Social Studies 7

Grade: 7
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.
In Social Studies 7, students study sustainable cities, identity formation, colonization and resistance, and global citizenship. They analyze systems of power, identity construction, and community efforts toward justice and sustainability. Skills include critical inquiry, comparison, argumentation, research, and written and oral source evaluation. Learning is demonstrated through a variety of formats, including essays, podcasts, infographics, debates, and projects.