This textbook provides a variety of opportunities to students for individual study and group work through a combination of informative narrative and numerous creative and skill-building activities.

Key features:


Covers all themes, topics, content and Specific Learning Outcomes of the Social Studies curriculum (2008) for Trinidad and Tobago

Provides Key Questions at the beginning of each chapter to trigger students' interest and thinking

Features activities and exercises, such as Checkpoints to ensure comprehension of content, Thinking Creatively and Critically to encourage analysis, application, synthesis and evaluation, and Wrap Up to summarise learning.

Highlights key terms and concepts throughout and explains these in the text and glossary

Includes visuals such as photographs, maps, charts, and timelines

Provides a Skills Tool Kit for the development of specific skills including social and interpersonal skills, communication skills, enquiry and research skills, information-processing skills, and creating and working with visual aids