Changing Family & Community Traditions - Ontario Social Studies Grade 2 - Lesson/Workbook Bundle
This bundle was created to provide everything you need to teach the Grade 2 Strand A - Heritage and Identity: Changing Family and Community Traditions unit in the Newly Updated Ontario 2025 Social Studies Curriculum. With your purchase, you will receive lesson slides that follow the 3-Part lesson format, engaging your students from start to finish. You will also receive the workbook, which contains fun activities and worksheets for your students to demonstrate their understanding.
Workbook Details:
This product was created to cover the expectations in the Ontario Social Studies Grade 2 curriculum – Strand A: Changing Family and Community Traditions unit.
There are 249 activity sheets that cover the expectations in the social studies curriculum. This massive unit contains readings, maps, and a variety of fun activities - word searches, word scrambles, drawings, multiple choice, true/false, exit cards and more!
Some of the concepts that are covered:
- Family, Extended Families, and Generations
- Family Tree – Reading different family trees
- Creating your own family tree
- Snowman – Family Terms
- Ordering births in families
- Ordering life events in your family
- Canada – Before Immigration
- Immigrating to Canada
- Scottish, German, Chinese, and Indo-Canadian Families in Canada
- Immigration – Countries Around The World
- Fact Or Fiction – Immigrant Heritage In Canada
- Food in Canada
- Grocery Stores – Food Around The World
- Festivals In Canada - Fall Festivals, Canadian Tulip Festival
- Festivals in my community
- Religious families
- Assignment – Religious Buildings Near Me
- Ordering Religious Holidays
- Religious Holidays – Diwali, Ramadan & Eid Al-Fitr, Hanukkah, Christmas
- Christmas Song: Jingle Bells
- Activity: Christmas Tree Craft
- Special days – Kwanzaa, Remembrance Day, Canada Day, Earth Day and more
- Poppy Craft: Honouring Remembrance Day
- Memory Game – Celebrations In Canada
- Role-Play: Families And Their Celebrations
- Heritage Story - Netherlands
- My Heritage - Recipes
- Heritage – Holiday Celebrations, Language
- Activity – Heritage Storybooks
- My Family Heritage
- Activity: Cultural Show And Tell
- Bringing Back Indigenous Traditions
- Story: Traditional Foods Of The Land
- Case Study: Indigenous Fire-Keeping Knowledge
- Art Shows Us Culture
- Newspaper Article: The Annual Powwow Celebration
- Lessons from Indigenous Stories
- Indigenous Commemorative Days
- Powley Day: A Métis Celebration
- Trivia: Reclaiming Indigenous Culture
- Unit tests
- Answer pages for all activities
Google Lesson Slides
Google Slides Lessons! Strand A - Heritage and Identity: Changing Family and Community Traditions Unit, Ontario Social Studies, Grade 2. This resource is packed with all the lessons you need to teach Changing Family and Community Traditions, Grade 2, Ontario Social Studies Curriculum.
We have structured these lessons to follow the popular 3-Part Lesson format. By using these lessons, you will be provided with learning goals, discussion questions, relevant YouTube videos, interactive slides, exit cards, and more. Check out the variety of activities you'll receive below.
Part 1: Minds On!
- Learning Goals
- Discussion Questions
- Polls/Surveys
- Picture Prompts
- Jokes and Riddles
- Relevant Quotes
Part 2: Action!
- Interactive Activities
- Drag and Drop
- Fill in the Blanks
- Matching
- Sorting
- Polls/Surveys and Graphing
- Embedded YouTube Videos
Part 3: Consolidation
- Exit Cards
- 3-2-1 Reflections
- One Word Reflections
- Act It Out!
- Quick Draw
- One Sentence Summary
After purchasing this resource, you will be able to download a copy of this file to your Google Drive. From there, you can complete these lessons with your class, and/or assign these slides in Google Classroom.