Grade 8 - Economic Development and Quality of Life - Ontario Geography Bundle

This Lesson/Workbook bundle was created to provide everything you need to teach the Grade 8 - B. Global Inequalities: Economic Development and Quality of Life Unit in the Ontario Social Studies Curriculum - Newly Updated 2025.

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 resource covers all the expectations in the Grade 8, Ontario Social Studies Curriculum, Global Inequalities - Economic Development and Quality of Life Strand.

There are 226 activity sheets that cover the expectations in the social studies curriculum. This comprehensive unit contains readings, maps, hands-on activities, true/false, diagrams, exit cards, reflections, word searches, role plays, and more. We’ve presented the material in a variety of text forms, including reports, news articles, blog posts, and stories. There is also a unit test and answer pages for all activities!

With the update in 2025, we have added hands-on activities, exit cards, rubrics and more to this already best-selling resource.

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Quality of Life
• Women’s Quality of Life
• Infant Mortality Rate
• Introduction to Scatter Plot
• Reading scatter plots using different quality of life indicators (ex. infant mortality rate vs poverty rate)
• Creating scatter plots – GDP vs Unemployment and Literacy Rate vs Life Expectancy
• Human Development Index (HDI)
• Research – Norway & Niger Quality of Life
• Compare Population Pyramids
• Developed vs Developing Countries
• Research - Developed vs Developing Countries
• Role-Play: A Day in Two Lives
• Demography
• Population Pyramid – China
• Population Pyramids – Developed vs Developing
• Creating a Population Pyramid – U.S.A., Canada
• Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)
• Story: The Day the Water Came
• Children’s Rights Around the World
• Child Labour – Global March Organization
• Blog Post: The Red Cross Organization
• UNICEF – Changing Lives
• Interview: Water for People Organization
• Doctors Without Borders
• Assignment – NGOs Around the World
• Media – Helping People In Need
• Social Media Post – Supporting Children in Gaza
• Evaluating Media Messages
• Fact or Fiction: NGOs and Quality of Life
• Economic Sectors
• Researching Economic Sectors
• Economic Systems
• Researching Economics
• North Korea – Planned/Command Economy
• Market Economy – Capitalism
• Unequal Distribution of Wealth
• Rural Poverty in Africa
• Debate: Which Economic System Works Best?
• Canadian Imports/Exports
• Research – Canada’s Top Imports and Exports
• Research – Trade Deficits
• Newspaper Article: U.S.–Canada Trade War
• Economic Growth – China
• Research – Government Corruption
• Spelling Bee: Global Development Vocabulary
• Who Has The Word? – Global Inequalities
• Unit Test
• Answer Pages For All Activities

Google Lesson Slides

Grade 8 - B. Global Inequalities: Economic Development and Quality of Life Unit - Google Lesson Slides - Ontario Geography. This resource is packed with all the lessons you need to teach Global Inequalities: Economic Development and Quality of Life Unit, Grade 8, 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.