Ontario - Grade 8 - Social Studies - History & Geography - FULL YEAR BUNDLE

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This bundle covers all expectations in the Ontario Social Studies Grade 8 History & Geography 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.

History Resource-

Unit 1 - Creating Canada, 1850-1890

• Key Terms
• The People of BNA
• Life in BNA
• Political Deadlock – Reading
• Political Deadlock - Questions
• Representation by Population – Reading
• Representation by Population – Questions
• Fenian Raids
• Thomas D’Arcy McGee Assassinated - Reading
• Thomas D’Arcy McGee Assassinated - Questions
• Manifest Destiny
• Defense – Fenian Raids and Manifest Destiny
• Factor of Confederation – Railroad and Trade
• Confederation – Uniting the Colonies
• Double Shuffle
• The Great Coalition
• Confederation – Key Terms Matching Activity
• Profile – John A. Macdonald
• Profile – George Brown
• Road to Confederation – Charlottetown, Quebec, London Conferences
• British North America Act – Changing Map
• British North America Act – Changing Map – Canada Expansion
• Westward Expansion
• Life in the West
• North-West Mounted Police
• Indian Act – Reserves
• The Numbered Treaties
• Conflict – First Nations
• First Nations – Indian Act
• Residential Schools
• Reserves and Residential Schools
• The Metis – Culture
• The Metis Culture - Questions
• Red River Rebellion – Metis
• Gold Rush Assignment
• Creating Canada – Wordsearch and Word Scramble
• Unit Test – Creating Canada – Multiple Choice
• Unit Test – Creating Canada – Matching and Short Answer
• Unit Test – Creating Canada – Short and Long Answer

Unit 2: Canada, 1890-1914: A Changing Society

• Key Terms
• Immigration and Emigration
• Immigration – Push/Pull Factors
• Chinese Head Tax
• Chinese Railroad Workers
• Chinese Head Tax – Summary
• Immigration Act, 1910 – Reading
• Immigration Act, 1910 - Questions
• Discrimination: Komagata Maru – Reading
• Discrimination: Komagata Maru – Questions
• The Industrial Revolution – Urbanization - Reading
• The Industrial Revolution – Urbanization – Questions
• Urbanization – A Changing Society – Reading
• Urbanization – A Changing Society – Questions
• Labour History – Workers Rights – Reading
• Labour History – Workers Rights – Questions
• Discrimination: Woman’s Suffrage
• Slavery – Underground Railroad
• Harriet Tubman – Underground Railroad
• Canada – Underground Railroad Stations
• Underground Railroad Codes
• Boer War – Reading
• Boer War – Questions
• Home Children
• The Manitoba Schools Question – Reading
• The Manitoba Schools Question – Questions
• Alberta and Saskatchewan Join Confederation - Reading
• Alberta and Saskatchewan Join Confederation – Questions
• Truancy Act of 1891
• Migration – Klondike Gold Rush
• Klondike Gold Rush – Impact on First Nations
• Assignment – Significant Individuals
• Assignment – Significant Groups
• A Changing Society – Activities
• Unit Test – A Changing Society – Multiple Choice/Definitions
• Unit Test – Short and Long Answers

Geography Resource-

Strand A: Global Settlement Patterns

• Settlement patterns – linear, scattered, and clustered
• Analyzing settlement patterns using pictures
• Research assignment – settlement patterns
• Population density – in Canada and globally around the world
• Calculating population densities
• Reading and creating choropleth maps representing population density
• Population distributions in Canada and globally
• Effects of climate on settlement patterns
• Climate zones – characteristics of zones
• Landforms/Physical features – how they affect settlement patterns
• Resource towns – gold rush, mining towns, forestry communities
• Ghost towns – Dawson City – gold rush
• Land claim disputes between indigenous groups and the government (Crown)
• Coastal GasLink Pipeline – Dispute between the Wet’suwet’en people and the Crown
• Far North Act – Dispute between Indigenous groups and the Crown
• Land use terms – residential, commercial, industrial, transportation, conservation, agriculture
• Land use issues – desertification, deforestation, land degradation
• Urban vs rural living – global trend of moving to urban areas
• Urban sprawl and how it affects the environment
• Pollution caused by settlements – air, land, noise, light, and water pollution
• Waste management – incinerating waste and landfills
• The 7 r’s – reduce, reuse, recycle, refuse, repair, regift, rot
• Land reclamation projects in Kobe, Japan
• Land reclamation projects in Canada – Alberta coal mine and Syncrude Reclamation
• Sustainable development solutions – green cities
• Rainwater harvesting – profile in Brazil
• Greywater systems – Reusing water
• Unit Test
• Answer pages for all activities

Strand B – Global Inequalities

• Quality of life readings
• Researching quality of life indicators
• Infant mortality rates
• Introduction to scatter plots
• Reading scatter plots using different quality of life indicators (ex. infant mortality rate vs poverty rate)
• Creating scatter plots – GDP vs Unemployment and Literacy Rate vs Life Expectancy
• Human Development Index (HDI) rankings
• Comparing Norway (#1) vs Niger (ranked last) in quality of life indicators
• Comparing population pyramids – developed vs developing countries
• Creating population pyramids
• Developed vs developing countries
• Map activity – developed vs developing countries
• Research activity – comparing countries in terms of quality of life indicators
• Study of demography
• NGOs helping inequality issues around the world
• Child rights around the world – UNICEF and Global March Organization
• The Red Cross Organization
• Water for People Organization
• Research – Doctors Without Borders
• Evaluating the Media – How organizations use the media to spread their message
• Economic sectors – primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary
• Researching economic sectors in developed and developing countries
• Economic systems – traditional, command, market, mixed-market
• Researching economic systems in different countries and their development (HDI)
• Economic system – North Korea profile (command economy)
• Capitalism – Unequal distribution of wealth
• Wealth inequality – poverty
• Rural poverty vs urban wealth
• Trade balance – trade deficits and trade surplus of countries and comparing to their GDP per capita
• China - economy profile – from command economy towards a mixed market economy
• Corruption index rankings – levels of corruption in different governments/economies
• Unit Test
• Answer pages for all activities

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