Social Studies is offered in Tolland Public Schools in all grades Kindergarten through grade twelve. The goal of the social studies program is to provide an integrated study of history, social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence. Social Studies draws from such disciplines as anthropology, archaeology, economics, geography, history, law, philosophy, political science, psychology, religion and sociology as well as appropriate content from the humanities, mathematics, and natural sciences. The primary purpose of social studies is to help young people develop the ability to make informed and reasoned decisions for the public good as citizens of a culturally diverse, democratic society in an interdependent world. (National Council for the Social Studies) In accomplishing this study emphasis is placed on content reading and writing.
Units of Instruction
The Progressive Era and Imperialism
World War I
The 1920s and the Great Depression
World War II
1945-1960 Foreign Affairs
1945-1960 Domestic Affairs
1960-1980 Foreign Affairs
1960-1980 Domestic Affairs
1980s to the Present