Alberta Grade 1 Social Studies - Full Year Bundle

PDF AND GOOGLE SLIDE VERSIONS BOTH INCLUDED!

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.