This module cluster is designed to facilitate successful, self-paced learning by familiarizing the student with social studies and its goals. The student is asked: (a) to gain skill in dealing with the elements that have become essential in planning an instructional sequence that speaks to the criticisms of the past and recognizes the problems and concerns of children functioning in their home setting, and (b) to analyze how these elements have been interpreted in some of the newer programs. This cluster contains 12 modules dealing with: (a) social studies goals, (b) concepts, (c) the nature of a concept, (d) social science of concepts, (e) locating significant concepts, (f) levels of cognitive and affective behavior, (g) verbal behavior and levels of cognition, (h) concepts and cognitive levels of objectives, (i) concepts and affective levels of objectives, (j) social studies skills, (k) scope and sequence, and (l) application to new programs. Objectives: prerequisites; and preassessment, instructional, postassessment, and remediation activities are stated for each module. (PD)