Provides teacher candidates with an understanding of the Ontario Social Studies Curriculum Grades 1 to 6, The Kindergarten Program, and other policy documents. Teacher candidates will explore ways to help students understand and reflect upon their world, the people they encounter, and the human interactions that have occurred in the past, that are occurring in the present, and which are likely to occur in the future. Teacher candidates will delve deeply into the Six Concepts of Social Studies Thinking, which are to frame and inform all aspects of their instruction.