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Essential Questions
Open-ended and thoughtprovoking questions that link the
curricular areas and engage
students.
How has Canadas identity
been shaped by the
immigration of individuals
from a wide range of ethnic
and cultural backgrounds?
What types of discrimination
have immigrants to Canada
faced?
What factors bring people to
Canada?
Why is the Charter of Rights
and Freedoms important for
Canadian Society?
Social Studies
Grade 5 and 6:
Use Social Studies inquiry
processes and skills to: ask
questions; gather, interpret, and
analyze ideas; and communicate
findings and decisions.
Grade 6:
Take stakeholders perspectives
on issues, developments, and
events by making inferences
about their beliefs, values, and
motivations (perspective).
Arts Education:
Content
Students will know and
understand:
(state in your own words)
Social Studies
Grade 5:
Human rights and responses to
discrimination in Canadian
Society.
Human Charter of Rights and
Freedoms.
Levels of government, their main
functions, and sources of funding.
The changing nature of Canadian
immigration over time.
Grade 5:
Explore connections to identity,
place, culture and belonging
through creative expression.
Grade 6:
Explore relationships between
identity, place, culture, society,
and belonging through the arts.
English Language Arts:
Grade 5:
Use personal experience and
knowledge to connect to text and
develop understanding of self,
community, and world.
Communicate in print, using
letters and words and applying
basic conventions of English
spelling, grammar, and
punctuation.
Grade 6:
Construct meaningful personal
connections between self, text,
and world.
Use an increasing repertoire of
conventions of English spelling,
grammar, and punctuation.
Grade 6:
Global poverty and inequality
issues, including class structure
and gender.
Regional and international
conflict.
Different systems of government.
The urbanization and migration of
people.
Other Evidence:
(formative)
Through what other evidence will students
demonstrate achievement of the desired results as
they move towards the culminating task (s)?
( draft products, observations, conversations
write/say/do)
How will students reflect upon and self assess their
learning?
- written paragraphs
- pod brainstorms
- verbal conversations
- worksheets
- tickets out the door
- partner share
- group share