Ontario - Grade 5 - Social Studies - FULL YEAR BUNDLE
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FULL YEAR BUNDLE! 280+ worksheets and your entire social studies year planned! This bundle covers all expectations in the Ontario Social Studies Grade 5 Curriculum.
Students will practice literacy skills when demonstrating their understanding of the subject material. These sheets were made for cross-curricular connections between language and social studies. Students will make connections, infer, support their answers with evidence from the text, and summarize. Each worksheet contains a reading followed by questions for them to demonstrate their learning. Students will enjoy the matching, true or false, and multiple choice questions.
Strand A: First Nations and Europeans in New France and Early Canada
Some of the concepts that are covered:
- Understanding of the term Indigenous (First Nation, Métis, and Inuit)
- In depth activities for each Indigenous community (Many First Nations, Métis, and Inuit)
- Daily life and culture of the following First Nations – Algonkin, Wendat, Ojibwe, and Haudenosaunee (Mohawk, Oneidas, Onodagas, Cayugas, and Seneca)
- Haudenosaunee Confederacy – Tree of Peace, Diplomacy, Trading Alliances, Military Alliance, Canada learning Democracy from Haudenosaunee, Grand Council
- French alliances with the Wendat (Huron) and Algonquin
- Role of women in First Nations – Clan Mothers in the Haudenosaunee
- Creation Stories of Indigenous groups (Turtle Island)
- Three Sisters – Corn, Beans, and Squash
- Importance of the Buffalo
- Longhouse and Wigwam Shelters
- Inuit trading as well as trade between First Nations
- Treaties – Wampum Belts
- European Explorers – Cabot, Cartier, De Champlain
- Motivations for explorers
- Fur Trade – couriers de bois, Métis, benefits and negatives of fur trade for Europeans and Indigenous groups
- New France – Missionaries, Jesuits, Citizens in New France (Governor, Intendent), Seigneurs and Habitants
- Smallpox and Scurvy
- How the Europeans learned from the Indigenous
- Comparing childhood as an indigenous child and a New France child
- Loss of land for indigenous groups (treaties, Indian Act)
- New France effects on present-day Quebec
- Benefits and Negatives of contact between Indigenous and European groups
- 2 Unit Tests for this massive unit
- Assignments (many research assignments and a culminating assignment)
Strand B: The Role of Government and Responsible Citizenship
Some of the concepts that are covered:
- What is citizenship?
- Rights and responsibilities of Canadian citizens
- Charter of Rights and Freedoms
- Canada’s Fundamental Elements – Bilingualism, Multiculturalism, Democracy, Inclusivity
- Collective Rights (rights of different groups – Indigenous and Francophones)
- Métis National Council and Métis Nation of Ontario (Self-Government)
- What is Democracy
- Representative Democracy vs Direct Democracy (Comparison to Ancient Greece)
- Why citizens need to participate in Democracy
- How citizens can participate in government (Town Hall Meetings, Band Council Meetings)
- Levels of government (Federal, Provincial/Territorial, Municipal and Shared)
- Responsibilities of each level of government – services they offer
- Shared responsibilities between levels of governments
- Which level of government to call if you have an issue
- Election process
- Appointed and elected positions in our government
- Writing a letter to our municipal government about a social issue (bullying, homelessness, etc.)
- Major political parties in Canada and their platforms
- Taking action against the government – protest movements
- Examples of protests – Black Lives Matter, Women’s March, Climate Change, Coastal GasLink
- Indigenous self-governments (Haudenosaunee, Inuit, and Métis)
- Consulting and Accommodating Indigenous groups in Canada
- Climate change and its affect on Inuit communities
- Evaluating how Canada is doing in correcting climate change
- How governments are working today to correct climate change (Canadian government and Inuit Self-Government)
***Answer Pages for all worksheets are included