Curriculum

Foundational Objectives History 10

·         Understand that humans establish various kinds of organizations as a means of systematically meeting their needs and wants

·         Understand that individuals within organizations must have some way of resolving differences and making and enforcing conclusions so that a collective course of action can be carried out;

·         Understand that industrial societies are based on a complex system of political and economic organizations, which makes possible the production of goods and services;

·         Understand that whenever groups, societies, or nations interact, they do so according to patterns of beliefs and values which are both implicitly and explicitly accepted by the members of the group; and,

·         Understand that nations must live within a community of other nations in which the sovereignty of one nation must be reconciled with the sovereignty of another.

The values objectives are to help students:

·         Appreciate the necessity of interdependence within human relationships;

·         Appreciate the legitimate constraints that interdependence places on the actions of individual and nations; and, 

·         Appreciate the need for social organizations to bring order to social life.

The Five Main Concepts of the Course

Of the twenty core concepts around which the social studies curriculum is organized, there are five which figure prominently in Grade Ten Social Studies and History.

·         Interdependence – The concept of interdependence underlies the study of social organizations. There would be no need for social organizations if people were not independent.

·         Social Institution – Students will explore the organizations which have been established to organize our lives.

·         Decision-Making – Students will study how political and economic decisions are made at the national and international level.

·         Power – Students will further develop their understanding of this concept by exploring political and economic decision making.

·         Ideology – Students will examine the role ideology plays in the economic and political decision-making processes of social organization.