In the school year 2017-18 the Social Studies Office worked in a collaborative process to identify the following resource for the use in Social Studies classrooms.
Course/ Grade Level |
Publisher |
Resource and Components |
Grades K-3 | Various | Trade Books |
Grade 4 Virginia Studies | McGraw Hill | Social Studies: Virginia Studies Custom Edition |
Grade 5 Ancient World | Teacher’s Curriculum Institute | History Alive! World History! |
Grade 6 USHCE I Grade 7 USCHE II |
The DBQ Project Various |
American History and Civics DBQs Trade Books |
Grade 8 World Geo | The DBQ Project McGraw Hill |
World Geography DBQs Discovering World Geography |
World History I | The DBQ Project McGraw Hill |
World History DBQs World History and Geography: Early Years |
World History II | The DBQ Project McGraw Hill |
World History DBQs World History and Geography: Modern Times |
US/VA History | The DBQ Project McGraw Hill |
United States History DBQs United States and Virginia |
US/VA Government | McGraw Hill | United States and Virginia Government |
Economics and Personal Finance | Teachers Curriculum Institute | Econ Alive! The Power to Choose |
Psychology | McGraw Hill | Understanding Psychology |
Sociology | McGraw Hill | Sociology and You |
AP Government | McGraw Hill | American Democracy Now! |
AP Comp. Government | Wood Yard | AP Comparative Government and Politics: An Essential Coursebook |
AP World History | Pearson | World Civilizations: the Global Experience |
AP Psychology | BFW | Psychology, David Myers |
AP US History | BWF | America’s History |
AP European History | Cengage | Western Civilization |
AP Economics | Bedfort, Freeman and Worth | Krugman’s Economics |
IB Geography | Oxford | Geography and Course Companion |
IB Economics | Cambridge University Press | Economics for the IB Diploma |
IB History of the Americans | Hodder | US Civil War: Causes, Course, and Effects 1840-1877 The Mexican Revolution Civil Rights and Social Movements in the Americas post 1945 |
IB 20th Century World | Pearson | 20th Century World Authoritarian States |
IB Social Anthropology | McGraw Hill | Mirror for Humanity |
IB Philosophy | Pearson | About Philosophy |
IB Psychology | Oxford | Psychology for the IB Diploma |