Big Ideas

• The pursuit of valuable natural resources has played a key role in changing the land, people, and communities of Canada.
• Demographic changes in North America created shifts in economic and political power.

Overall Expectations:

• Use Social Studies inquiry processes and skills to ask questions; gather, interpret, and analyze ideas; and communicate findings and decisions
• Construct arguments defending the significance of individuals/groups, places, events, or developments (significance)
• Ask questions, corroborate inferences, and draw conclusions about the content and origins of different sources (evidence)
• Differentiate between intended and unintended consequences of events, decisions, or developments, and speculate about alternative outcomes (cause and consequence)
• Construct narratives that capture the attitudes, values, and worldviews commonly held by people at different times or places (perspective)
• Make ethical judgments about events, decisions, or actions that consider the conditions of a particular time and place (ethical judgment)

Specific Expectations

Students are expected to know the following:

• physiographic features and natural resources of Canada

MediaSmarts Resources

• Behaving Ethically Online: Ethics and Empathy
• Break the Fake: What’s Real Online?
• Earth Day: Maps as Media
• The Hero Project: Authenticating Online Information
• Understanding the Internet Lesson 1: Using the Internet
• Understanding the Internet Lesson 2: Pathways and Addresses
• Understanding the Internet Lesson 3: Build Understanding