BC - Grade 6 & 7 Social Studies - FULL YEAR BUNDLE

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FULL YEAR SPLIT GRADE BUNDLE - GRADES 6 & 7! This product contains 580+ worksheets - Your entire science year planned! This bundle covers all expectations in the British Columbia Social Studies Grades 6 and 7 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 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

Grade 7 Resource - The Ancient World to the 7th Century

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• First humans on Earth – migrating from Africa
• Neanderthals
• Activity – Neanderthal cave paintings
• Technological advances in tools – stone age tools
• Activity – making a stone age tool and testing it
• Hunter-gatherer society versus agricultural society
• The agricultural revolution
• Debate: which is better, a nomadic lifestyle or agricultural community
• Characteristics of a civilization
• The first civilization: Sumer
• Indus Valley civilization
• Rise and fall of civilizations
• Mesopotamia
• Ancient Egypt: living off the land (Nile River)
• Egyptian architecture
• Daily life in Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, and Ancient China
• Egyptian hieroglyphs
• Governments in ancient civilizations
• Religion in ancient civilizations – gods and worldviews
• Reading maps of the territory of ancient civilizations
• Culture of ancient civilizations
• Writing a story – daily life in Ancient Greece
• Contributions made by Ancient Egyptians, Romans, Greeks, and Chinese
• Government in Athens – Birth of Democracy
• Direct democracy in Athens
• Activity – direct democracy and representative democracy
• Primary sources – reading pictures and interpreting quotes from ancient civilizations
• Roman expansion and war
• Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great
• Bartering system and the evolution of economies in ancient civilizations
• Activity – playing a bartering game
• South American indigenous groups – Inca, Mayan, and Aztec civilizations
• Mayan number system – petroglyphs
• Scientific contributions and inventions by South American civilizations
• Ancient China – advanced civilizations
• Trade – the Silk Road
• Unit Test
• Answer pages for all activities

This is a comprehensive unit 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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