Middle School History

Overview

History is a dynamic, contested, evidence-based discipline that involves an exciting engagement with the past. It is a rigorous intellectual discipline, focused around key historical concepts such as change, causation and significance.
History is an exploratory subject that fosters a sense of inquiry. It is also an interpretive discipline, allowing opportunity for engagement with multiple perspectives and a plurality of opinions. Studying history develops an understanding of the past, which leads to a deeper understanding of the nature of humans and of the world today.
The aims of the study of Individuals and Societies, is to:

Encourage the systematic and critical study of: human experience and behaviour; physical, economic and social environments; the history and development of social and cultural institutions. 
Develop in the student the capacity to identify, to analyse critically and to evaluate theories, concepts and arguments about the nature and activities of the individual and society.  
Enable the student to collect, describe and analyse data used in studies of society, to test hypotheses and interpret complex data and source material.  
Promote the appreciation of the way in which learning is relevant to both the culture in which the student lives and the culture of other societies  
Develop an awareness in the student that human attitudes and opinions are widely diverse and that a study of society requires an appreciation of such diversity  
Enable the student to recognize that the content and methodologies of the subjects of Individuals and Societies is contestable and that its study requires the toleration of uncertainty.  
History is a dynamic, contested, evidence-based discipline that involves an exciting engagement with the past. It is a rigorous intellectual discipline, focused around key historical concepts such as change, causation and significance.
History is an exploratory subject that fosters a sense of inquiry. It is also an interpretive discipline, allowing opportunity for engagement with multiple perspectives and a plurality of opinions. Studying history develops an understanding of the past, which leads to a deeper understanding of the nature of humans and of the world