History is not present in the elementary curriculum and personally it should be, but it should not be the center of the social studies curriculum. History along with all the other sections of social studies are important part of the curriculum, the main purpose of social studies is to provide students with enough knowledge to make good decisions. According to Mead, he views history, anthropology and other categories important to the curriculum. In a way all the subjects found in the social studies parameter are in one way or another connected to each other, humanities and history are almost the same except that humanities focuses on arts and the culture while history focuses on the development of a civilization.
The problem is not whether the elementary students will be able to understand or have conceptual abstract but if the teacher uses effective strategies to teach the subject that the students in will be able to learn history. The learning depends on the skills of the teacher, personally even if the students in elementary do not have history as a subject history should still be taught because it is everywhere. One finds history in geography, humanities, etc. it is all about how well the teacher can integrate history to her unit. But like I mentioned earlier I do not think that it should be at the center of the curriculum, the teachers should find a way to incorporate it to the lesson so that the students are able to make a connections.
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