Grade 6 Overall Expectations:
Applications: assess contributions to Canadian identity made by various groups and by various features of Canadian communities and regions.
- The Underground Railroad (Book)
- The Underground Railroad (Book)
- Slavery and the Underground Railroad (Book)
- Harriet Tubman Conductor on the Underground Railroad (Book)
- Freedom Roads Searching for the Underground Railroad (Book)
- Chasing Freedom. The Life Journeys of Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony (Book)
- No Safe Harbour. The Halifax Explosion Diary of Charlotte Blackburn (Book)
- Blizzard of Glass. The Halifax Explosion of 1917 (Book)
- Guide to the National Parks of Canada (Book)
- Guide to National Historic Sites of Canada (Book)
- Terry Fox. A Story of Hope. (Book)
- Run (Book)
- Our Flag. The Story of Canada’s Maple Leaf. (Book)
- Great Writers from Our First Nations (Book)
- Great Athletes from Our First Nations (Book)
- Great Women from Our First Nations (Book)
- The Underground Railroad (Hoopla eBook)
- The Underground Railroad (Hoopla eBook)
- Who Traveled the Underground Railroad? (Hoopla eBook)
- Viewpoints on the Underground Railroad (Hoopla eBook)
- Terry Fox (Hoopla eBook)
- National Parks of Canada (Database Article)
- Terry Fox (Database Article)
- Halifax Explosion (Database Article)
- Children of the Halifax Explosion (Database Article)
- National Flag of Canada (Database Article)
- The Ties That Bind (Website)
- Find a National Park (Website)
- Heritage Minutes: Underground Railroad (YouTube)
- Heritage Minutes: Halifax Explosion (YouTube)
- Heritage Minutes: Nitro (YouTube)
- Heritage Minute: Kenojuak Ashevak (YouTube)
- Heritage Minute: Sir Sandford Fleming (YouTube)
- Heritage Minutes: Terry Fox (YouTube)
- Heritage Minute: Soddie (YouTube)
- How Canada’s Flag Was Born (YouTube)
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.
- Africville An African Nova Scotian Community is Abolished and Fights Back (Book)
- Last Days In Africville (Book)
- Residential Schools The Devastating Impact on Canada’s Indigenous People (Book)
- These Are My Words The Residential School Diary of Violet Pesheens (Book)
- Sugar Falls A Residential School Story (Book)
- Secret Path (Book)
- Canada’s First Nations and Cultural Genocide (Book)
- Japanese Canadian Internment In The Second World War (Book)
- Torn Apart The Internment Diary of Mary Kobayashi (Book)
- Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada Metis (Book)
- Blood Upon Our Land The North West Resistance Diary of Josephine Bouvier (Book)
- Louis Riel A Comic-strip Biography (Book)
- Louis Riel (Book)
- Urban Tribes (Book)
- Making It Home The Story of Catherine Parr Traill (Book)
- To Stand and Fight Together Richard Pierpoint and the Coloured Corps of Upper Canada (Book)
- Building Bridges to People Different from You (Hoopla eBook)
- Warbird (Hoopla eBook)
- Justin Trudeau (Hoopla eBook)
- Catherine Parr Traill (Database Article)
- Susanna Moodie (Database Article)
- Primary and Secondary Sources (Website)
- Online Graphic Organizers (Website)
- Canada Had Three Founding Peoples, Not Two (Website)
- Metis Museum (Website)
- Louis Riel (Website)
- The Metis (Website)
- Riel: Hero, Not Traitor (Website)
- First Nations of Canada (Website)
- Indigenous in the City (Website)
- Heritage Minutes: Chanie Wenjack (YouTube)
- The Secret Path: In the Classroom (YouTube)
- Heritage Minutes: Richard Pierpoint (YouTube)
Understanding Context: demonstrate an understanding of significant experiences of, and major changes and aspects of life in, various historical and contemporary communities in Canada.
- Finding Home the Journey of Immigrants and Refugees (Book)
- The Komagata Maru And Canada’s Anti-Indian Immigration Policies in The Twentieth Century (Book)
- The Chinese Head Tax and Anti-Chinese Immigration Policies in The Twentieth Century (Book)
- An Ocean Apart the Gold Mountain Diary of Chin Mei-Ling (Book)
- The Komagata Maru and Canada’s Anti-Indian Immigration Polices in the Twentieth Century (Book)
- Making Canada Home How Immigrants Shaped This Country (Book)
- Pier 21 Stories from Near and Far (Book)
- I Am Not A Number (Book)
- Refugee (Book)
- Pieces of the Past the Holocaust Diary of Rose Rabinowitz (Book)
- Black Potatoes the Story of the Great Irish Famine 1845-1850 (Book)
- The Kids Book of Canadian Immigration (Book)
- Kids Around the World Celebrate! (Book)
- Cultural Traditions in Canada (Book)
- Immigration (Hoopla eBook)
- Refugee (Hoopla eAudiobook)
- Ethnic Identity (Database Article)
- NFB: Legacies 150 (Website)
- How to Trace Your Family Tree (Website)
- Canadian Facts for Kids (Website)
- Canada Guide: Basics (Website)
- Canada Guide: Places (Website)
- World Festivals and Holidays (Website)
- Family (Database Article)
- Discover Canada: Who We Are (Website)
- Government of Canada: Interactive Maps (Website)
- Immigration in Canada (Database Article)
- Immigration and Enthnocultural Diversity in Canada (Website)
- Underground Railroad (Website)
- Canada’s Immigration History (YouTube)
- Welcome to Canada: 150 Years of Immigration (YouTube)
- Multiculturalism as a Threat and Multiculturalism as an Asset (YouTube)
- Multicultural Canada Day Celebrations (YouTube)
- Census Reveals Growing Canadian Diversity (YouTube)