Social Studies Curriculum Framework, Outcomes, and Pacing Guide
Kindergarten
Curriculum Framework
Outcomes and Pacing Guide
Quarter 1
Quarter 2
Quarter 3
Quarter 4
First Grade
Curriculum Framework
Outcomes and Pacing Guide
Quarter 1
Quarter 2
Quarter 3
- 3A Units 4&5 : All Kinds of Jobs & Americans Long Ago
- 3B Units 4&5: All Kinds of Jobs & Americans Long Ago
- 3C Unit 3: Good Citizens
Quarter 4
Second Grade
Curriculum Framework
Outcomes and Pacing Guide
Quarter 1
Quarter 2
Quarter 3
Quarter 4
Third Grade
Curriculum Framework
Outcomes and Pacing Guide
Quarter 1
- 1A - Social Studies Handbook
- 1B – Unit 1: People Build Communities
- 1C – Unit 1: People Build Communities
- 1D – Unit 2: Communities Have History
Quarter 2
- 2A Unit 2: Communities Have History
- 2B Unit 2: Communities Have History
- 2C Unit 2: Living and Working
Quarter 3
- 3A Unit 3: Communities at Work
- 3B Unit 4: Communities Have Governments
- 3C Unit 4: Communities Have Governments
Quarter 4
Fourth Grade
Curriculum Framework
Outcomes and Pacing Guide
Quarter 1
Quarter 2
Quarter 3
- 3A Unit: Research Skills for History
- 3B Unit: Early Civilizations, Pre 1500
- 3C Unit: Exploration and Colonization, 1500-
Quarter 4
Fifth Grade
Curriculum Framework
Outcomes and Pacing Guide
Quarter 1
- 1A Chapter 1 Geography of the United States
- 1B Chapter 2 Native Americans and Their Land
- 1C Chapter 3 Native American Cultural Regions
- 1D Chapter 4 Why Europeans Left for the New World
- 1E Chapter 5 Routes of Exploration to the New World
- 1F Chapter 6 Early English Settlement
Quarter 2
- 2A Unit: Comparing the Colonies
- 2B Unit: Facing Slavery
- 2C Unit: Life in Colonial Williamsburg
- 2D Unit: Growing Tensions between the Colonies and Britain
- 2E Unit: To Declare Independence or Not
- 2F Unit: Declaration of Independence
Quarter 3
- 3A Unit: The Constitution
- 3B Unit: The Bill Of Rights
- 3C Unit: Manifest Destiny and Settling the West
Quarter 4
- 4A Unit: The Diverse Peoples of the West
- 4B Unit: The Causes of the Civil War
- 4C Unit: The Civil War
- 4D Unit: The Industrialization of Modern America
- 4E Unit: Economics
Sixth Grade
Curriculum Framework
Outcomes and Pacing Guide
Quarter 1
- 1A Challenges of Archaeologists
- 1B Chapter 2: Early Hominids
- 1C Chapter 3: Hunters and Gathers
- 1D Chapter 4: The Rise and Fall of Sumerian City-States
- 1E Chapter 5: Was Ancient Sumer a Civilization?
- 1F Chapter 6: Exploring Four Empires of Mesopotamia
- 1G Chapter 6: Continued
- 1H Chapter 7: Geography and the Early Settlement of Egypt, Kush, and Canaan
- 1I: Native American Tribes
Quarter 2
- 2A Chapter 8: The Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs
- 2B Chapter 15: Learning About Hindu Beliefs
- 2C Chapter 16: The Story of Buddhism
- 2D Chapter 36: The Origins and Spread of Christianity
- 2E Chapters and 11 and 12: The Ancient Hebrews and the Struggle to Preserve Judaism
Quarter 3
- 3A Chapter 13: Geography and the Early Settlement of India
- 3B Chapter 19: Geography and the Early Settlement of China
- 3C Chapter 21: Three Chinese Philosophies
- 3D Chapter 23: The Han Dynasty
- 3E Arizona
- 3F Chapter 25: Geography and the Settlement of Greece
- 3G Chapter 26: The Rise of Democracy
- 3H Chapter 29: The Golden Age of Athens
Quarter 4
- 4A Chapter 31: The Legacy of Ancient Greece
- 4B Chapter 33: The Rise of the Roman Republic
- 4C Chapter 34: From Republic to Empire
- 4D Chapter 35: Daily Life in the Roman Empire
- 4E Renaissance
- 4F Personal Finance
- 4G Nation Celebration
Seventh Grade
Curriculum Framework
Outcomes and Pacing Guide
Quarter 1
- 1A Chapter 20: African American Mid Century
- 1B Chapter 21: A Dividing Nation
- 1C Chapter 22: The Civil War
Quarter 2
- 2A Chapter 25: The Great Wave of Immigration
- 2B Chapter 24: The Rise of Industry
- 2C Chapter 26: The Progressive Era
- 2D Civics Chapter 14: Basics of Our Economic System
Quarter 3
- 3A Chapter 26: The Progressive Era (continued)
- 3B Chapter 27: America Becomes a World Power
- 3C Arizona History
- 3D Chapter 27: American Becomes a World Power (continued)
Quarter 4
- 4A Chapter 28: The Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression
- 4B Chapter 29: World War II
- 4C Chapter 32: Contemporary American Society
- 4D Civics: Chapter 3: American Citizenship
Eighth Grade
Curriculum Framework
Outcomes and Pacing Guide
Quarter 1
- 1A Chapter 6: Toward Independence
- 1B Chapter 7: The American Revolution
- 1C Chapter 8: Creating the Constitution
- 1D Chapter 9: Constitution: A More Perfect Union
- 1E Chapter 22: Voting and Elections (Civics Text)
Quarter 2
- 2A Chapter 27: America Becomes a World Power
- 2B Chapter 29: World War II
- 2C Chapters 29 and 30: The Cold War
- 2D Chapter 30: The Cold War (continued)
Quarter 3
- 3A Chapter 30: The Cold War (continued)
- 3B Chapter 30: The Korean War
- 3C Chapter 30: The Vietnam Conflict
- 3D Chapters 31/32 Contemporary American Society and Civil Rights
Quarter 4