Grade 9 Social Studies
9 units matched to the Prince Edward Island Curriculum.
Learning focus
- Citizenship, Power, and Governance. Learners will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of the rights and responsibilities of citizenship and the origins, functions, and sources of power, authority, and governance.
- Culture and Diversity. Learners will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of culture, diversity, and worldview, recognizing the similarities and differences reflected in various personal, cultural, racial, and ethnic perspectives.
- Individuals, Societies, and Economic Decisions. Social studies provides learners with the knowledge and skills necessary to make personal economic decisions and to participate in the process of societal economic decision-making.
- Interdependence. Learners will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of the interdependent relationship among individuals, societies, and the environment — locally, nationally, and globally — and the implications for a sustainable future.
- People, Place, and Environment. Learners will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of the interactions among people, places, and the environment.
- Time, Continuity, and Change. Learners will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of the past, and how it affects the present and the future.
Units
Unit 1
Thinking Like a Geographer
Practises the disciplinary thinking used throughout Grade 9 social studies: what makes a place significant, how people and the environment affect each other, continuity and change, and weighing implications.
Curriculum outcome: DT1; DT2; DT3; DT4 · the geographic thinking skills of significance, cause and effect, continuity and change, and implications
Unit 2
Maps, Graphs & Data
Practises analysing geographical information with geographical tools such as maps, graphs and data tables, and communicating it clearly.
Curriculum outcome: SCO1; SCO2 · analysing geographical information with maps, graphs and data, and sharing it clearly
Unit 3
World Climates and Biomes
Practises what controls climate (latitude, elevation, nearness to water, winds and currents), the world’s major biomes, reading climographs, and how climate and people affect each other.
Curriculum outcome: DT1; DT2 · how physical features and climate make places significant, and how people and environments influence each other
Unit 4
Where People Settle
Practises how natural and human factors influence where people settle, and how settlement patterns look on a map.
Curriculum outcome: SCO3 · how natural and human factors influence settlement patterns
Unit 5
A Changing Population
How an aging population, small-town decline and city growth affect people, government strategies on immigration and families, the 'rule of 70', and how people in Canada respond to global population issues.
Curriculum outcome: SCO4 · challenges of population growth, aging, city growth and where people choose to live
Unit 6
Sustainability & Our Choices
Practises the factors that contribute to environmental issues and ways that individuals and communities can become more sustainable.
Curriculum outcome: SCO5; SCO6 · factors behind environmental issues and ways to become more sustainable
Unit 7
Globalization
Practises the benefits and challenges of globalization, past and present, and its effect on culture.
Curriculum outcome: SCO7; SCO8 · benefits and challenges of globalization, and its impact on culture
Unit 8
Global Citizenship
Practises the factors behind global inequalities, the link between human rights and globalization, and how to analyse current issues from several points of view.
Curriculum outcome: SCO9; SCO10; SCO11 · global inequalities, universal human rights and current issues seen from many perspectives
Unit 9
Social Action
Practises how people affect societal change locally and globally, and how to plan action on an issue using the concepts of geographical thinking.
Curriculum outcome: SCO12; SCO13 · ways people create change, and planning action on a local or global issue
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