Social Studies

https://www.cbc.ca/kidsnews/

 


Map of Canada (interactive learning)

geoguessr

lizardpoint

cbc kids quiz on provincial capitals

capital cities quiz: type into the box

purposegames

 


Terry Fox


In Flanders Fields   Youtube playlist

 


Hirsoshima & Nagasaki   YouTube playlist

 


ELECTIONS



GOING TO SCHOOL


EARLY HUMANS (grade 7)

Textbook:  Other Places, Other Times   click here for the textbook

Worksheets:  Other Places, Other Times   click here for the worksheets

BIG IDEA:  Geographic conditions shaped the emergence of civilizations.
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

BIG IDEA:  Geographic conditions shaped the emergence of civilizations.

map in colour (Textbook page 25)

 

 


COLONIZATION

MIGRATION

 

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

Reports on an Indian Residential School  an example

Reports on pupil death @ Kamloops Residential School   an example (measles, meningitis, pneumonia)an example (TB)  /  an example (drowning)

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

Genocide definition

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 United Nations

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

Gr 6 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

https://www.911memorial.org/

Talking to Children About Terrorism  click here 

What is 9/11? CBC Kids News

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

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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)