Grade: 6
Subject Area/Course Credit: Social Studies, 1 credit
Prerequisite: None
Social Studies at ZIS is a concept-driven, skills-oriented program that empowers students to explore how people, ideas, and environments shape our world. Across history, geography, civics, and economics, students examine human behaviour, cultural interactions, systems of power, and global challenges.
Students develop critical literacy, analytical thinking, and research skills by engaging with diverse sources, including maps, artifacts, documents, data, and media. Learning emphasizes questioning, collaboration, authentic inquiry, reflection, and student choice, with opportunities to connect learning to real-world issues. Assessment prioritizes reflection, growth, and agency, using varied formats, conferencing, and goal-setting. Classrooms foster resilience, risk-taking, and civil discourse.
Social Studies 6, students investigate early humans, the rise of civilizations, and global geography to understand how people, places, and environments shape one another. They build foundational skills in inquiry, mapping, and perspective-taking while learning how political, social, economic, and cultural systems develop and change over time. Throughout the year, students demonstrate their learning in meaningful and engaging ways that reflect their interests and strengths, including creative projects, presentations, models, writing, and spoken explanations.
- Unit 4: Man vs. Wild: How Nature and Geography Shape Us