{"id":129,"date":"2015-06-19T09:39:46","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T09:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/anntest3\/?page_id=112"},"modified":"2015-11-12T14:37:31","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T14:37:31","slug":"social-studies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/cumbernauldprimary\/social-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';font-size: small\">Social studies includes experiences and outcomes in historical and geographical, social, political, economic and business contexts.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';font-size: small\">It is important for children and young people to understand the place where they live and the heritage of their family and community.<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';font-size: small\">Through social studies, children and young people develop their understanding of the world by learning about other people and their values, in different times, places and circumstances, and how their environment has been shaped. They learn about human achievements and to make sense of changes in society, conflicts and environmental issues. With greater understanding comes the opportunity to influence events by exercising informed and responsible citizenship.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';font-size: small\">Learning through social studies enables children and young people to:<\/span><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000dd;font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';font-size: small\">broaden their understanding of the world by learning about human activities and achievements in the past and present, political, social and environmental issues, and the values underpinning their own society and other societies<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000dd;font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';font-size: small\">develop the capacity for critical thinking, through accessing, analysing and using information<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000dd;font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';font-size: small\">form their own beliefs and view of the world and develop their understanding of different values, beliefs and cultures<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000dd;font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';font-size: small\">establish firm foundations for lifelong learning and, for some, for further specialised study and careers.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social studies includes experiences and outcomes in historical and geographical, social, political, economic and business contexts. &nbsp; It is important for children and young people to understand the place where they live and the heritage of their family and community. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/cumbernauldprimary\/social-studies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-129","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/cumbernauldprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/cumbernauldprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/cumbernauldprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/cumbernauldprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/cumbernauldprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/cumbernauldprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/cumbernauldprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/129\/revisions\/465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/cumbernauldprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}