Ontario - Grade 2 - Social Studies - FULL YEAR BUNDLE
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Grade 2 – Ontario Social Studies Curriculum – Changing Family and Community Traditions. This product was created to cover the expectations in the Ontario Social Studies Grade 2 curriculum – Strand A: Changing Family and Community Traditions.
There are 98 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, and more!
Most importantly, we have made cross-curriculum connections to the grade 2 language program. Students will practice reading comprehension strategies (making connections, visualizing, and questioning) as they work through this unit.
Check out the preview of this unit to learn more about how it can benefit your students in social studies and language!
Some of the concepts that are covered:
- Family
- Extended Families
- Generations
- Family Tree – Reading different family trees
- Creating your own family tree
- Ordering births in example families
- Ordering births in your family
- Ordering life events in your family
- Immigrating to Canada
- Immigrant families in Canada
- Scottish, German, Chinese, and Indo-Canadian Families
- Religion families – Jewish families
- Places of worship in your community
- Food in Canada
- Traditional foods in different cultures
- Festivals in different cultures – Diwali, Tulip Festival, Winterlude, Celtic Colours Festival
- Festivals in your community
- Special days – Kwanzaa, Remembrance Day, Canada Day, Earth Day and more
- Ordering special days
- Heritage – artifacts, values, traditions and culture
- Your heritage story
- Identify ancestry roots on a map
- Unit test
- Research assignments
Grade 2 – Ontario Social Studies Curriculum – Global Communities. This product was created to cover the expectations in the Ontario Social Studies Grade 2 curriculum – Strand B: Global Communities.
There are 87 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, and more!
Most importantly, we have made cross-curriculum connections to the grade 2 language program. Students will practice reading comprehension strategies (making connections, visualizing, and questioning) as they work through this unit.
Check out the preview of this unit to learn more about how it can benefit your students in social studies and language!
Some of the concepts that are covered:
- Overview of the continents on Earth
- Information about each continent
- Countries in each continent
- Mapping and labelling continents on a world map
- Climates of each continent
- Physical features – rivers, mountains, forests on each continent
- Researching facts and wildlife for each continent
- Oceans – readings and questions
- Mapping and labelling oceans on a world map
- The equator as well as the northern and southern hemispheres
- The prime meridian as well as the eastern and western hemispheres
- The distance of countries from the equator and their climate
- Life in different communities around the world – Tokyo Japan, Moscow Russia, Beijing China
- Food, shelter, clothing, and landscape of each country – Japan, Russia, China
- Basic human needs – food, shelter, water, clothing and transportation
- How people in different communities meet their basic human needs
- How the communities of Ethiopia, the Arctic (Inuit), and Ecuador meet their basic needs
- Conserving food and water
- The Amazon Rainforest and wildlife there
- The Great Lakes
- Examining pictures from different communities around the world
- Cardinal directions – north, east, south, west
- Explaining directions using the cardinal directions on a world map
ANSWER PAGES FOR ALL ACTIVITIES INCLUDED!
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 goals in the social studies curriculum.