BC - Grade 4 & 5 Social Studies - FULL YEAR BUNDLE

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FULL YEAR SPLIT GRADE BUNDLE - GRADES 4 & 5! This product contains 480 worksheets - Your entire social studies year planned! This bundle covers all expectations in the British Columbia Social Studies Grades 4 and 5 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 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

Grade 5 Resource - Canadian Issues and Governance

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Canada’s changing identity
• Multiculturalism in Canada
• Canada – A Peacekeeping Nation
• Immigration to Canada – Push and Pull Factors
• Clifford Sifton – Immigration to Canada
• Immigration Act – 1905
• Chinese Head Tax and the Chinese Railroad Workers – The Last Spike
• Anti-Asian Riots
• Canada – Changing Populations in Provinces and Cities
• Activity – Graphing population changes
• The Numbered Treaties
• First Nations loss of land
• Indian Act – Indian Status and the impact of the Indian Act
• Residential Schools – Impact on survivors
• Activity – Role play about Residential Schools
• Intergenerational trauma from Residential Schools
• What is reconciliation?
• Discrimination – Komagata Maru, Japanese internments and Doukhobours in Canada
• Citizenship and mock citizenship test
• Rights and responsibilities in Canada
• Charter of Rights and Freedoms
• Collective rights – Indigenous rights and Language rights
• Metis National Council
• Representative Democracy versus Direct Democracy
• Activity – acting out representative versus direct democracy
• Participation in democracy
• Levels of government
• Activity – sorting responsibilities
• Activity – plan of action: letter to the municipal government
• Provincial government – leaders and their responsibilities
• Federal government – leaders and their responsibilities
• Election process – federal and provincial
• Political parties in Canada
• Indigenous self-governments
• Governments wanting input from citizens
• Taking action – protest movements
• Land-use claims – Indigenous issues
• Coastal GasLink Pipeline
• Natural resources in Canada and BC
• Resource towns in Alberta and in BC
• Economic sectors – primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary sectors
• 3 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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