BC Social Studies Grade 4 Full Year Bundle

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Grade 4 – British Columbia (BC) Social Studies Curriculum – First Peoples and European Contact. This product was created to cover the elaborations and big ideas in the British Columbia (BC) Social Studies Grade 4 Curriculum – First Peoples and European Contact.

There are 224 activity sheets that cover the learning standards in the social studies curriculum. This unit contains readings, assignments, hands-on activities, fill in the blanks, multiple choice, true/false, and more!

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Some of the concepts that are covered:

• First Peoples in British Columbia
• European explorers: John Cabot, Jacques Cartier, Samuel de Champlain
• BC explorers: James Cook, Alexander Mackenzie, George Vancouver
• Hudson’s Bay Company
• Trading posts in British Columbia
• Mapping: plotting trading posts in BC
• Activity – Trading post prices: Made Beaver currency
• Fur trade alliances – French and Indigenous relationships
• Beaver Wars
• First Peoples contact with Europeans
• Europeans learning from the Indigenous – Scurvy
• Metis – Voyageurs (fur traders)
• Metis – Intermarriages between First Peoples and Europeans
• Smallpox disease affecting Indigenous populations
• Colonial wars – Seven Years’ War, Battle of the Plains of Abraham, Pontiac Wars
• First Nations loss of land – Numbered Treaties
• Indian Act
• Residential Schools
• First Nation Reserves
• Introducing horses to North America
• Potlatch Ceremony and the banning of the potlatch
• Activity – making Haida masks
• Activity – hosting a classroom potlatch
• Assignment – Creating a Journal about life as a European settler or Indigenous community member
• Population changes in British Columbia
• Fraser River Gold Rush – Boom/Bust
• Oregon Boundary Dispute
• Confederation – Joining Confederation
• Should BC join Confederation?
• Expansion of Canada – Purchase of Rupert’s Land
• Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR)
• Westward Expansion – Why move west?
• Living in a Soddie
• Activity – Making a Soddie
• History of your local community
• Physiographic regions of Canada
• Natural resources in Canada
• Jobs in Canada based on natural resources
• Climate and landforms in different physiographic regions
• 2 Unit Tests
• Answer pages for all activities

This is a comprehensive unit that will save you hours of planning! It has been tested and found effective in helping students achieve the learning standards in the social studies curriculum.