Social Studies, Grade 10 (Geographic Issues of the 21st Century)
Manitoba · Grade 10 · Social Studies — the complete curriculum-aligned outline, taught skill by skill by MapleMind's AI tutor.
Unit 1: Geographic Literacy
Cluster 1: the tools and ideas of geography — defining geography, physical and human geography, maps of North America and Canada, geography and decision making, place and identity, and map projections.
- Defining geography
- Elements of physical and human geography
- How physical and human geography connect
- Geography and change over time
- Physical features of North America
- Political divisions of North America
- Provinces, territories, and capitals of Canada
- Geography and decision making
- Place and identity
- Maps, globes, and perceptions
Unit 2: Natural Resources
Cluster 2: the Earth's resources — global environmental types, stewardship, natural resources, sustainability, Aboriginal perspectives and rights, competing interests, and global resource extraction.
- Global environmental types
- Global environmental types on a world map
- Global environmental types in Manitoba
- Population and environmental types
- Stewardship of the Earth's environment
- Natural resources on world, North America, and Canada maps
- Sustainability of resource extraction
- Aboriginal perspectives and rights on natural resources
- Competing interests over land and resources
- Changing use of natural resources over time
- Aboriginal peoples in business and industry
- Resource extraction between developed and less-developed countries
Unit 3: Food from the Land
Cluster 3: feeding the world — food production areas and conditions, human and natural factors, changing and prairie farming, agricultural impacts, distribution, genetic modification, water resources, climate change, and food scarcity.
- Major food production areas
- Physical conditions for major food crops
- How natural and human phenomena affect food production
- Human factors in food production and use
- How food production has changed over time
- The changing nature of prairie farming
- Agricultural practices and the environment
- Stages of food production and distribution
- Genetic modification of plants and animals
- Freshwater and saltwater food resources
- Climate change and food production
- Scarcity and distribution of food
Unit 4: Industry and Trade
Cluster 4: how the economy works — types of industry, industrial location, manufacturing regions, Canada's trade, current trade issues, and globalization.
- Types of industry
- Factors that determine the location of industry
- Advantages and disadvantages of a manufacturing location
- Major manufacturing regions
- Canada's major trading partners
- Current issues in industry and trade
- Globalization and its social issues
Unit 5: Urban Places
Cluster 5: cities and their issues — rural/urban/remote places, urban centres and their location, cities of power, urban functions, urbanization, and urban environmental, economic, social, and planning issues.
- Rural, urban, and remote places
- Locating major urban centres
- Factors influencing the location of cities
- Cities as centres of power and wealth
- Functions of urban places
- Urbanization and Canadian ways of life
- Urban environmental and economic issues
- Urban social issues
- The role of urban planning
- Issues of urban growth and decline
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