Grade 6 Overall Expectations:
Application: explain the importance of international cooperation in addressing global issues, and evaluate the effectiveness of selected actions by Canada and Canadian citizens in the international arena.
- Heritage Minutes: “Boat People” Refugees (Video, YouTube)
- The Red Cross (eBook from Hoopla)
- Doctors Without Borders (eBook from Hoopla)
- The World Health Organization (Website)
- World Health Organization (eBook from Hoopla)
- Heritage Minutes: Dextraze in the Congo – United Nations Peacekeepers (Video, YouTube)
- NATO, the Warsaw Pact and the Iron Curtain (eBook from Hoopla)
- Syrian Heritage (eBook from Hoopla)
- A Long Walk to Water (e-Audiobook from Hoopla)
- Inside Out and Back Again (e-Audiobook from Hoopla)
- Native Land Interactive Map (Website)
- Mobilizing Action Plan for an Outbreak (Website)
- Trading Around the World (Website)
- Government of Canada: Canada and the Asia-Pacific (Website)
- The APEC Summit and Canada’s Reputation in Asia (Website)
- Canada and APEC (Website)
- APEC: Imagine the Possibilities (Video, YouTube)
- OEC: Canada (Website)
Inquiry: use the social studies inquiry process to investigate some global issues of political, social, economic, and/or environmental importance, their impact on the global community, and responses to the issues.
- Many Windows (eBook from Cloud Library)
- I Survived the Japanese Tsunami (eAudio Book from Hoopla)
- The Inspiring Journey of Three Canadian Teenagers (Video from Curio)
- Refugee – By Alan Gratz (eBook from Cloud Library)
- Refugee – By Alan Gratz (eAudiobook from Cloud Library)
- We Are Displaced. By Malala Yousafzai (eAudio Book from Cloud Library)
- I Am Malala (eAudio Book from Cloud Library)
- Government of Canada: Canada’s Action on Climate Change (Website)
- Government of Canada: Canada’s Response to Conflict, Crises and Disaster (Website)
- Deforestation: Facts, Causes and Effects (Website)
- Encyclopedia of the Nations (Website)
- National Geographic: Interactive Map Maker (Website)
Understanding Context: describe significant aspects of the involvement of Canada and Canadians in some regions around the world, including the impact of this involvement.
- My Fairtrade Adventure (Video, YouTube)
- United Nations (eBook from Hoopla)
- World Health Organization – World No Tobacco Day (Website)
- Canada and Peacekeeping(Website)
- Great Lake (Website)
- Save on Energy (Website)
- Energy 101: Solar Power (Video, YouTube)
- Energy 101: Wind Power (Video, YouTube)
- Energy 101: Hydropower (Video, YouTube)
- Energy 101: Geothermal Energy (Video, YouTube)
- Energy 101: Geothermal Heat Pumps (Video, YouTube)
- The United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Website)
- Invasive Species in Canada – Animals (Website)
- Environmental Movement in Canada (Website)
- The Canadian Pipeline (Website)