Horseheads High School
Social Studies
Horseheads High School will be a safe, trusting, and collaborative environment that develops lifelong, self-directed learners. We believe that all students can learn and gain accomplishment in a technologically advanced global society. Our mission is to ensure that all graduates will have the skills and knowledge to achieve success in a progressive society.
The Social Studies Department is committed to district's mission and dedicated to implementing the following New York State learning standards in our ongoing efforts to maximize student success.
| Standard 1: | History of the United States and New York |
| Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in the history of the United States and New York. | |
| Standard 2: | World History |
| Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in world history and examine the broad sweep of history from a variety of perspectives. | |
| Standard 3: | Geography |
| Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the geography of the interdependent world in which we live-local, national, and global-including the distribution of people, places, and environments over the Earth's surface. | |
| Standard 4: | Economics |
| Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of how the United States and other societies develop economic systems and associated institutions to allocate scarce resources, how major decision-making units function in the United States and other national economies, and how an economy solves the scarcity problem through market and nonmarket mechanisms. | |
| Standard 5: | Civics, Citizenship, and Government |
| Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the necessity for establishing governments; the governmental system of the United States and other nations; the United States Constitution; the basic civic values of American constitutional democracy; and the roles, rights, and responsibilities of citizenship, including avenues of participation. |