Outcome Chart - British Columbia - Social Studies Grade 9

Big Ideas

Emerging ideas and ideologies profoundly influence societies and events.
The physical environment influences the nature of political, social, and economic change.
Collective identity is constructed and can change over time.

Overall Expectations:

Use Social Studies inquiry processes and skills to ask questions; gather, interpret, and analyze ideas; and communicate findings and decisions
Assess the significance of people, places, events, or developments, and compare varying perspectives on their historical significance at particular times and places, and from group to group (significance)
Assess the justification for competing historical accounts after investigating points of contention, reliability of sources, and adequacy of evidence (evidence)
Explain and infer different perspectives on past or present people, places, issues, or events by considering prevailing norms, values, worldviews, and beliefs (perspective)
Recognize implicit and explicit ethical judgments in a variety of sources (ethical judgment)
Make reasoned ethical judgments about actions in the past and present, and determine appropriate ways to remember and respond (ethical judgment)

Specific Expectations

Students are expected to know the following: