Systems Unit - Grade 4 - Alberta 2025 Social Studies - Lesson/Workbook Bundle

This bundle was created to provide everything you need to teach the Grade 4 Systems unit in the FINALIZED Alberta 2025 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 workbook, which contains fun activities and worksheets for your students to demonstrate their understanding.

Workbook Details:
This resource covers all skills and outcomes in the Grade 4, 2025 Alberta social studies curriculum – Systems unit.

There are 131 activity sheets that cover the outcomes in the social studies curriculum. This comprehensive unit contains readings, hands-on activities, true/false, diagrams, exit cards, reflections, word searches 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!

Check out the preview of this unit to learn more about how it can benefit your students.

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Confederation and Nation Building
• Interview: Reasons For Confederation
• Francophones and Anglophones: Views on Confederation
• Debate: George Brown vs. George-Étienne Cartier
• Activity: Confederation Debate
• Introduction to Canadian Government
• Activity: Canadian Government Timeline
• British North America Act of 1867
• Interview with an Alberta MP: What Did the BNA Act Do?
• Case Study: Mary Simon and Her Roles
• Leading Canada: A Letter from Mark Carney
• Role-Play: Prime Minister and Governor General
• Memory Game: Canadian Government
• The Fur Trade
• The Hudson’s Bay Company
• Voyageurs - Northwest Trading Company
• Newspaper Article: Expanding the Fur Trade
• Story: A Day at the Trading Post
• Activity: Trading Post Creation
• Fact Sheet: Roles in the Fur Trade
• Role-Play: The Fur Trade
• Case Study: Thanadelthur's Role in the Fur Trade
• Cultural Exchange and Knowledge Sharing
• Story: Little Eagle and the Strange Sickness
• Interview: Reliance on European Goods
• Word Search – Trading Goods
• Blog Post: Fur Trade and Changes in Ways of Living
• Fact or Fiction – Exploring the Fur Trade
• Economic Growth from the Fur Trade
• Spelling Bee: The Fur Trade
• Unit Test
• Answer Pages For All Activities

Google Lesson Slides

Finalized NEW 2025 Alberta Curriculum - Systems Unit - Grade 4 - Google Lesson Slides! This resource is packed with all the lessons you need to teach the Systems, Grade 4, Alberta 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.