COMMUNITIES IN CANADA, 1780-1850 - Ontario Social Studies - Grade 3 NEW 2023

Grade 3 – Ontario Social Studies 2023 Updated Curriculum – Communities in Canada, 1780 - 1850. This product was created to cover the expectations in the Ontario Social Studies Grade 3 curriculum – Strand A: Heritage and Identity: Communities in Canada, 1780 - 1850.

NEW 2023 Curriculum! BOTH GOOGLE AND PDF VERSIONS ARE INCLUDED!

There are 235 activity sheets that cover the expectations in the social studies curriculum. This massive unit contains readings, maps, hands on activities, experiments, crafts, role-plays, art connections, and more. We are excited to offer a wide range of texts (blog posts, newspaper articles, stories, and reports) that cover the curriculum expectations. In addition, we have made over 20 hands-on activities to supplement the texts.

We have also made cross-curriculum connections to the grade 3 language program. Students will practice reading comprehension strategies (making connections, visualizing, inferencing, summarizing and questioning) as they work through this unit.

Check out the preview of this unit to learn more about how it can benefit your students in social studies and language!

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Indigenous groups in present-day Canada in the 1800s
• Map of the territory of Indigenous Groups in present-day Canada
• Métis Community – Daily life, hunting, gender roles, where they lived
• Diet and Nutrition Early in Canada
• Nomadic settlements – Importance of the buffalo
• Algonquin - Daily life, hunting, gender roles, where they lived
• Wigwam shelters – How to build them activity
• Mohawk - Daily life, hunting, gender roles, where they lived
• Longhouse shelters - How to build them activity
• Transportation for Indigenous groups – Dug-Out Canoe
• Activity – Making a paper canoe
• First Nation – Ojibwe – Language (Anishinaabemowin)
• Activity – Making a Dreamcatcher
• Inuit Communities in Canada – Daily Life, hunting, transportation, and culture
• Map of important settler cities in Upper and Lower Canada
• French Settlers – Challenges, Location (New France), Fur Trade, Relationships
• Irish Settlers – Challenges, Location (Kingston, Toronto, St. Lawrence), Potato Famine
• African Settler – Slavery in Upper and Lower Canada
• Black Loyalist Settlers in Nova Scotia – Discrimination in Birchwood
• Factors for choosing where to live (climate, soil, water, trading posts)
• Surviving the winter – Indigenous and Settler perspectives
• Schools now vs schools then (one-room schoolhouse)
• Treaties – The Numbered Treaties, Women in Treaty Negotiations, Role Play Activities
• Learning about promises – fundamentals of treaties
• Residential Schools – Introduction, National Truth and Reconciliation Day, Orange Shirt Day
• The Fur Trade – relationship between Indigenous groups and European settlers
• Smallpox – disease affecting Indigenous groups
• Scurvy – disease affecting European communities
• Environmental effects of settlers clearing fields
• Land ownership – First Nation views versus Settlers (Europeans)
• Environmental effects of cities – garbage and sewage
• Review activities – Pictionary, Jeopardy, Snowman (formerly Hangman), Fact or Fiction
• 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 goals in the NEW UPDATED social studies curriculum.

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