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Little Red Schoolhouse

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New York City

Little Red Schoolhouse

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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Stuyvesant High School

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York Prep

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Townsend Harris

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St. Clare's School

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Convent of the Sacred Heart

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Martin Luther King High School

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Cathedral High School

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Robert F. Kennedy

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Brearley School

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Trinity School

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Samuel J. Tilden High School

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St. Joseph Hill Academy

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Chapin School

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Dwight School

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Long Island

Valley Stream Central High School

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New Hyde Park Memorial High School

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Carle Place Middle/High School

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Herricks Middle/High School

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Floral Park Memorial High School

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Locust Valley Middle/High School

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Wheatley School

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Mineola High School

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South Side High School

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Westhampton Beach High School

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Elmont High School

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Wyandanch Memorial High School

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Division Avenue High School

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Garden City High School

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MacArthur High School