Grade 8 - Global Settlement Patterns & Sustainability - Ontario Geography Bundle

This Lesson/Workbook bundle was created to provide everything you need to teach the Grade 8 - A. Global Settlement: Patterns and Sustainability 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 Settlement: Patterns and Sustainability Strand.

There are 217 activity sheets that cover the expectations in the social studies/geography 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:

• Global Settlement
• Settlement Patterns
• Story: Life Along the Nile
• Word Search – Geographic Terms
• Population Density
• Choropleth Map – World Population Densities
• Population Distribution
• World Population Distribution – By Countries
• Population Distribution in Provinces
• Effect of Climate on Settlement Patterns
• Climate Zones – Where Do Most People Live?
• Research Activity – Climate Zones
• Physical Features – Effect on Settlement
• Hurricane Katrina – Living Below Sea Level
• Newspaper Article: Fort McMurray Wildfire
• Four Corners: Environment and Settlement
• Ghost Towns
• Resource Town - Dawson City
• Fact or Fiction: World Settlements Edition
• Land Claims - Indigenous Groups & the Crown
• Land Use Issues – Indigenous Communities & Coastal GasLink Pipeline
• Land Claims – Far North Act
• Land Use in Your City/Town
• Land Use Issues – Canada’s Parks
• Desertification
• Activity – Deforestation Infographic
• Where to Live – Urban vs Rural
• Urbanization and Urban Sprawl
• Research – Land Reclamation in Kobe, Japan, Land Reclamation in the Flevoland Polders
• Air Pollution Infographic
• Assignment – Pollution Infographic
• Interview: Waste Management Issues
• Research – Local Waste Disposal
• Beyond the Three Rs – Repair, Regift, Rot, Refuse
• How Long Does Garbage Take to Decompose?
• Rainwater Harvesting
• Blog Post: Greywater – Reusing Water
• Memory Game – Human Settlement
• Role-Play: Human Settlement and the Environment
• Unit Test
• Answer Pages For All Activities

Google Lesson Slides

Grade 8 - A. Global Settlement: Patterns and Sustainability Unit - Google Lesson Slides - Ontario Geography. This resource is packed with all the lessons you need to teach Global Settlement: Patterns and Sustainability 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.