Ontario - Grade 1 - Social Studies - Lessons/Workbook Mega Bundle

This mega bundle provides everything you need to teach all units in the Grade 1 Ontario 2023 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 workbooks, which contain fun activities and worksheets for your students to demonstrate their understanding.

Strand A: Our Changing Roles and Responsibilities

Workbook

Some of the concepts that are covered:​

• Indigenous Peoples​
• Indigenous Teachings: Caring For Mother Earth​
• Activity: Mother Earth Care Kit​
• Story: Earth's Helpers​
• Indigenous Peoples: Way Of Life​
• Activity: Family Connection Tree​
• Indigenous Peoples - Traditions​
• Bannock: Grandma’s Special Recipe​
• Indigenous Peoples - Language​
• Traditional Indigenous Art​
• Indigenous Music And Dance​
• Activity: Nature Sounds Storytime​
• Indigenous Peoples And Their Foods​
• Residential Schools: Interview With Elder Mary​
• Story: Tobi's Friends​
• Student Roles​
• Your Role At Home​
• Responsibilities At School And Home​
• Changing Roles And Responsibilities​
• My Changing Responsibilities​
• Relationships At School​
• Relationships At Home – My Family​
• Important Things In My Life​
• Show And Tell: My Special Object​
• Important Places In My Life​
• Activity – My Community Map​
• Ordering Events​
• Rules And Laws​
• Activity – Rules vs. Laws​
• School Rules​
• Story: Tommy’s Home Rules​
• Positive And Inclusive Behaviour​
• Bullying Survey​
• Helping Each Other​
• Role-Play: Being A Helper​
• Treating Natural And Built Environment With Respect​
• Spelling Bee: Roles, Responsibilities, Respect, & Rules​
• Unit Test ​
• Answer Pages For All Activities​

Strand B: The Local Community

Workbook

Some of the concepts that are covered:​

• Overview of the continents on Earth
• What is a natural feature?
• Natural features at school
• Natural features in the local community
• Interacting with natural features
• How to interact responsibly with natural features – Poster Assignment
• Writing activities – Favourite natural features, built features, job
• Built features at school and in the local community
• Services provided by the local community
• How we can help workers in our community – our responsibilities
• Mapping skills – scale
• Drawing pictures to scale
• Areas in your school and in your community
• Housing areas, shopping areas, and working areas (factories)
• Relative location – near, far, up, and down
• Relative distance – closer, further, closest, furthest
• Relative direction – left, right, in front, behind
• Mapping – drawing maps of your school yard, school, community
• Needs in your community – how they are met
• Life without community workers
• Jobs in our community
• Before immigration – who lived in Canada?
• Where do Indigenous groups live?
• Treaties – special agreements
• The Numbered Treaties – Which treaty land do you live on?
• Unceded land – Eastern Ontario
• History of your community
• Which Indigenous group lived in your area?
• How did this Indigenous group live – research activity
• Story – meeting Ontario’s first families
• Anishinaabe Tales – Story of Nanabozho
• Indigenous Neighbours and Friends
• The 3 Sisters Food
• Answer pages for all activities

Google Lesson Slides

Google Slides Lessons! Ontario Social Studies, Grade 1. This mega bundle also gives you access to both of the Google Slides lessons. Click on the individual units to see a full preview of the Google Slides lessons.

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 copies of the Google Slides for the three different units to your Google Drive. From there, you can complete these lessons with your class, and/or assign these slides in Google Classroom.