var sub3gr0="<h2>Kindergarten Social Studies</h2><p><strong>Focus</strong>: Me and others in the world around me; breads of the world; how is my world affected by the past? <strong>Concepts</strong>: Diversity in the classroom and world; change occurs as time passes; similarities and differences in people's characteristics, habits and living patterns; differences between past and present. <strong>Highlights:</strong> Weekly field trips that explore San Francisco and the Bay Area.</p>"; 
var sub3gr1="<h2>1st Grade Social Studies</h2><p><strong>Focus</strong>: Friendship; food; post office. <strong>Concepts</strong>: Community; interdependence. <strong>Skills</strong>: Understanding roles, routines and communication within a community; how we rely on others; exploring cultural customs and traditions; recognizing ways in which culture influences people’s habits and living patterns; identifying symbols, events and customs of various cultures. <strong>Highlight</strong>: Running a school post office.</p>"; 
var sub3gr2="<h2>2nd Grade Social Studies</h2><p><strong>Concepts</strong>: Classroom and school community, family and community, mapping, changemakers. <strong>Skills</strong>: Conduct interviews and document oral history, investigate change over time; examine multiple perspectives in past and present; analyze interdependence of natural resources, communities, and culture, use self-made maps; understand the role of responsibility in interdependence; celebrating heritage and diversity. <strong>Highlights</strong>: guest speaker series.</p>"; 
var sub3gr3="<h2>3rd Grade Social Studies</h2><p><strong>Focus</strong>: San Francisco, communities, culture, geography, diversity, activism. <strong>Concepts and Skills</strong>: People and their community; why people move from one place to another; people help change their communities; geographic features of the globe affect communities; local economy and government impacts local community. Identify the similarities and differences in communities around the world; locate and map local community in relation to the world; understand the historical significance of individuals who have helped make a difference in their community; identify structure and function of the local government. <strong>Highlights</strong>: Experiential field trips around San Francisco.</p>"; 
var sub3gr4="<h2>4th Grade Social Studies</h2><p><strong>Focus</strong>: Geography, native Americans in California, European expansion into California, The Gold Rush. <strong>Concepts + Skills</strong>: Causes of migration into and within California; social, political, economic and cultural forces that shaped the lives and interactions among people from the pre-Colombian societies through the Gold Rush; creating time-lines and maps; researching and reading non-fiction, representing past through oral presentations, writing, role-playing, debating and creating models. <strong>Highlight</strong>: A living history overnight field trip to Fort Ross during which every student takes on the role of a person who lived in Fort Ross in the year 1812.</p>"; 
var sub3gr5="<h2>5th Grade Social Studies</h2><p><strong>Focus</strong>: Application of careful research and imagination to understand United States history; multiple perspectives. <strong>Concepts</strong>: Historical empathy; the story of the development of a nation; Native American cultures and geography; ongoing encounters between Native Americans and European-American colonists; slavery; the promises of the Declaration of Independence; structures and functions of the government; causes of the Civil War; social justice. <strong>Skills</strong>: using multiple sources in research; analyzing primary and secondary sources, questioning and critical thinking; using strategies to select topic, plan approach, locate information, organize and prepare a research project.</p>"; 
var sub3gr6="<h2>6th Grade Social Studies</h2><p>Integrated with language and literacy in a humanities course. <strong>Focus</strong>: ancient civilizations – Egypt, Greece, Rome, China, geography, world religions. <strong>Routines</strong>: civilization comparison and contrasting, simulation activities, map study, vocabulary study, test-taking skills. <strong>Texts</strong>: History Alive, atlases, Facing History and Ourselves. <strong>Projects</strong>: Research essay, wiki page production, Great Wall of China model.</p>"; 
var sub3gr7="<h2>7th Grade Social Studies</h2><p>Course content is interdisciplinary with Language and Literacy. <strong>Focus</strong>: Africa, Holocaust, Europe/Middle East, and US/Southern Border. <strong>Routines</strong>: Map studies, thinking routines, interactive notebooks, vocabulary studies, use of primary sources, assuming multiple perspectives, identifying recurrent themes and patterns that connect the units. <strong>Texts</strong>: History Alive, primary sources, maps drawn during different time periods, atlases. <strong>Projects</strong>: Group map creation, R.A.F.T, historical research essay, individual country research, wiki page production, web page production, class blog.</p>"; 
var sub3gr8="<h2>8th Grade Social Studies</h2><p>Integrated with Social Studies in Middle School Humanities program. <strong>Focus</strong>: American Revolution, Constitution, Westward Expansion Civil War, Civil Rights Movement. <strong>Routines</strong>: Journal writing, Literature discussions, Independent reading, Read aloud, Weekly vocabulary, Post-its for literature notes, History notes. <strong>Literature</strong>: Things Fall Apart, Animal Farm, Catcher in the Rye, The Pearl, A House on Mango Street, Warriors Don\'t Cry. <strong>Projects</strong>: Persuasive letters, propaganda posters, political party, original constitutions, Monument proposals for unsung activists, Literature essays, fables.</p>";