The Local Community - Ontario Social Studies - Grade 1 - Lesson/Workbook Bundle
This bundle was created to provide everything you need to teach the Grade 1 The Local Community unit in the 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 workbook, which contains fun activities and worksheets for your students to demonstrate their understanding.
Workbook Details:
This product was created to cover the expectations in the Ontario Social Studies Grade 1 curriculum – Strand B: The Local Community.
There are 118 activity sheets that cover the expectations in the NEW social studies 2023 curriculum. This unit contains readings, maps, cut and paste activities, assignments and a variety of fun activities – colouring sheets, fill in the blanks, multiple choice, true/false, and more!
Check out the preview of this unit to learn more about how it can benefit your students.
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! B. The Local Community Unit, Ontario Social Studies, Grade 1. This resource is packed with all the lessons you need to teach The Local Community, Grade 1, 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.