Social Studies
https://www.cbc.ca/kidsnews/
Map of Canada (interactive learning)
cbc kids quiz on provincial capitals
capital cities quiz: type into the box
Terry Fox
In Flanders Fields Youtube playlist
Hirsoshima & Nagasaki YouTube playlist
ELECTIONS
- FEDERAL ELECTION 2019: the 6 candidates
- FEDERAL ELECTION 2021: the 5 candidates + PPC platform
- FEDERAL ELECTION 2021: election promises of candidates (Global News)
- politics and elections: videos (scroll to bottom of the page for the videos)
- student vote resources for teachers
- What’s happening in Syria (BBC news and videos)
- What’s happening in Afghanistan (BBC news and videos)
GOING TO SCHOOL
- Going to school YouTube playlist
EARLY HUMANS (grade 7)
Textbook: Other Places, Other Times click here for the textbook
Worksheets: Other Places, Other Times click here for the worksheets
Students are expected to know the following:
anthropological origins of humans
Early Humans ~ Stone Age YouTube playlist
click here to take the Early Humans TEST. : )
website — Smithsonian Museum of human evolution research and human evolution evidence
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS (Grade 7)
Textbook: Other Places, Other Times
Students are expected to know the following:
BIG IDEA: Geographic conditions shaped the emergence of civilizations.
map in colour (Textbook page 25)
COLONIZATION
- The British Empire YouTube playlist
- 13 colonies worksheet (one page)
- YouTube [0:01:45] History Channel 13 colonies
- https://www.liveworksheets.com/lj1217447oq
- The British Commonwealth (website)
- Queen Elizabeth II YouTube 24m
MIGRATION
- Why do people migrate? Push & Pull Factors YouTube Playlist
- Students are expected to know… click here
INEQUALITY
DISCRIMINATION
- Key questions:
- How does discrimination and prejudice in modern Canadian society compare with that during other periods in Canada’s past or in other societies (e.g., systemic discrimination, overt racism)?
If the world were 100 people click here
Discrimination: 1970 Gr. 3 social experiment [blue eyes vs. brown eyes] A Class Divided: YouTube (53:00)
Choose Your Voice Fact Sheets on Inequality / www.chooseyourvoice.ca
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
Timeline_Aboriginal peoples in Canada Timeline_Aboriginals
Residential School Timeline click here
Residential School History click here for website
FIRST-HAND ARCHIVED REPORTS ON INDIAN RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS
- Reports on an Indian Residential School an example
- Reports on pupil death @ Kamloops Residential School an example (measles, meningitis, pneumonia) / (TB) / (drowning)
- Death of Pupils – archived records
- Archives / University of Manitoba / National Centre For Truth and Reconciliation
21 things you may not know about The Indian Act click here
Indigenous Peoples of Canada YouTube playlist
Should the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation Be a Day Off School? CBCNewsKids
Residential Schools Encyclopedia Canada
National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation website
94 Calls To Action: a child-friendly version link
CHINESE CANADIANS
Confederation and building the railroad: VIDEO playlist
Chinese Head Tax Encyclopedia Canada
JAPANESE CANADIANS
Japanese-American Internment During WWII (History Channel YouTube 03:38)
Japanese-Canadian Internment (narrated by David Suzuki)
Japanese Internment Memory and Exile (National Film Board video 18:51)
Japanese-American Iternment Photographs (YouTube 14:38)
Japanese Internment Camps Encyclopedia Canada
Hirsoshima & Nagasaki YouTube playlist
JEWS & THE HOLOCAUST
Auschwitz Extermination Camps Encyclopedia Canada
Auschwitz: Surviving The Holocaust YouTube (59:31)
Montreal Holocaust Museum click here
The holocaust and genocide booklist click here
GENOCIDE
The 10 Stages of Genocide website Genocide Watch
The 10 Stages of Genocide poster format
The 10 Stages of Genocide YouTube
The 10 Stages of Genocide YouTube 11:54
The 10 Stages of Genocide YouTube 21:34 by Gregory H. Stanton
List of genocide in 20thC articles
RIGHTS
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (1982) Youth Guide (40 pages)
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (1982) YouTube playlist
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (9 pages) click here
WOMEN’S RIGHTS
Facts About Girls and Education (World Vision)
Girls have a right to education ( Right to Education )
History of the Women’s Rights Movement (National Women’s History Alliance, USA)
CHILDREN’S RIGHTS
The Rights of Children (government of Canada)
PERSPECTIVE
BC curriculum grade 6 Socials
Gr. 6 Social Studies Curriculum
BC Grade 6 Social Studies Curriculum
BC Grade 6 Social Studies Curriculum
Media
BC Grade 6 Social Studies Curriculum
curriculum grade 6 Socials
Fake News Encyclopedia Canada
The Media – Lesson Plan SFU
Propaganda YouTube (3:04)
An Intro to Propaganda Techniques YouTube (5:03)
Propaganda Techniques YouTube (3:04)
9/11
Talking to Children About Terrorism click here
Lessons click here for link
What happened on 9/11? (parts 1 and 2) click here
Interactive Timeline click here
Full webinar 2020 of first person accounts (35 mins.) click here
Webinar 2021 Viewing Guide Grades 6-8 click here
Webinar 2021 view here
Witness Sofia Lachapelle (reporter) click here
Witness Wesley Wong (FBI agent) click here
Survivor Lolita Jackson click here
Grade 7 Social Studies Curriculum
The Ancient World to the 7th Century: click here for curriculum website
Textbooks
Ancient Worlds click here for link to Ancient Rome student workbooks
ANCIENT ROME
YouTube playlist for Ancient Rome click here
BLACK HISTORY
(February is Black History Month)
Book 48 pages! Black History in Canada
YouTube playlist click here (coming soon)