Grade 2 Ontario Social Studies BUNDLE 2023 Strand A & B complete units

Revised 2023! This bundle includes two complete units for the Social Studies Revised 2023 Ontario Curriculum, along with word searches for each unit. Unit plans with lessons, activities, assessments, inquiry, answer keys, and rubric are included.

*If you purchased this resource previously, you will find the revised version under the "my purchases" tab.

This product is a printable resource and digital on Google Slides.

**For distance learning, please note that some instruction may need to be modified.

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The Heritage and Community resource includes:

-Table of Contents with corresponding curriculum expectations (5 pages)

-Exploring family

-Exploring diversity - cultural backgrounds of class members

-Defining and exploring the heritage and tradition

-Family tradition interview

-Mapping personal cultural background activity

-Investigating Family Origins graphing activity (3 pages - includes interview, tally chart, and graph)

-Definition of immigrant and reasons for immigration

-Exploring through family interview about past family immigration

-Draw and write activity about family

-Chronology - various activities (see preview)

-Exploring cultural groups in the community past and present

-Passing Heritage on Through Celebrations

-Reclaiming Traditions (First Nations, Metis, Inuit specifically)

-Unit test (matching and short answer questions)

-9 pages of unit lesson plans

-2 pages of inquiry lesson plans

-Inquiry "Big Question" poster

-Inquiry choice card

-Inquiry student mini booklet

-Individual inquiry assessment activity

-Rubric (for group work and individual assessment)

52 page resource

The People and Environments resource includes:

-Table of Contents with corresponding curriculum expectations (5 pages)

-What does it mean to be global?

-Personal connection to an interesting place in the world

-World map - continents, countries, equator, Northern and Southern Hemisphere

-Continents cut and paste map

-Oceans cut and paste map

-The Great Lakes reading and activity

-The Compass Rose reading and activity

-Definition of environment and activity

-Matching terms and definitions - environment, climate, location, natural features

-Basic Human Needs and how they are met

-Exploring how basic needs are met in another part of the world and relating it to the environment

-venn diagram - compare another place in the world to home

-venn diagram - choose two places studied to compare

-task cards to explore how basic needs are met in different places and why they are met in this way

-Sustainability - What if questions activity

-anchor chart of mapping elements

-Mapping Skills activity/assessment (labeling and locating on world map) with answer key

-Unit test (circling, T/F, 3 short answer questions) with answer key

-5 pages of unit lesson plans

-2 pages of inquiry lesson plans

-Inquiry anchor chart

-Inquiry "Big Question" poster

-Inquiry choice card

-Inquiry student mini booklet

-Individual inquiry assessment activity

-Rubric (for group work and individual assessment)

40+ page resource

This resource includes two free BONUS word searches with terminology from the Social Studies Ontario Curriculum, Strand A Heritage and Identity and Strand B People and Environments. Word searches include words going only across and down.

Answer keys included.

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