Alberta Grade 1 Social Studies - Full Year Bundle
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Alberta Social Studies Curriculum - Grade 1. This product was created to cover all of the expectations in the Alberta Social Studies Grade 1 curriculum.
There are 265+ activity sheets that cover the learning standards in the social studies curriculum. This unit contains readings, cut and paste activities, assignments and a variety of fun activities – colouring sheets, fill in the blanks, multiple choice, true/false, and more!
Check out the previews of these units to learn more about how it can benefit your students. We know you will love this no-prep, just print or upload to Google, time-saving resource!
1.1 My World: Home, School, and Community
Some of the concepts that are covered:
- What is a community?
- Which communities do you belong to?
- Your local community
- Natural features in your community and at your school
- The environment – the natural features around you
- Natural resources in your community
- Taking care of the environment and your community
- Respecting the natural environment
- Poster Assignment – Keeping the environment clean
- Built features at school and in the community
- Matching activities – built features
- Built features – matching the purpose with the building
- Sorting natural and built features
- Areas in your community – residential, commercial, industrial
- Mapping skills – scale, relative directions
- Making a map of your school, school yard, park
- Urban and rural communities
- Services in your community
- Community needs – hospitals, waste removal, fire department, policing
- Jobs in your community
- Your favourite job
- Differences in your community – languages, food, traditions, clothing
- Foods from different countries
- Speaking different languages
- Roles at home and in school
- Responsibilities at home and at school
- School community – who is in charge (principal)
- Class rules and school rules
- How our behaviour affects others
- How we can help others
- Our changing roles and responsibilities
- Leaders in our communities - principal and mayor
- Activity – Electing a mayor
- Activity – Becoming mayor
- Making decisions for everyone, not ourselves
- Equality versus equity – our needs versus the needs of others
- Activity – modelling equality and equity
- Activities – Word scramble and word search
- Unit Test
- Answer pages for all activities
1.2 Moving Forward With the Past: My Family, My History, and My Community
Some of the concepts that are covered:
- Different types of families
- Extended family
- My family
- Generations
- Differences between generations – technologies
- Practicing reading a family tree
- Writing a family tree
- Learning about aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents
- Ordering the births in a family
- Ordering events in a story
- Our own significant life events – weddings, births, moving to a new community, etc.
- Key events in my community
- Celebrations in my community
- History of my community
- First People in your community
- Canada – Indigenous groups
- Immigration to Canada
- Immigrant families
- Chinese families in Canada and Alberta
- German families in Canada and Alberta
- Scottish families in Canada and Alberta
- Learning from other cultures – Bannock
- Francophones in Alberta
- Francophone culture
- Story – Pierre the Francophone from Quebec moves to Alberta
- History of Lacombe – Father Albert Lacombe
- The Railway – the Canadian Pacific Railway and its importance for growing communities in Alberta
- Popular sayings in different languages/cultures
- Women’s rights – Famous Five from Alberta
- History of Calgary – John Glenn
- Foods from other countries and cultures
- Food in your life
- Monuments in your community
- Activities – Word scramble and word search
- Unit Test
- Answer pages for all activities
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 outcomes in the social studies curriculum.