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Grade-level themes and concepts are integrated across all disciplines and incorporate skills students need to acquire at each grade level:
List of 9 items.
Kindergarten
Theme: Self
Concepts: Pattern and Discovery
Grade 1
Theme: Family
Concepts: Connection and Change
Grade 2
Theme: Community
Concepts
:
Structure and Communication
Grade 3
Theme: City
Concepts:
Experience and Movement
Grade 4
Theme: Country
Concepts:
Exploration and Justice
Grade 5
Theme: History and Ancient Civilization
Concepts:
Culture, Progress and What is History?
Grade 6
Theme: Identity
Concept: Exchange and Memory
Grade 7
Theme: Self + Society: The Courage to Act
Concepts:
Society, Knowledge and Synthesis
Grade 8
Theme: The Quest for Social Justice: (Re)Inventing Society
Concepts:
Imagination, Resistance and Reflection
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