Core Competency Connections Personal Awareness & Responsibility
I recognize my value and advocate for my rights. I take responsibility for my choices, my actions, and my achievements.
Critical Thinking & Reflective Thinking
I can ask questions and consider options. I can use my observations, experience, and imagination to draw conclusions and make judgments.
Social Studies 4 Curricular Competencies:
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)
Social Studies 5 Big Idea:
Canadian institutions and government reflect the challenge of our regional diversity.
Curricular Competencies:
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, and developments (significance)
Ask questions, corroborate inferences, and draw conclusions about the content and origins of a variety of sources, including mass media (evidence)
Take stakeholders’ perspectives on issues, developments, or events by making inferences about their beliefs, values, and motivations (perspective)
Content:
levels of government (First Peoples, federal, provincial, and municipal), their main functions, and sources of funding
participation and representation in Canada’s system of government
Social Studies 6 Big Idea:
Systems of government vary in their respect for human rights and freedoms.
Curricular Competencies:
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, and developments (significance)
Ask questions, corroborate inferences, and draw conclusions about the content and origins of a variety of sources, including mass media (evidence)
Take stakeholders’ perspectives on issues, developments, or events by making inferences about their beliefs, values, and motivations (perspective)
Content:
Different systems of government
Media technologies and coverage of current events
Social Studies 7: Curricular Competencies:
Use Social Studies inquiry processes and skills to — ask questions; gather, interpret, and analyze ideas; and communicate findings and decisions
Assess the credibility of multiple sources and the adequacy of evidence used to justify conclusions (evidence)
Explain different perspectives on past or present people, places, issues, or events, and compare the values, worldviews, and beliefs of human cultures and societies in different times and places (perspective)