Canadian Civics Complete Course - Units, Lessons, Activities, Test, Projects

So you're teaching Civics this semester! This course has everything you will need to successfully teach students about how our Canadian government works. Federalism, House of Commons, ideologies, political parties, elections, bill to law and more! Everything is literally here to take the workload off of you as the teacher. The course has been developed by an experienced educator and proven to work in the classroom!

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What's Included:

• Clear answer keys for activities packages, test, and exam!
• Three dynamic units that meet or exceed provincial standards
• Complete Exam with review activities and answer key.
• No textbook needed! Resource eBooklet included in the download!
• Over 230 pages and slides of resources
• In-depth activities packages and creative powerpoints
• Clear teacher unit guides
• 15 Generic activities (eg. article analysis template, political cartoon analysis, discussion rubric etc.). Great for supply plans!
• NEW! Current Events Portfolio Activity!
• NEW--Access to Google quizzes now provided with the course! There is an easy to use Google quiz on each of the four main activity packages. See student sample here!
• This course is a great fit for any province and has sold across the country with very positive feedback.
• For Ontario teachers, a complete course plan is provided aligning ministry expectations with course resources. The course meets "Growing Success" goals and has "Observation-Conversation" built-in. Newly updated to meet 2022 Ontario ministry expectations!

Creative Activities to Keep Kids Engaged!

• The Great Twitter Debate
• Six low organization games that are designed to keep kids active.
• Political Cartoon Creation
• Immigrant Experience Interview
• Appointing Classmates as cabinet ministers!
• Lost Island Simulation exposing the need for societal structure.
• NEW! Station Activity: Understanding the Development of Canadian Government
• NEW! Station Activity: Canadian Parliament
• NEW! Virtual Newsroom Activity
• NEW! Primary vs. Secondary Source Analysis Activity
• "Current Events Portfolio"
• "From Knowledge to Action" Culminating Project

Unit 1 Overview: Purposeful Citizenship

• In this unit, students will explore the concepts of Purposeful Citizenship. Students will learn about the formation of Canadian democracy and those that contributed to its development, prominent ideologies and systems of government. In addition, they will discuss different points of view on ideologies and structures of government.

Unit 2 Overview: Informed Citizenship

• In this unit, students will explore how Canada’s government actually functions. Students will learn how Canadian federalism is structured, how parliament functions, how elections are run and how the judicial system works. In addition, students will learn about and evaluate the beliefs of various political parties.

Unit 3 Overview: Active Citizenship

• In this unit, students will explore how to be an active citizen within their own communities and beyond. Students will learn about the importance of primary and secondary sources and how to discuss/evaluate different points of view on prominent local, provincial, national and international issues. In addition, students will complete a “Knowledge to Active” project which encourages them to be active citizens.
• "Digital Literacy" has also been added to the unit.
• In addition, students analyze articles, political cartoons, and media clips to form a "Current Events Portfolio."

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