History-Social Studies

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DIS students learn the importance of history in their lives - how it has shaped the world we live in today and how it will impact their future.

Fifth grade:

• pre-Columbian settlements
• early explorers
• cooperation and conflicts between native peoples and settlers in North America
• colonial era institutions
• the American Revolution
• expansion and settlement
• states and capitals

Sixth grade:

• Paleolithic era to agricultural revolution
• early civilizations
• Greece, India, China & Rome

Seventh grade:

• the decline of the Roman Empire
• the Middle Ages
• Meso-American and Andean civilizations
• the Renaissance
• the Reformation
• the Scientific Revolution
• political & economic change in 16th-18th centuries

Eighth grade:

• discovery and settlement
• founding of the colonies
• war for independence
• birth of our nation
• westward movement
• Native Americans
• Civil War
• Reconstruction
• the Industrial Revolution

• History-Social Studies