
• Early Colonies in the Americas
• The COlonies that became the United States

7th Grade:

• Election Process - Electoral College and Popular Vote
• Constitution
• Bill of Rights
• Early Republic
• Jacksonian Era
• Manifest Destiny
• Sectionalism and Reform
• The Road to the Civil War
• U.S. Constitution Test
• Springfield Trip

8th Grade: 

• Election Process - Electoral College and Popular Vote
• Illinois Constitution Test
• Civil War
• Reconstruction
• Gilded Age
• World War I
• Roaring 20's
• Great Depression
• World War II

Students also prepare weekly current event reports and discuss current election cycles as they study the Illinois Constitution in 7th grade and the U.S. Constitution in 8th grade.