BC - Grade 3 & 4 Social Studies - FULL YEAR BUNDLE

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FULL YEAR SPLIT GRADE BUNDLE - GRADES 3 & 4! This product contains 390+ worksheets - Your entire social studies year planned! This bundle covers all expectations in the British Columbia Social Studies Grades 3 and 4 Curriculums.

Students will practice literacy skills when demonstrating their understanding of the subject material. These sheets were made for cross-curricular connections between language and social studies. Students will make connections, infer, support their answers with evidence from the text, and summarize. Each worksheet contains a reading followed by questions for them to demonstrate their learning. Students will enjoy the matching, true or false, and multiple choice questions.

Grade 3 Resource - Global Indigenous Peoples

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Who are Indigenous Groups?
• Important Indigenous symbols
• First Nations in Canada and BC
• Haida First Nation
• Haida Ceremony – Potlatch
• Activity – Creating Haida Masks
• Totem poles: Tall stories from BC
• Eagle Totem Pole in Alert Bay
• Activity – Making a totem pole
• Coast Salish governance system
• Who are the Metis?
• Inuit communities in Canada
• Surviving the cold – Inuit story
• Inuit transportation – moving around
• Labrador Inuit community
• Inuit ceremony – Tunngavik
• Inuit artifact – Inukshuk
• Activity – making a clay Inukshuk
• Natural resources in Inuit communities
• Weapons used by Canadian Indigenous groups
• Indigenous petroglyphs
• Haida creation story
• Mapping continents in the world
• American Indigenous groups – Inca, Aztec, Mayan, and Andean groups
• Inca culture and farming technologies
• Game – Inca harvest game
• The Andean people – culture and way of life
• Aztec culture and way of life
• Story – Collecting artifacts
• Mayan culture and daily life
• Mayan number system
• Inca and Aztec educational system
• Zhuang people – culture and daily life
• Hui people – culture and daily life
• Manchu people – culture and daily life
• Manchu government system
• Germanic people – culture and way of life
• Slavic Indigenous group – culture and how they respected the environment
• Celtic people – culture and daily life
• Unit Test
• Answer pages for all activities

Grade 4 Resource - First Peoples and European Contact
Some of the concepts that are covered:

• First Peoples in British Columbia
• European explorers: John Cabot, Jacques Cartier, Samuel de Champlain
• BC explorers: James Cook, Alexander Mackenzie, George Vancouver
• Hudson’s Bay Company
• Trading posts in British Columbia
• Mapping: plotting trading posts in BC
• Activity – Trading post prices: Made Beaver currency
• Fur trade alliances – French and Indigenous relationships
• Beaver Wars
• First Peoples contact with Europeans
• Europeans learning from the Indigenous – Scurvy
• Metis – Voyageurs (fur traders)
• Metis – Intermarriages between First Peoples and Europeans
• Smallpox disease affecting Indigenous populations
• Colonial wars – Seven Years’ War, Battle of the Plains of Abraham, Pontiac Wars
• First Nations loss of land – Numbered Treaties
• Indian Act
• Residential Schools
• First Nation Reserves
• Introducing horses to North America
• Potlatch Ceremony and the banning of the potlatch
• Activity – making Haida masks
• Activity – hosting a classroom potlatch
• Assignment – Creating a Journal about life as a European settler or Indigenous community member
• Population changes in British Columbia
• Fraser River Gold Rush – Boom/Bust
• Oregon Boundary Dispute
• Confederation – Joining Confederation
• Should BC join Confederation?
• Expansion of Canada – Purchase of Rupert’s Land
• Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR)
• Westward Expansion – Why move west?
• Living in a Soddie
• Activity – Making a Soddie
• History of your local community
• Physiographic regions of Canada
• Natural resources in Canada
• Jobs in Canada based on natural resources
• Climate and landforms in different physiographic regions
• 2 Unit Tests
• Answer pages for all activities

This is a comprehensive bundle that will save you hours of planning! It has been tested and found effective in helping students achieve the learning standards in the social studies curriculum.

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