Grade 2 Overall Expectations:
Application: compare some significant traditions and celebrations among diverse groups and at different times, and identify some of the reasons for changes in these traditions/celebrations.
- Chinese New Year, Kids Style (Video – Curio)
- Canada’s 150th Birthday (eBook – Ebsco Host)
- National Indigenous History Month (Interactive Website)
- CBC Kids: How to Pow Wow (YouTube)
- World Festivals and Holidays (Interactive Website)
- Birthday Celebrations Around the World (Website)
- Holidays and Traditions (eBook – Hoopla)
- Christmas Around the World (Interactive Website)
- Diwali (Interactive Website)
- Day of the Dead (Interactive Website)
- Family (eBook – Hoopla)
Inquiry: use the social studies inquiry process to investigate some of the past and present traditions and celebrations within their own family and the communities to which they belong.
- Back in Time for Dinner: the 1960’s (Video – Curio)
- A Visual Dictionary of a Pioneer Community (eBook – Ebsco Host)
- The New Land: A Year on the Prairie (eBook – Ebsco Host)
- Primary and Secondary Sources (YouTube)
- Jewish Kids Club (Interactive Website)
- International Recipes for Kids (Website)
- Cultures of the World (YouTube)
- Read Aloud: Franklin Celebrates (YouTube)
Understanding Context: describe some of the major groups in their community, including different types of families, and some of the ways in which traditions and heritage are passed on by such groups.
- Holidays Around the World (YouTube)
- Different Families (eBook – Hoopla)
- My Family, Your Family (e-Audiobook – Hoopla)
- My Community Long Ago (eBook – Ebsco Host)
- First Nations Heroes (Website)
- Different Types of Families: Learning Diversity for Children (YouTube)
- Silas’ Seven Grandparents (eBook – Hoopla)
- Cultures of the World (Video – YouTube)
- A Family Is A Family Is A Family (eBook – Hoopla)
- My Blended Family (eBook – Hoopla)
- My Special Needs Family (eBook – Hoopla)
- My Adopted Family (eBook – Hoopla)
- My First-Generation Family (eBook – Hoopla)