Social Studies, Grade 1

Unit 1: Social Studies Concepts and Skills - 1. Civic Engagement

Developing the ability to interact effectively as members of Canadian society - democratic principles, collaboration, and promoting positive change in the classroom and community.

• Fairness, rules, and taking turns
• Working together in a group
• Being a good citizen and helping others

Unit 2: Social Studies Concepts and Skills - 2. Inquiry and Research

Using concepts and skills common to the social sciences (evidence, comparison, causality, perspective) and using inquiry processes to investigate and respond to issues.

• Using evidence and making comparisons
• Understanding causes and other people's feelings

• Asking questions and gathering information
• Making sense, deciding, and sharing

Unit 3: Anthropology - 3. Culture and Diversity

Recognizing social and cultural diversity as features of communities, and recognizing that respecting the rights and responsibilities of community members is mutually beneficial.

• Social and cultural groups
• How diversity helps our community

• What rights and responsibilities mean
• Why respecting others helps everyone

Unit 4: Geography - 4. People, Place, and Environment

Recognizing that local, national, and global environments have natural and human features, and identifying ways that humans interact with and depend upon the environment.

• Telling natural and human features apart
• Comparing environments near and far

• Ways we depend on the environment
• Caring for the environment

Unit 5: Economics - 5. Individuals, Societies, and Economic Decisions

Demonstrating an understanding of factors that influence how people meet their needs and wants.

• Needs and wants
• What makes meeting needs easier or harder

Unit 6: Economics - 6. Interdependence

Recognizing that people depend on each other to meet their needs and wants.

• How people rely on one another
• Communities differ, and helping everyone

Unit 7: History - 7. Time, Continuity, and Change

Recognizing that features of the local community change over time, and identifying changes that occur in how people interact within communities.

• Features that change over time

• Changing ways people interact