🌎 Grade 5 Social Studies

Units

1. Unit 1

   🧡Learning from the Past

   An age-appropriate, factual look at the Chinese Head Tax, the Komagata Maru, the internment of Japanese Canadians and residential schools, with a focus on apologies, redress and reconciliation. No graphic detail.

   Skill descriptor: History: Sources and Methods · how historians use evidence and thinking concepts to answer questions about the past

2. Unit 2

   ⚓French & British in Atlantic Canada

   Practises the evidence of British and French presence in Atlantic Canada, using primary and secondary sources. It follows the Grade 5 social studies skill descriptors on human systems and on historical sources in the New Brunswick curriculum.

   Skill descriptor: Geography: Human Systems and Interactions, History: Sources and Methods · evidence of British and French presence in Atlantic Canada, and using primary and secondary sources

3. Unit 3

   🪶The Wabanaki Confederacy

   Practises the governance structure and role of the Wabanaki Confederacy and the Peace and Friendship treaties. The content is light, in the present tense, and needs review by Wabanaki partners. It follows the Grade 5 social studies skill descriptors on power and governance and on reconciliation in the New Brunswick curriculum.

   Skill descriptor: Civics: Power and Governance, Wabanaki: Reconciliation · the governance structure and role of the Wabanaki Confederacy, and contact and colonization from Wabanaki perspectives

4. Unit 4

   ⚖️Worldviews & Deciding Together

   Practises how different worldviews lead to different approaches to economic decisions, with examples such as barter, the fur trade and Netukulimk. It follows the Grade 5 social studies skill descriptors on economic decision-making in the New Brunswick curriculum.

   Skill descriptor: Economics: Decision-Making · worldview, and how different worldviews lead to different approaches to economic decision-making