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Lower School teachers have been thinking together about the goals we set for social studies, in particular the conceptual goals that underlie our projects, trips and written tasks. As much as in literacy or math, we design a program to reflect students’ developmental orientation. We meet them where they are, tapping into their interests and curiosity within the framework of their realm of understanding. For example, we know that the younger child learns through concrete, personal experience – a trip or interview is a springboard for extended learning as your child reflects, questions, draws and writes about an exciting experience, turning it into new and deeper understanding. As the student matures and her worldview broadens, she extracts more and more information from books and symbolic communication, linking this to direct, interactive experience. Eventually, around Third Grade, students are ready to leave what we call the ”here and now” and enter the world of “long ago and far away;” to study those things that cannot be visited directly, tasted or touched. Thanks to the experiential foundation of their earlier years, eight and nine year olds are prepared to appreciate the flow and evolution of history and to conceptualize a timeline leading from then to now.

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Trinity School

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United Nations International School

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York Prep

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Professional Children's School

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Hewitt School

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Nightingale-Bamford School

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Brearley School

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Rudolf Steiner School

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Spence School

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Queens

Renaissance Charter School

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Far Rockaway High School

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Jamaica High School

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Townsend Harris

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Martin Van Buren High School

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Kew-Forest School

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Forest Hills High School

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Martin Luther High School

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Francis Lewis

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St. Clare's School

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Staten Island

Staten Island Academy

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St. Joseph Hill Academy

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St. Peter's Boys High School

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CSI High School

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St. John Villa Academy

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Staten Island Technical High School

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Curtis High School

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Susan E. Wagner High School

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St. Joseph by the Sea High School

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New Dorp High School

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Brooklyn

Clara Barton High School

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Brooklyn Friends School

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Berkeley-Carroll School

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Poly Prep Country Day School

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Samuel J. Tilden High School

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Bishop Ford High School

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Bronx

Cardinal Hayes High School

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The Bronx High School of Science

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Cardinal Spellman High School

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Aquinas High School