Social Studies

Grade 5/6 Social Studies Resources 2021
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What is where? Why do we care? 

Native Land













The Road Taken, Documentary about Porters and Unions: https://www.nfb.ca/film/road_taken/
Minutes 1-10, 25-31, 





Indigenous Biography Assignment:
• Mary (Molly) Brant (Konwatsi’tsiaiénni) 
• Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea) 
• Tecumseh 
• Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) 
• Nahneebahwequa (Catharine Sutton) 
• Louis Riel 
• Mistahimaskwa (Big Bear) 
• Shawnadithit 
• Pitikwahanapiwiyin (Poundmaker) 
• Qitdlarssuaq 
• Red Crow 
• Tattannoeuck (Augustus) 
• Gabriel Dumont 
• Sara Riel 
• Thunderchild 
• Charles Edenshaw (Tahayren) 


Archived Materials


Grade 6 --2019
Canada and World Trade:
https://www.jamiletheteacher.com/grade-6-canadas-interactions-with-the-global-community.html

Child Labour Issues: 
https://challengingheights.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Child-Labour-Teaching-Pack-1-1.pdf




Complicating the Issue from A+J: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awiQd8BVGTs

Video explainers about other international issues affecting children (2020):

Child Labour

Right to Education--Attawapiskat First Nations Right to Education UNICEF

Child Soldiers

Child Detention Centres in the US

Trading Partners
IMF Trading partners game
Link to Learning

International Organizations Questions

Learning about the United States, one State at a time!
  Gapminder Assignment
  Social Studies Country Project

Mini-project outline for Trading Partners brochure


Communities in Canada
Quiz: Canadian Communities Quiz

Kids Site of Canadian Settlement, link to worksheets:
https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/settlement/kids/021013-1200-e.html
Link to community information:
https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/settlement/kids/021013-1003-e.html
Questions for Specific Groups can be accessed in class. Answers should be findable on either Kid's Site of Canadian Settlement or Canadian Encyclopedia.

Native Peoples

First Nations Remembrance day Assignment: https://msgoegan.blogspot.com/2019/11/remembrance-day-assignment.html

Canadian Museum of Civilizations indigenous inventions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hpASjfY2xzpam29aYpZkULG7J139wX23/view?usp=sharing

Annotated Bibliography for Indigenous Research:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B05cSlKXf-JGUFhWbEhvTkpVZ1k/edit?usp=sharing

Ms. Goegan's Powerpoint on Native Masks:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B05cSlKXf-JGZTE3RnFmdC1TSnM/edit?usp=sharing

Peabody Museum Website:
https://www.peabody.harvard.edu/node/362

Grade 5 Social Studies: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ugaD9wjE24Q0lCfKsj1FSSeC0_VPEM6pXbpsjcssFS8/edit

Social Studies Links:
Government Grade 5's: 
Mayoral Candidates webquest
Government Structures Webquest

Aboriginal Issues Grade 6's:
Native Issues PowerPoint Project
Web Resources for the Invisible Nation --Provides a useful "webography" of links to follow up key issues, as well as a useful observation checklist for watching documentaries.

Grade 6 Trading Partners

Child Soldiers

Child Detention Centres in the US

Trading Partners
IMF Trading partners game
Link to Learning

International Organizations Questions

Learning about the United States, one State at a time!
  Gapminder Assignment
  Social Studies Country Project

Mini-project outline for Trading Partners brochure


Communities in Canada
Quiz: Canadian Communities Quiz

Kids Site of Canadian Settlement, link to worksheets:
https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/settlement/kids/021013-1200-e.html
Link to community information:
https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/settlement/kids/021013-1003-e.html
Questions for Specific Groups can be accessed in class. Answers should be findable on either Kid's Site of Canadian Settlement or Canadian Encyclopedia.

Native Peoples

First Nations Remembrance day Assignment: https://msgoegan.blogspot.com/2019/11/remembrance-day-assignment.html