Welcome to Social Studies

LPS Social Studies:

• Covers history, civics, geography, economics, political science, psychology;
• Helps students make informed decisions and work towards improving the community;
• Develops a strong sense of justice and fairness while learning respect for differing viewpoints;
• Gives students experience in predicting effects from causes, and creating hypotheses;

Social Studies instruction is:

• Meaningful–useful to the students and relatable to their lives;
• Integrated– a broad range of current knowledge is used in all curricular areas;
• Evaluative–students are taught to gather and analyze data;
• Challenging–several viewpoints on controversial topics are heard, giving the students multiple dimensions (e.g. legal, social or historical, ethical) to consider;
• Active–students are given multiple ways to participate in the learning process