UPDATED Ontario - Grade 5 & 6 Social Studies - FULL YEAR BUNDLE

FULL YEAR SPLIT GRADE BUNDLE - GRADES 5 & 6! NEWLY UPDATED IN 2022! BOTH DIGITAL AND PDF VERSIONS NOW INCLUDED

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.

Ontario Social Studies Grade 5 Curriculum

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)

Ontario Social Studies Grade 6 Curriculum

Strand A: Communities in Canada, Past and Present

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• The Numbered Treaties – Effect on Indigenous Communities
• Treaties in Ontario – Which Treaty Agreement Covers My Community?
• Early life in my community – settlers and indigenous communities
• Indian Act – Effect on Indigenous Communities
• Residential Schools – Readings and research assignment
• National Aboriginal Veterans Monument - National Indigenous Peoples Day
• Indigenous Group of Seven – Fighting for indigenous art and culture
• Haudenosaunee Confederacy – Impact on the Canadian government structure
• Expulsion of the Acadians – conflict between British and French communities
• Immigration to Canada – Push and Pull Factors
• Immigration Act – Discrimination towards certain ethnicities
• Chinese Head Tax
• Japanese Interments
• Anti-Asian Riots in British Columbia
• Life as a French and British Settler
• Land use in New France and British North American
• The Catholic Church – Schools and religion in Early Canada
• Irish Settlers – Culture and building the canals
• Metis and Irish – Bannock and Red River Jig (Fiddling)
• Home Children
• African Canadians – Slavery and the Underground Railroad
• Doukhobours in Canada – discrimination against a religious group
• The Famous Five – Women’s suffrage (right to vote)
• Urbanization – communities in the city versus in rural areas
• Labour unions – communities improving working conditions
• Inuit community – creation of Nunavut
• Inclusion in Canada – our rights and freedoms
• Canada’s national symbols – the beaver and the maple leaf
• Research assignment – early life in your community
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

Strand B: Canada's Interactions with Global Community

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• What is the global community
• Canada’s trading partners
• Imports and exports
• Canada’s top imports and exports
• Free trade and tariffs
• NAFTA – free trade relationship with Mexico and the USA
• Mapping Canada’s trading partners
• Latitude and longitude
• The latitude and longitude of Canada’s trading partners
• Proximity of Canada’s trading partners – Great Lakes region
• Drawbacks of international trade – loss of manufacturing jobs, invasive species (zebra mussels)
• Intergovernmental organizations (IGOs)
• G20, United Nations, International Criminal Court (ICC), International Labour Organization (ILO), WHO
• The WHOs response to the COVID-19 pandemic
• Other epidemics – Zika and Ebola
• Military alliances – pros and cons
• NATO and NORAD alliances
• Peacekeeping operations in Afghanistan
• NGOs – how they operate and who they help
• Ryan’s Well, Doctors Without Borders, World Vision and more
• Earthquake in Haiti Relief – Canadian government response and Canada Red Cross
• Assignments – Researching NGOs and IGOs
• Answer pages for all activities

***Answer Pages for all worksheets are included

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