It’s official: South Dakota has a new set of social studies ... 1763-1820 in fourth grade, then world history from 1300-1648 and American history from 1820-1908 in fifth grade. In third grade ...

Social studies in the early grades was especially affected by that legislation: kindergarten through second grade became reading, writing and math crunch time in preparation for the testing that ...

"exploring our world" in third grade and "making a difference" in fourth grade. Required social studies courses for grades nine through 12 are: • Civics. • Economics with personal finance.

Up until now, third ... grade appropriate" and from third grade for "redundancy." However, it is still included in the first-grade social studies curriculum). Grade 5 Amend section on the Civil ...

And the work isn't stopping at the third-grade level. The district's social studies department is also looking at revamping the ninth grade curriculum too.