Skip to main content
California Department of Education Logo

History-Social Science

Information that defines the knowledge, concepts, and skills students should acquire at each grade level.
Content Standards
All of the state content standards, including history-social science. Content standards were designed to encourage the highest achievement of every student, by defining the knowledge, concepts, and skills that students should acquire at each grade level.
Curriculum Frameworks
Guidelines for implementing the content standards adopted by the California State Board of Education that are developed by the Instructional Quality Commission.
Education & the Environment Initiative Curriculum
Development and review of an environment-based curriculum for kindergarten through grade 12 in the subject-matter areas of history-social science and science.
External Resources
Outside Web sites providing information regarding History-Social Science.
Instructional Materials
Information and resources for instructional materials.
Professional Learning
Resources and information for enhancing the content knowledge and teaching skills of classroom teachers and links to foundational documents which guide California's History‒Social Science instruction.
Recommended Literature for Pre-K Through Grade 12
Collection of outstanding History-Social Science (HSS) and Visual and Performing Arts (VAPA) literature for children and adolescents in grades kindergarten through grade twelve.
Recently Posted in History-Social Science
  • Publisher Submission (XLS) (added 12-Jan-2017)
    Publisher Contact Information and Instructional Materials Submission List for the 2017 History-Social Science Adoption.
  • Evaluation Criteria Map Instructions (DOC) (added 12-Jan-2017)
    Instructions for Completing the California Evaluation Criteria Map for the 2017 History-Social Science Instructional Materials Adoption.
  • HSS Standards Map, Grade 5 (DOC) (added 12-Jan-2017)
    Standards Map ? 2017 History?Social Science Adoption Grade Five Standards Map: United States History and Geography: Making a New Nation.
  • HSS Standards Map, Grade 4 (DOC) (added 12-Jan-2017)
    2017 History?Social Science Adoption Grade Four Standards Map: California: A Changing State
  • HSS Standards Maps, Grade 3 (DOC) (added 12-Jan-2017)
    2017 History?Social Science Adoption Grade Three Standards Maps: Continuity and Change

  • HSS Standards Map, Grade 2 (DOC) (added 12-Jan-2017)
    2017 History?Social Science Adoption Grade Two Standards Maps: People Who Make a Difference
  • Standards Map, Grade 1 (DOC) (added 12-Jan-2017)
    2017 History?Social Science Adoption Grade One Standards Map: A Child?s Place in Time and Space
  • HSS Standards Map, Grade 6 (DOC) (added 12-Jan-2017)
    2017 History?Social Science Adoption Grade Six Standards Map: World History and Geography: Ancient Civilizations.
  • HSS Standards Map, Grade 7 (DOC) (added 12-Jan-2017)
    2017 History?Social Science Adoption Grade Seven Standards Map: World History and Geography: Medieval and Early Modern Times.
  • HSS Standards Map, Grade 8 (DOC) (added 12-Jan-2017)
    2017 History?Social Science Adoption Grade Eight Standards Map: United States History and Geography: Growth and Conflict.