Grade 6 Overall Expectations:
Applications: assess contributions to Canadian identity made by various groups and by various features of Canadian communities and regions.
- Heritage Minutes: Underground Railroad (Video, YouTube)
- Heritage Minutes: Halifax Explosion (Video, YouTube)
- Heritage Minutes: Nitro (Video, YouTube)
- The Ties That Bind (Website)
- Heritage Minute: Kenojuak Ashevak (Video, YouTube)
- Heritage Minute: Sir Sandford Fleming (Video, YouTube)
- Heritage Minutes: Terry Fox (Video, YouTube)
- Heritage Minute: Soddie (Video, YouTube)
- Find a National Park ( Website)
- How Canada’s Flag Was Born (Video, YouTube)
- The Underground Railroad (eBook from Hoopla)
- Chaos in Halifax (eBook from Ebsco Host)
- National Parks of Canada (Website)
Inquiry: use the social studies inquiry process to investigate different perspectives on the historical and/or contemporary experience of two or more distinct communities in Canada.
- Primary and Secondary Sources (Website)
- Online Graphic Organizers (Website)
- Justin Trudeau (eBook from Hoopla)
- Heritage Minutes: Chanie Wenjack (Video, YouTube)
- The Secret Path: In The Classroom (Video, YouTube)
- Heritage Minutes: Richard Pierpoint (Video, YouTube)
- Building Bridges to People Different From You (eBook from Hoopla)
- Warbird (eBook from Hoopla)
- Canada Had Three Founding Peoples, Not Two (Website)
- Louis Riel (Website)
- The Metis (Website)
- Riel: Hero, Not Traitor (Website)
- Susanna Moodie (Website)
- Catherine Parr Traill (Website)
- First Nations of Canada (Website)
- Indigenous in the City (Video from Curio)
Understanding Context: demonstrate an understanding of significant experiences of, and major changes and aspects of life in, various historical and contemporary communities in Canada.
- Canada’s Immigration History (Video, YouTube)
- Welcome to Canada: 150 Years of Immigration (Video, YouTube)
- NFB: Legacies 150 (Website)
- Census Reveals Growing Canadian Diversity (Video, YouTube)
- How to Trace Your Family Tree (Website)
- Canadian Facts for Kids (Website)
- Canada Guide: Basics (Website)
- Canada Guide: Places (Website)
- Multiculturalism as a Threat and Multiculturalism as an Asset (Video, YouTube)
- Multicultural Canada Day Celebrations (Video, YouTube)
- World Festivals and Holidays (Website)
- Family (Website)
- Ethnic Identity (Website)
- Discover Canada: Who We Are (Website)
- Government of Canada: Interactive Maps (Website)
- Immigration in Canada (Website)
- Immigration (eBook from Hoopla)
- Immigration and Enthnocultural Diversity in Canada (Website)
- Underground Railroad (Website)