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Social Studies
13 sections available · 50 chapters available
Free Social Studies study notes for IB Primary Years Programme (PYP) students. Each chapter breaks down a key concept with examples and practice prompts you can turn into AI drills in the thinka app.
Human systems and economic activities
Needs and wants (3-7 years)
Goods, services and work in the community (5-7 years)
Roles people fill and the jobs they do (5-9 years)
Organizations and systems people build (7-9 years)
Producing, trading and exchanging (7-12 years)
Power, authority and decision-making (9-12 years)
Connecting locally and globally (9-12 years)
Interdependence of systems (9-12 years)
Grade 1
Grade 2
Social organization and culture
Myself, my family and the groups I belong to (3-5 years)
Homes, communities and belonging (3-7 years)
Rules, routines and fairness (3-7 years)
Celebrations, traditions and beliefs (5-9 years)
Comparing customs and ways of living (7-9 years)
Different customs, similar purposes (9-12 years)
Rights and responsibilities in society (9-12 years)
How groups resolve differences (9-12 years)
Continuity and change through time
My own story: past, present and future (3-5 years)
Sequencing events in chronological order (3-7 years)
Family and local histories (5-9 years)
How the past is recorded and remembered (7-12 years)
Societies distant in time and place (7-12 years)
People whose actions changed the lives of others (9-12 years)
Technology and change over time (9-12 years)
Grade 3
Human and natural environments
My immediate and local environment (3-7 years)
What gives a place its identity (5-9 years)
Landforms, water and where people live (7-9 years)
Comparing places near and far (7-12 years)
Movement, migration and settlement (9-12 years)
Natural disasters and their impact on people (7-12 years)
How people adapt to and alter environments (9-12 years)
Grade 4
Maps and Geographic Tools
Grade 5
Resources and the environment
Where the things we use come from (3-7 years)
Natural resources and how people use them (5-9 years)
Moving resources: trade and supply (7-12 years)
Water, food and energy as shared resources (7-12 years)
Allocating and managing resources (9-12 years)
Stewardship, sustainability and future generations (9-12 years)
Science, technology and environmental impact (9-12 years)
Grade 6
Government and Democracy
Inquiry and evidence skills
Asking questions about people, places and the past
Using first- and second-hand sources
Artifacts and other simple evidence
Fact, opinion and possible bias
Comparing sources and judging reliability
Identifying roles, rights and responsibilities
Place, time and data tools
Directions, distance and orientating in place
Maps and globes: symbols, keys and locating places
Timelines and ordering events
Graphs, charts and tables
Surveys, fieldwork and direct observation
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