Social Studies 10 (from 2026/27)

Grade: 10
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 10, students examine industrialization, religion, imperialism, revolution, inequality, and economic development through case studies in Asia, Latin America, Africa, and Europe. Students analyze how ideas and institutions shaped modern states, economies, and identities and how regions respond to global forces. Skills include historiography, source analysis, argumentative writing, and analysis of human and physical geography. Students demonstrate their learning through research essays, debates, position papers, presentations, and source analysis.