BC - Grade 7 & 8 Social Studies - FULL YEAR BUNDLE

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FULL YEAR SPLIT GRADE BUNDLE - GRADES 7 & 8! This product contains 455+ worksheets - Your entire science year planned! NO PREP - JUST PRINT! This bundle covers all expectations in the British Columbia Social Studies Grades 7 and 8 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 7 Resource

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

Grade 8 Resource

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• The Middle Ages
• Fall of Rome – Rise of Feudalism
• Activity – Feudalism Role Play
• The Manorial System
• Activity – Building a Manorial System Model
• Story – Day in the Life of a Serf
• Feudalism in Japan versus Europe
• Religion in Feudalist societies – hierarchy in the church
• Inventions in the middle ages
• The English Peasants’ Revolt of 1381
• The Black Death – Decline of Feudalism
• Timeline of the Byzantine Empire
• Jobs and gender roles in the Byzantine Empire
• The rise of the Ottoman Empire and The fall of Constantinople
• The Islamic Golden Age – Ottoman Empire
• The Renaissance Period – personalities: da Vinci, Michelangelo, Galileo
• The Enlightenment – a time of great ideas
• The Printing Press
• Religion around the world – spread of Islam
• The Crusades
• Reformation – Martin Luther and the 95 Thesis
• Counter-Reformation: Roman Inquisition, Index of Forbidden Books, Jesuits
• Expulsion of Jewish People from Spain
• China – Advanced Civilization
• Timeline of navigational tools
• Zheng He and cartography
• Activity – using online mapping programs
• Trade – the Silk Road
• Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
• Story – Life as a slave on a slave ship crossing the middle passage
• Imperialism – effects on other countries and Spanish imperialism
• Spanish explorer – Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Exchange
• Activity – Making a Columbian Exchange timeline
• European colonialism – Examples: Spanish colonies, English colonies, and French colonies
• European explorers – Cabot, Champlain, Cartier
• Fur trade – moving to North America
• French alliances with Indigenous groups
• The Beaver Wars
• Seigneurs and Habitants
• Catholic Church in New France and Citizens of New France
• Smallpox and other diseases affecting Indigenous groups
• Expulsion of the Acadians
• Population changes from the 7th century to 1750
• Urbanization in the Middle Ages and the effects on the environment
• Unit Test
• 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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