🌎 Grade 6 Social Studies

Units

1. Unit 1

   🧭Map Skills

   Reading latitude and longitude on a grid and in a table, telling which hemispheres a place is in, and knowing the continents, oceans and key lines like the equator and prime meridian.

   Skill descriptor: Geography: Methods and Tools · reading maps to locate the Atlantic region and other places

2. Unit 2

   🧭The Atlantic Region

   Practises where the Atlantic region is, its physical features and weather, and the cultural, ethnic and linguistic groups who live there. It follows the Grade 6 social studies skill descriptors on geography in the New Brunswick curriculum.

   Skill descriptor: Geography: Methods and Tools, Geography: Human Systems and Interactions · locating the Atlantic region, its physical features and weather, and its cultural groups

3. Unit 3

   🍁What Makes Canada, Canada?

   Official languages, parliamentary democracy and the constitutional monarchy, multiculturalism, the Charter, built and physical features, and groups working for inclusion.

   Skill descriptor: Geography: Human Systems and Interactions · contemporary cultures and their connections to other global cultures

4. Unit 4

   🏛️Governments & Rights

   Democracy, constitutional monarchy, dictatorship and other systems; how Canada's government works; and rights in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Canadian Charter.

   Skill descriptor: Civics: Power and Governance · how people shape political culture and influence decisions

5. Unit 5

   🐟Working in the Atlantic Region

   Practises the role of economics in the Atlantic region, from primary industries to trade and sustainability. It follows the Grade 6 social studies skill descriptors on economics in the New Brunswick curriculum.

   Skill descriptor: Economics: Systems, Economics: Sustainability · the role of economics in the Atlantic region, local and global economic patterns, and sustainable resource use

6. Unit 6

   🚢Trade & Globalization

   Imports and exports, market, command, traditional and mixed economies, supply and demand, tariffs and trade disputes, and the benefits and costs of globalization, presented from several points of view.

   Skill descriptor: Economics: Decision-making · trade and economic links with national and global communities

7. Unit 7

   🌍Global Challenges

   Poverty and inequality, global environmental problems, and how individuals, governments, NGOs and the UN work together, including the Montreal Protocol as a cooperation success story.

   Skill descriptor: Economics: Sustainability · local, regional and global economic patterns and issues

8. Unit 8

   🤲Helping Around the World

   How governments, NGOs and citizens respond to disasters and global issues, the Montreal Protocol and Paris Agreement, refugees, and a factual look at Canada's response to the MS St. Louis in 1939.

   Skill descriptor: Civics: Civic Engagement · how people are members of global communities