NEW 2023 - Ontario Grade 6 Social Studies - FULL YEAR BUNDLE

NEW 2023 CURRICULUM! DIGITAL AND PDF VERSIONS BOTH INCLUDED!

FULL YEAR BUNDLE! 325+ worksheets and your entire social studies year planned! This bundle covers all expectations in the Ontario Social Studies Grade 6 Curriculum.

Students will practice literacy skills when demonstrating their understanding of the subject material. These sheets were made for cross-curricular connections between language and social studies. Students will make connections, infer, support their answers with evidence from the text, and summarize. Each worksheet contains a reading followed by questions for them to demonstrate their learning. Students will enjoy the matching, true or false, and multiple choice questions.

Strand A: Communities in Canada, Past and Present

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• The Numbered Treaties – Effect on Indigenous Communities
• Treaties in Ontario – Which Treaty Agreement Covers My Community?
• Early life in my community – settlers and indigenous communities
• Indian Act – Effect on Indigenous Communities
• Residential Schools – Readings and research assignment
• National Aboriginal Veterans Monument - National Indigenous Peoples Day
• Indigenous Group of Seven – Fighting for indigenous art and culture
• Haudenosaunee Confederacy – Impact on the Canadian government structure
• Expulsion of the Acadians – conflict between British and French communities
• Immigration to Canada – Push and Pull Factors
• Immigration Act – Discrimination towards certain ethnicities
• Chinese Head Tax
• Japanese Interments
• Anti-Asian Riots in British Columbia
• Life as a French and British Settler
• Land use in New France and British North American
• The Catholic Church – Schools and religion in Early Canada
• Irish Settlers – Culture and building the canals
• Metis and Irish – Bannock and Red River Jig (Fiddling)
• Home Children
• African Canadians – Slavery and the Underground Railroad
• Doukhobours in Canada – discrimination against a religious group
• The Famous Five – Women’s suffrage (right to vote)
• Urbanization – communities in the city versus in rural areas
• Labour unions – communities improving working conditions
• Inuit community – creation of Nunavut
• Inclusion in Canada – our rights and freedoms
• Canada’s national symbols – the beaver and the maple leaf
• Research assignment – early life in your community
• The Early Jewish Community in Canada – First Jewish settler and first synagogue
• Equal rights for Jewish people – 1832
• Jewish immigration to Canada – factors including WWI and WWII as well as the Holocaust
• The National Holocaust Monument and the Special Envoy – Preserving Holocaust Remembrance
• Discriminatory laws against Jewish people – Quota System, Continuous Journey Regulation
• Newspaper article – Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital Opens Doors to Serve Jewish Community (1923)
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

Strand B: Canada's Interactions with Global Community

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• What is the global community
• Canada’s trading partners
• Imports and exports
• Canada’s top imports and exports
• Free trade and tariffs
• NAFTA – free trade relationship with Mexico and the USA
• USMCA – Replacing NAFTA
• Mapping Canada’s trading partners
• Latitude and longitude
• The latitude and longitude of Canada’s trading partners
• Proximity of Canada’s trading partners – Great Lakes region
• Drawbacks of international trade – loss of manufacturing jobs, invasive species (zebra mussels)
• Intergovernmental organizations (IGOs)
• G20, United Nations, International Criminal Court (ICC), International Labour Organization (ILO), WHO
• The WHOs response to the COVID-19 pandemic
• Other epidemics – Zika and Ebola
• Climate change – global response
• Newspaper article – Canada joins the Kyoto Accord in 1998
• Newspaper assignment – write an article about why Canada withdrew from the Kyoto Accord
• Canada working with other countries – Paris Agreement
• Military alliances – pros and cons
• NATO and NORAD alliances
• Peacekeeping operations in Afghanistan
• NGOs – how they operate and who they help
• Ryan’s Well, Doctors Without Borders, World Vision and more
• Earthquake in Haiti Relief – Canadian government response and Canada Red Cross
• Assignments – Researching NGOs and IGOs
• Genocide – the Holocaust
• Escaping the Holocaust – Canada’s reaction
• “None is too many” – stance Canada had on immigration
• The MS St. Louis – rejecting Jewish passengers
• The Evian Conference – failure to help Jewish refugees
• Canada’s commitment to human rights – Universal Human Rights document
• Changing the criminal code in Canada – making it against the law to promote hate/genocide
• Canada accepts over 60,000 Vietnamese refugees – Vietnam War
• Canada stands up against South Africa in the Apartheid boycott
• Blog post – understanding Bill C-19: Making it illegal to deny the Holocaust happened
• Answer pages for all activities
• Unit Test

***Answer Pages for all worksheets are included

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