GUIDELINES

  • Every term you have to remember to revise contents included in the previous terms.
  • In Social Sciences we have continuous evaluation.
  • The percentages are:

- 50% End of term exam

- 30% Tasks (one written task; one project)

- 20% Readiness (effort, uniform, behaviour, punctuality, participation, etc.)

 

Social Science Guidelines

TERM 1

Unit 1: The Stone Age

Paleolithic period: nomadic, hunter-gatherers (predators), dwellings,  realistic cave art

Neolithic revolution: Farming (agriculture and livestock) and a sedentary lifestyle

Unit 2: The Metal Age

Copper, Bronze and Iron ages. Metallurgy for weapons and tools. Megaliths(dolmen, cromlech, alignment, menhir). Spain. Millares, Argar, Bell-beaker

Unit 3, first half: Mesopotamia

Different Tigris and Euphrates river civilizations (Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Neo-Babylonians).Society. Religion. Ziggurats.

TERM 2

Unit 3, second half: Ancient Egypt

Nile periodic flooding and its importance. Periods of Egyptian history.Economy. Society. Religion. Pyramids, temples, mastabas, hypogea.

Unit 4: Ancient Greece

Geography. Metal Age, Archaic Age, Classical Age, Hellenistic Age. Society. Religion. Military conflicts.

TERM 3

 

Unit 5: Ancient Rome

Natural environment. History: origins, monarchy, republic, empire, fall. Economy. Society: patricians, plebians, slaves, tenant farmers, women. Cities: important streets, forum, homes. Religion: Roman gods and deities, the spread of Christianity (Edict of Milan and Theodosius’ proclamation of Christianity as the official religion). Architecture: types of building (p.192-3).

Unit 6: Roman Hispania

Natural Environment. Pre-Roman people: The Celts, The Iberians; Colonisers; The Conquest of Hispania; The Romanisation of Hispania; Culture and Art; The Visigoths;

Unit 1:Planet Earth

Parts of the Earth. Movements (rotation and revolution).Seasons (equinoxes and solstices).Lines and geographic coordinates. Time zones. Different projections. Map scales.

Unit 2:Relief

Earth’s layers. Continents and oceans. Land and oceanic reliefs. Continental waters. Coastal Relief. Natural hazards (earthquakes and volcanos).

Unit 3: Climate and Living Things

Layers of the atmosphere. Weather vs. climate. Elements of climate (precipitation, atmospheric pressure and wind). The Earth’s climates and climate zones. The natural environment (animal adaptations, soils). Atmospheric phenomena and natural hazards.