Teacher Resources
Curriculum Pacing Guides
Directions to the Online Text for Patterns of Interaction (For Students and Teachers)
National Academic WorldQuest Competition (DEADLINE 10/23)
Social Studies Links
- Review in Global History and Geography
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- Review in United States History and Government
- These two outstanding web pages from Prentice Hall allow you to test your knowledge with interactive multiple-choice and DBQ questions from actual Regents exams.
- Mr. History
- Look for "Review Information for the Regents Exam in Global Studies"
- HipHughes History
- Videos, notes, mp3's and much more, brought to you by one of BPS's own.
- Global History Regents Review
- Simply made page contains awesome links to useful videos, text and quizzes.
- Historyshack.com
- American History and Gov't Outline Regents Review notes.
- HistoryTeacher.Net
- Extensive review material for both Regents and AP courses.
- Global Regents review notes
- Long one page review sheet for Global Regents.
- SocialStudiesHelp.com
- American History and Gov't Review notes
- American History and Gov't Review Book.
- Free U.S. history review book courtesy of Uncle Sam.
- American History and Gov't Review notes.
- Fast facts for U.S. history students, written by a Queens Home Instruction teacher.
- Hippocampus American History
- Outstanding American history videos for both regents and A.P. review.
- Hippocampus American Government
- Outstanding American Government videos for both regents and A.P. review.
Social Studies Sequences
| Grade | eSIS # | Course Description Benchmark Program | Core Program and State Assessment | Textbook | Credit |
| K | | Self and Others | NYS Core Curriculum | Here We Go Scott Foresman | |
| 1 | SSE1G | My Family and Other Families, Now and Long Ago In this course students will focus on learning about their roles as members of a family and school community. The development of identity and social interaction are stressed. The students explore self, family, and school through the five standards. Students learn about families now and long ago, as they study different kinds of families that have existed in different societies and communities. Students also begin to locate places on maps and globes and learn how maps serve as representations of physical features and objects. | NYS Core Curriculum | All Together Scott Foresman | 0 |
| 2 | SSE2G | My Community and Other Communities Across the United States In this course students explore rural, urban, and suburban communities, concentrating on communities in the United States. The student’s own community can serve as an example for studying about and understanding other communities. Students study about communities from the perspectives of the five social studies learning standards. Community studies should include content examples from cultures other than the student’s own, and from a variety of perspectives including geographic, socioeconomic, and ethnic. Students continue to learn how to locate places on maps and globes and how different communities are influenced by geographic and environment factors. They also study about the rights and responsibilities of citizenship in their communities. | NYS Core Curriculum | People And Places Scott Foresman | 0 |
| 3 | SSE3G | Communities Around the World – Learning About People and Places In this course students learn about the social, political, geographic, economic, and historic characteristics of different world communities. Students study communities that reflect the diversity of the world’s peoples and cultures. They learn both Western and non-Western examples from a variety of geographic areas. Students also begin to study about historic chronology by placing important events on timelines. Students locate world communities and learn how different communities meet their basic needs and wants. Students begin to compare the roles of citizenship and the kinds of governments found in various world communities. | NYS Core Curriculum | Communities Scott Foresman | 0 |
| 4 | SSE4G | Local, New York State, and the United States This course builds on student’s understanding of families, schools, and communities and highlights the political institutions and historic development of their local communities with connections to New York State and the United States. The in-depth study of local government will emphasize the structure and function of the different branches and the roles of civic leaders. Students continue to learn about the rights, responsibilities, and duties of citizenship. By participating in school activities that teach democratic values, students develop a sense of political efficacy and a better understanding of the roles of supporters and leaders. Students expand their civic concepts of power, equality, justice, and citizenship as they learn about local government. | NYS Core Curriculum | New York Scott Foresman | 0 |
| 5 | SSE5G | The United States, Canada, and Latin America In this course students will study geographic, economic, and social/cultural understandings related to the United States, Canada, and nations in Latin American today. These perspectives build on and reinforce historic and political content about the United States included in the grade 4 social studies program. | NYS Core Curriculum NYS Elementary Level Social Studies Assessment | The United States Scott Foresman | 0 |
| 6 | SSE6G | The Eastern Hemisphere In this course students will emphasize the interdependence of all people, especially on Nation and regions in the Eastern Hemisphere. Many of the lessons will also compare and contrast information with similar data from the United States, Canada, and Latin America. | NYS Core Curriculum | The World Scott Foresman | 0 |
| 7 | SSE7G, SSE7H | The United States and New York State History: 1500 – Civil War In this course students will focus on learning about a chronologically organized study of United States and New York State history from pre-Columbian times through the Civil War. The students will explore social trends in United States history to parallel trends and times in New York State history through the five standards. | One period per day NYS Social Studies (Grade 7) Core Curriculum | The American Nation: Beginning to 1877 (Prentice Hall) 2003 | 0 |
| 8 | SSE8G, SSE8J | The United States and New York State History: Reconstruction to Present In this course students will focus on learning about a chronologically organized study of United States and New York State history from the reconstruction to the present. The students will explore social trends in United States history to parallel trends and times in New York State history through the five standards. | One period per day NYS Social Studies (Grade 8) Core Curriculum NYS Intermediate Level Social Studies Assessment | The American Nation: 1865 to Present (Prentice Hall) 2003 | 0 |
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| Grade | eSIS # | Course Description Benchmark Courses | Core Program and State Assessment | Textbook | Credit |
| 9 | GSO1R | Global Studies This course is a general survey of the major events and developments of world history. This course is organized chronologically with content topics that focus on the major time periods of classical and medieval eras. Significant movements in social, economic, and political systems will be discussed. Emphasis will be on students’ ability to ability to study and analyze global issues regarding politics, economics, society, and the environment. | One period per day, NYS Global Studies Core Curriculum | World History: Patterns of Interaction. McDougall Littell | 1.0 |
| 10 | GSO2R | Global Studies and Geography R This course is the concluding sequence of study of Global History and Geography. This course builds on the knowledge and skills students have acquired in their previous studies in Global History and Geography. This course is organized chronologically with content topics that focus on the major time periods of classical, medieval and modern eras. Significant movements in social, economic, and political systems will be discussed. Emphasis will be on students’ ability to study and analyze global issues regarding politics, economics, society, and the environment | One period per day, one semester NYS Global Studies Core Curriculum Regents Global Studies and Geography examination | World History: Patterns of Interaction. McDougall Littell | |
