4 Days of Social Science: History, Geography, Civics & Citizenship, Economics

Learners will study HASS (Humanities & Social Sciences): Civics & Citizenship, History, Geography, and Economics & Business at Year / Grade 2, Year / Grade 3, and/or Year / Grade 4 levels. 

I am a lawyer in Australia, and I have homeschooled my own children for the past 8 years and will continue to do so for at least another 17 years (my youngest child is 1y as of 2022). 

I have degrees, post-graduate, and professional qualifications in the following:

- Law - Bachelor of Laws, Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice, Admission as a Lawyer;

- TESOL - I have completed 8 out of 8 units towards the 150-hour qualification. When I receive my official professional certificate from Arizona State University I will update this here as it is expected to take up to 8 weeks to arrive;

- Criminology;
- I.T. Security;
- Applied Linguistics;
- Investigative Services;

- Bachelor of Arts in Security, Terrorism and Counterterrorism from Murdoch University which covered the following topics:
Ethnic Conflict and Multiculturalism
Ethnic Questions in East and South-East Asia
Chinese Political Economy and Business
Islam: Past and Present
Power and Legitimacy in Modern Political Thought
Practical Ethics
Politics in Contemporary China
Terrorism in a Globalised World
War and Peace in World History
Body and Mind
Crime, Business and Politics in Asia
News and Politics
Australian Foreign Policy
Authoritarianism and Democracy
Terrorism: Its Causes and Consequences
International Security Studies
Knowledge and Information Security
Spies, Saboteurs and Secret Agents
Structure Thought and Reality
Introduction to University Learning
Globalisation: The Asia Pacific
Perspectives on Security and Terrorism
Introduction to Global Politics

I have also completed the following short courses which are relevant to the classes I teach here:

- How Forensic Science should speak to the Court;
- Introduction to Key Constitutional Concepts and Supreme Court Cases (USA);
- An Introduction to American Law (USA);
- English Common Law: Structure and Principles (UK);
- Economic Growth and Distributive Justice;
- Water Supply and Sanitation Policy in Developing Countries;
- Reason and Persuasion: Thinking Through Three Dialogues By Plato;
- Technology and Ethics;
- ADHD: Everyday Strategies for Elementary Students;
- The Clinical Psychology of Children and Young People;
- Everyday Parenting: The ABCs of Child Rearing;
- A Brief History of Humankind.

I have also travelled to a dozen different countries all over the world, including some of the countries that we will discuss in class.

Learners will need to finish the work that they were working on in class that day in their own time if they did not finish it during class time. They can either upload a screenshot or a document to the classroom, or show their work in person at the start of the next class. Each class recording will be made available so that learners who need to can review the lesson from each day before moving on to the next day.

Appropriate formal grade-level assessments will be conducted at the request of the learner or their parents/guardians.

2 hours per week in class, and an estimated 0 - 1 hours per week outside of class.

- https://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/
- https://www.qcaa.qld.edu.au/
- https://www.britannica.com
- https://www.worldatlas.com
- https://www.lonelyplanet.com
- https://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld
- https://www.dfat.gov.au/geo
- https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/geography/countries
- https://www.aljazeera.com/where
- https://www.africa.com/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-
- https://www.state.gov/countries-areas
- https://www.defactoborders.org/places