Program: Social Studies
Program Leader: Grades 5-8 Chris Sidoli
Grade Major Thrust of Curriculum Current Text Resources
  Early American Heritage: (Units) United States History: From Civil War to
        -Exploration Present  (Harcourt Horizon, 2003)
        -The American Revolution & Connecticut's role in Making Thirteen Colonies
5              Colonization   (Oxford, 1999)
        -Expansion Westward Time for Kids
  Geography related to the time periods & current events.
  Pioneer Theme/activity day in June.
  Ancient Civilizations:  geography, life, problems, The Ancient World,  (Prentice Hall 2002)
  social, political, economic, and religious systems. (Units) -        -Stone Age                                                                       Junior Scholastic
          -Tigris and Euphrates River Civilizations Desk maps/atlases
6         -Egyptian Assorted  resources for current issues
          -Greek World Almanac
          -Roman
          -Ancient China
          -Indus Valley
  Ancient Antics Theme/activity day in June.    
  Global Geography: current events, issues,  Geography Tools & Concept
  world problems and situations: Africa, Latin America, Europe and Russia
  Physical, economic, cultural, and political geography, Asia and The Pacific: (Prentice Hall 2001)
7 as well as the study of food, population and resources. World Almanac
  Students will select a country for a "The Nation Experience" Time for Kids
  applying geographic skills and concepts.
  Five day residential program - Nature's Classroom
  European History & the Development of the The Age of Europe,
  United States   (Scholastic, 1987)
  American thought as a product of European World Almanac
  development:
8 Religious, political, and democratic heritage;
  Background of Declaration and Constitution.
  Four day "Americana Trip"  in June.