Outcome Chart - British Columbia - Social Studies Grade 3

Big Ideas

Learning about indigenous peoples nurtures multicultural awareness and respect for diversity.
People from diverse cultures and societies share some common experiences and aspects of life.
Indigenous knowledge is passed down through oral history, traditions, and collective memory.
Indigenous societies throughout the world value the well-being of the self, the land, spirits, and ancestors.

Overall Expectations:

Use Social Studies inquiry processes and skills to ask questions; gather, interpret, and analyze ideas; and communicate findings and decisions
Ask questions, make inferences, and draw conclusions about the content and features of different types of sources (evidence)
Recognize causes and consequences of events, decisions, or developments (cause and consequence)
Explain why people’s beliefs, values, worldviews, experiences, and roles give them different perspectives on people, places, issues, or events (perspective)
Make value judgments about events, decisions, or actions, and suggest lessons that can be learned (ethical judgment)

Specific Expectations

Students are expected to know the following:

aspects of life shared by and common to peoples and culture
interconnections of cultural and technological innovations of global and local indigenous peoples
relationship between humans and their environment