Student books feature special pages that introduce topics with guiding questions based on the curriculum content fields. Each chapter begins with competence-oriented introductions and includes a double page for reactivating basic knowledge from secondary education level I. Integrated method pages provide exercise examples and solutions for self-learning control, along with additional tasks for internal differentiation. Summary pages include competence checks and application tasks. The history-controversial section highlights multi-perspective and controversial materials. Topics covered in the qualification phase include:

• The modern industrial society between progress and crisis
• The period of National Socialism: prerequisites, structures of rule, aftermath, and interpretation
• Nationalism, the nation-state, and German identity in the 19th and 20th centuries
• Peace orders in the modern age

Deepening pages offer additional material for further exploration.