Curriculum Guide:
Contact the LESA office for the Social Studies Curriculum Guide: 314-268-1520.
Social Studies
As a result of their education in the LESA Lutheran school social studies program, students will:
- use critical thinking skills
- understand the rights and responsibilities of active citizens
- identify democratic values and principles embodied in the constitution and fundamental charters of freedom
- use interpersonal skills such as cooperation, adaptability, and conflict resolution
- develop understanding for cultural diversity at the local, state, national and global levels
- use available resources to research and process information in a changing world
- demonstrate effective oral and written communication
- recognize spatial, historical, political, social, and economic relationships
- connect the past with the present and future
- demonstrate characteristics of life-long learners