UPDATED Ontario - Grade 2 & 3 Social Studies - FULL YEAR BUNDLE

FULL YEAR SPLIT GRADE BUNDLE - GRADES 2 & 3! NEWLY UPDATED IN 2022! BOTH GOOGLE AND PDF VERSIONS ARE INCLUDED!

This includes activities that cover all of the expectations in the Grades 2 and 3 Social Studies curriculums.

Most importantly, we have made cross-curriculum connections to the grades 3 and 3 language programs. Students will practice reading comprehension strategies (making connections, visualizing, inferencing, summarizing and questioning) as they work through this unit.

Check out the previews of these units to learn more about how they can benefit your students in social studies and language!

Grade 2 -

Strand A: Changing Family and Community Traditions
Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Family
• Extended Families
• Generations
• Family Tree – Reading different family trees
• Creating your own family tree
• Ordering births in example families
• Ordering births in your family
• Ordering life events in your family
• Immigrating to Canada
• Immigrant families in Canada
• Scottish, German, Chinese, and Indo-Canadian Families
• Religion families – Jewish families
• Places of worship in your community
• Food in Canada
• Traditional foods in different cultures
• Festivals in different cultures – Diwali, Tulip Festival, Winterlude, Celtic Colours Festival
• Festivals in your community
• Special days – Kwanzaa, Remembrance Day, Canada Day, Earth Day and more
• Ordering special days
• Heritage – artifacts, values, traditions and culture
• Your heritage story
• Identify ancestry roots on a map
• Unit test
• Research assignments

Strand B: Global Communities

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Overview of the continents on Earth
• Information about each continent
• Countries in each continent
• Mapping and labelling continents on a world map
• Climates of each continent
• Physical features – rivers, mountains, forests on each continent
• Researching facts and wildlife for each continent
• Oceans – readings and questions
• Mapping and labelling oceans on a world map
• The equator as well as the northern and southern hemispheres
• The prime meridian as well as the eastern and western hemispheres
• The distance of countries from the equator and their climate
• Life in different communities around the world – Tokyo Japan, Moscow Russia, Beijing China
• Food, shelter, clothing, and landscape of each country – Japan, Russia, China
• Basic human needs – food, shelter, water, clothing and transportation
• How people in different communities meet their basic human needs
• How the communities of Ethiopia, the Arctic (Inuit), and Ecuador meet their basic needs
• Conserving food and water
• The Amazon Rainforest and wildlife there
• The Great Lakes
• Examining pictures from different communities around the world
• Cardinal directions – north, east, south, west
• Explaining directions using the cardinal directions on a world map

Grade 3 –

Strand A: Heritage and Identity: Communities in Canada, 1780 - 1850.

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
• 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
• First Nation – Ojibwe – Language (Anishinaabemowin)
• 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)
• 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
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

People and Environment: Living and Working in Ontario

Topics included:

• Key Terms
• Municipalities in Ontario – Reading and Map
• Local Government on Reserves
• Reading Maps
• What are Landforms?
• Natural Resources – Reading and Questions
• The Canadian Shield – Reading and Questions
• The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Lowlands – Reading and Questions
• Great Lakes – Mapping Activity and Questions
• Wetlands
• Hudson Bay Lowlands – Reading and Questions
• Map of Ontario – Labelling Regions and Cities in Ontario
• Cities in Ontario’s Different Regions
• Comparing Ontario’s Regions – Activities
• Comparing Ontario’s Regions - Writing
• The Economy – Goods and Services – Reading and Questions
• Jobs in Different Communities - Reading and Questions
• Manufacturing Jobs – Reading and Questions
• Researching Factories in Ontario
• Comparing Jobs in Ottawa vs Merrickville
• Jobs in Toronto
• Jobs in Dryden
• Comparing Jobs – Research Activity
• Different Land Uses – Reading and Questions
• Challenges of City Planning – Reading and Questions
• More Challenges of City Planning
• City Planning – Analyzing Land use of Cities using Aerial Views
• Land Use of Toronto – Reading and Questions
• City Planning Activity – Drawing a Map
• Comparing Cities – Use of Land
• Living and Working in Ontario – Activities (Wordsearch and Word Scramble)
• Unit Test
• Answer pages

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 goals in the social studies curriculum.

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