This document offers a detailed description of the Oak Park, Michigan social studies program. The program is built around four goals: knowledge, skill, value, and participation. Knowledge goals pertain to acquiring facts, concepts, or generalizations from history and the social sciences. Skill goals pertain to the ability to collect, organize, interpret, and use social science information. Value goals pertain to understanding the principles that underlie a democratic society and developing an ability to form judgments based on these principles. Participation goals pertain to life-long involvement by students in social groups and civic affairs. In the elementary schools, the program of study emphasizes the expanding horizons of young children from self-centeredness to concern for more encompassing social contexts. The program progresses from the study of self in kindergarten to a study of the United States in the fifth grade. The primary goal of the Middle School Social Studies Program is twofold: to develop civic responsibility and a global awareness. The emphasis in the middle school is on the world community. In sixth grade, students are introduced to the origins of modern civilization and a study of world culture. In seventh grade, contemporary geography and the interdependence of all people is studied. The eighth grade focuses on the history of the United States and its development as a democratic nation. (SM)