Alberta · Grade 10
Social Studies 10-1
- SST1771
Alberta’s Grade 10 social studies course, from Globalization & Identity to Citizenship & Globalization.
- Units
- 4
- Lessons
- 10
- Skills
- 29
- Provincial exam
- None
- Official curriculum
- Alberta Education
Unit by unit
Every skill in the course, with its official code.
Unit 1 · 6 skills
Globalization & Identity
Expressing Identity in a Globalizing World
How identities are expressed
I can explore the many ways individuals and collectives express their identities.
Official code: 1.4
Dimensions of globalization
I can explore the political, economic and social dimensions of globalization.
Official code: 1.5
Communications technology, media and diversity
I can examine the impact of communications technology and media on diversity.
Official code: 1.6
Opportunities & Challenges to Identity
Opportunities globalization presents
I can analyze the opportunities globalization presents to identities and cultures.
Official code: 1.7
Challenges globalization presents
I can analyze the challenges globalization presents to identities and cultures.
Official code: 1.8
Promoting languages and cultures
I can evaluate efforts to promote languages and cultures in a globalizing world.
Official code: 1.9
The official wording · 6 outcomes
- 1.4
- explore ways in which individuals and collectives express identities
- 1.5
- explore understandings and dimensions of globalization
- 1.6
- examine the impact of communications technology and media on diversity
- 1.7
- analyze opportunities presented by globalization to identities and cultures
- 1.8
- analyze challenges presented by globalization to identities and cultures
- 1.9
- evaluate efforts to promote languages and cultures in a globalizing world
Key ideas
Identity is expressed through many channels: traditions, language, religion, the arts, attire, relationship to land, and ideological beliefs.
Globalization can strengthen identity: cultural revitalization, affirmation, integration, acculturation on a community's own terms.
Identity is both individual and collective — a person and a group each carry it.
Connection spreads culture — a local tradition can find a global audience and new life.
Globalization is the deepening connection of the world — it has political, economic and social dimensions, not just trade.
Watch out for
- Thinking identity is only ethnicity or nationality — it is many overlapping expressions.
- Assuming globalization only threatens identity.
- Assuming identity is fixed rather than expressed and reshaped over time.
Every skill’s key ideas, worked examples and checks are in MapleMind.Practise this unit
Unit 2 · 8 skills
Legacies of Historical Globalization
Foundations of Historical Globalization
Impacts of cultural contact
I can examine the impacts of cultural contact between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples.
Official code: 2.6
Foundations: capitalism, imperialism, Eurocentrism
I can explore the foundations of historical globalization — capitalism, industrialization, imperialism and Eurocentrism.
Official code: 2.7
Historical globalization and imperialism
I can explore the relationship between historical globalization and imperialism.
Official code: 2.8
Legacies & Responses
Multiple perspectives on impacts
I can examine multiple perspectives on the impacts of historical globalization and imperialism.
Official code: 2.9
Contemporary legacies (residential schools)
I can analyze contemporary issues that have origins in post-colonial policies.
Official code: 2.11
Addressing the consequences
I can evaluate attempts to address the consequences of imperialist policies on Indigenous peoples.
Official code: 2.12
Imperialist Policies & Enduring Legacies
Imperialist policies affecting Indigenous peoples
I can examine imperialist policies and practices that affected Indigenous peoples.
Official code: 2.10
Legacies that still influence globalization
I can examine legacies of historical globalization and imperialism that continue to influence globalization.
Official code: 2.13
The official wording · 8 outcomes
- 2.6
- examine impacts of cultural contact between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples
- 2.7
- explore the foundations of historical globalization
- 2.8
- explore the relationship between historical globalization and imperialism
- 2.9
- examine multiple perspectives on the political, economic and social impacts of historical globalization and imperialism
- 2.11
- analyze contemporary global issues that have origins in policies and practices of post-colonial governments
- 2.12
- evaluate various attempts to address consequences of imperialist policies and practices on Indigenous peoples
- 2.10
- examine imperialist policies and practices that affected Indigenous peoples
- 2.13
- examine legacies of historical globalization and imperialism that continue to influence globalization
Key ideas
Contact brought exchange of goods and technologies — but also depopulation (disease) and lasting changes to government and social institutions.
The same events look different from different positions — coloniser and colonised, beneficiary and harmed.
Empires imposed deliberate policies on Indigenous peoples: British rule in India, British and French rule in Canada, and later post-colonial governments in Canada.
Impacts flowed both ways, but rarely on equal terms — power shaped who gained and who lost.
Examining multiple perspectives is a discipline: represent each fairly before judging.
Watch out for
- Presentism — judging past contact only by today's values without understanding the context.
- Collapsing multiple perspectives into one "correct" view too quickly.
- Presentism — judging imperial policy only by today's values without understanding its colonial logic.
Every skill’s key ideas, worked examples and checks are in MapleMind.Practise this unit
Unit 3 · 7 skills
Globalization & Sustainable Prosperity
The Economics of Globalization
Understanding economic globalization
I can explore understandings of contemporary economic globalization.
Official code: 3.3
Foundations of contemporary globalization
I can examine the foundations of contemporary globalization.
Official code: 3.4
Factors expanding globalization
I can analyze the factors that expanded globalization since the Second World War.
Official code: 3.5
Challenges and opportunities
I can analyze the political and economic challenges and opportunities of globalization.
Official code: 3.6
Environment & Sustainability
Globalization and the environment
I can evaluate actions and policies of globalization that impact the environment.
Official code: 3.8
People, the land and globalization
I can explore multiple perspectives on the relationship among people, the land and globalization.
Official code: 3.7
Perspectives on sustainability
I can analyze multiple perspectives on sustainability and prosperity in a globalizing world.
Official code: 3.9
The official wording · 7 outcomes
- 3.3
- explore understandings of contemporary economic globalization
- 3.4
- examine the foundations of contemporary globalization
- 3.5
- analyze factors contributing to the expansion of globalization since the Second World War
- 3.6
- analyze political and economic challenges and opportunities of globalization
- 3.8
- evaluate actions and policies associated with globalization that impact the environment
- 3.7
- explore multiple perspectives regarding the relationship among people, the land and globalization
- 3.9
- analyze multiple perspectives on sustainability and prosperity in a globalizing world
Key ideas
Economic globalization is the worldwide integration of markets, production and trade.
Globalization drives land and resource use, resource development agreements, and environmental legislation — each with environmental consequences.
It runs on flows: goods, capital, labour and information moving across borders.
Evaluation weighs economic gain against environmental cost, with criteria.
Contemporary globalization rests on ideas and institutions: the free-market thinking of F. A. Hayek and Milton Friedman, and the postwar financial order built at the Bretton Woods Conference.
Watch out for
- Thinking economic globalization only means "cheaper stuff".
- Assuming all development is either good (jobs) or bad (harm) without weighing.
- Assuming markets are the only actor (states and institutions shape them).
Every skill’s key ideas, worked examples and checks are in MapleMind.Practise this unit
Unit 4 · 8 skills
Citizenship & Globalization
Globalization’s Impacts on People
Impacts on children and youth
I can analyze the impacts of globalization on children and youth.
Official code: 4.5
Globalization, democratization and human rights
I can evaluate the relationships between globalization, democratization and human rights.
Official code: 4.7
Effects on individuals and communities
I can analyze how globalization affects individuals and communities.
Official code: 4.8
Quality of Life & Impacts on Women
Understandings of quality of life
I can explore various understandings of quality of life.
Official code: 4.4
Impacts of globalization on women
I can analyze the impacts of globalization on women.
Official code: 4.6
Acting as a Global Citizen
Means to address globalization
I can evaluate the means by which people, governments, organizations and businesses address globalization.
Official code: 4.10
Perspectives on civic responsibilities
I can explore multiple perspectives on the civic responsibilities of individuals, governments, organizations and businesses toward globalization.
Official code: 4.9
Active, responsible global citizenship
I can develop strategies to demonstrate active, responsible global citizenship.
Official code: 4.11
The official wording · 8 outcomes
- 4.5
- analyze impacts of globalization on children and youth
- 4.7
- evaluate relationships between globalization and democratization and human rights
- 4.8
- analyze how globalization affects individuals and communities
- 4.4
- explore various understandings of quality of life
- 4.6
- analyze impacts of globalization on women
- 4.10
- evaluate means by which individuals, governments, organizations and businesses could address opportunities and challenges of globalization
- 4.9
- explore multiple perspectives regarding the civic responsibilities that individuals, governments, organizations and businesses may have in addressing opportunities and challenges presented by globalization
- 4.11
- develop strategies to demonstrate active, responsible global citizenship
Key ideas
Globalization shapes youth through awareness of global issues, employment prospects, and identity.
Quality of life means different things: income and consumption, but also health, education, security, environment, culture and freedom.
Responses range widely: pro- and anti-globalization activism, legislation, international agreements, and consumer activism.
Impacts are uneven — a connected youth in one country faces very different realities than another.
Societies measure it differently — GDP per person is only one lens, and it can hide how well people actually live.
Watch out for
- Assuming globalization affects all youth the same way.
- Equating quality of life with money alone.
- Assuming activism or legislation automatically succeeds.
Every skill’s key ideas, worked examples and checks are in MapleMind.Practise this unit
Plan the term
Pick your term and the days you study. Each unit gets its share of the weeks and comes back a week later for a review. The last two weeks go over the whole course.
Which course?
Alberta has 2 social studies courses for Grade 10. Here they are side by side.
- Social Studies 10-1This courseSST17714 units · 29 skillsNo provincial examWhat it coversGlobalization & Identity · Legacies of Historical Globalization · Globalization & Sustainable Prosperity · Citizenship & Globalization
- Social Studies 10-2SST17724 units · 28 skillsNo provincial examWhat it coversGlobalization & Identity · Historical Globalization & Imperialism · Globalization, the Economy & the Environment · Quality of Life & Global Citizenship
What a university, college or program asks for is theirs to say: check its admission page, and your school’s course guide.
The official curriculum
This page follows Alberta’s own curriculum for Social Studies 10-1.
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Questions about Social Studies 10-1
What is Social Studies 10-1?
Alberta’s Grade 10 social studies course: 4 units and 29 skills, from Globalization & Identity to Citizenship & Globalization.
What units are in Social Studies 10-1?
1. Globalization & Identity, 2. Legacies of Historical Globalization, 3. Globalization & Sustainable Prosperity and 4. Citizenship & Globalization.
Is there a provincial exam for Social Studies 10-1?
No. Alberta gives no provincial exam for Social Studies 10-1.
What comes after Social Studies 10-1?
Social Studies 20-1 and Social Studies 20-2.
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