Social+8

**Social Studies 8** 8.1 From Isolation to Adaption 8.2 Origins of the Western Worldview: Renaissance Europe 8.3 Worldviews in Conflict: The Spanish and the Aztecs Grade 8 students will learn how intercultural contact between societies leads to significant change and alters each society’s worldview. Grade 8 students will examine issues related to contact between societies with differing worldviews.

They will explore elements of worldviews and how these views are expressed by people living in different times and in different places. Through this inquiry, students will reflect on their own worldviews and assess the influence that the past has had on the present. Examples will be drawn from Japan, Renaissance Europe and Spanish and Aztec societies.

In a Catholic school, students are invited to consider how issues of social justice, the contribution of the Church to community (locally and globally), and Church teaching can be integrated appropriately into the social studies curriculum.