BC - Grade 5 & 6 Social Studies - FULL YEAR BUNDLE

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FULL YEAR SPLIT GRADE BUNDLE - GRADES 5 & 6! This product contains 630 worksheets - Your entire science year planned! This bundle covers all expectations in the British Columbia Social Studies Grades 5 and 6 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 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

Grade 6 Resource - Global Issues and Governance

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• What is global settlement?
• Settlement patterns – linear, clustered, scattered
• Population density in Canada and around the world
• Urbanization – urban versus rural
• Pros and cons of living in the city
• Urban sprawl – effects on the environment and waste management
• Quality of life in different areas around the world
• Women’s quality of life
• Infant mortality rate
• Human development index – measurement of quality of life
• Developed versus developing countries
• Indian act – residential schools
• Paying for residential schools
• Residential schools – intergenerational trauma
• What is reconciliation?
• Discrimination – voting, gender, segregation
• Working class discrimination – by gender and child labour
• Segregation and the Jim Crow Laws
• Canada and the global community
• Canada’s top imports and exports
• NAFTA and USMCA – benefits and drawbacks
• Exchange rates – calculating exchanges
• Organizations for change – IGOs and NGOs
• The G20, United Nations, WTO, ICC, WHO
• Responding to global issues: climate change and the Paris Agreement
• Child labour – global response: ILO and UNICEF
• The WHO responding to the Coronavirus
• Military alliances: NATO, NORAD
• NGOs: Water for People Organization, Indigenous Resistance Against Carbon, Doctors without Borders
• Positions in the Canadian government and provincial government (BC)
• Lieutenant governor of BC
• Comparing governments: Canada versus USA (Republic)
• Structure of the government (3 branches: judicial, legislative, and executive branches)
• Impacts of mining and mining resource towns
• Clearcutting forests – effects on the environment
• Resource management policies – reforestation and other rules/policies protecting the environment
• Developing or protecting our cities/environment
• Sustainable or unsustainable actions made by governments
• Media bias – 6 forms
• Assignment – finding examples of media bias
• Propaganda – media bias during wars, confederation, and around suffrage
• Wars – World War I and World War II
• Genocide – Holocaust
• Terrorism – types and examples
• 4 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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