Social Studies 2202 (Applied)

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

How democratic principles and civic engagement can influence the human experience.

• The principles of Canadian democracy in everyday life
• Working together and taking action

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

Analyzing information, events, ideas, and issues, responding to significant issues, and judging the significance of emerging innovations, political, economic, and geopolitical developments.

• Checking evidence, comparing, and asking why
• What matters, whose view, and what's fair

• Asking a good question and finding information
• Reading the information and backing up your answer

• Sizing up a new innovation or idea
• Sizing up a political event
• Sizing up an economic trend
• Sizing up a conflict between countries

Unit 3: History - 3. Time, Continuity, and Change

How innovations and ideas have influenced the human experience across the eras of human history.

• Tools of the earliest humans and the first farmers
• Inventions from ancient times to today

• How people saw the world before science
• How science changed the way people think

Unit 4: History - 4. Citizenship, Power, and Governance

How ideas of governance have changed over time and how the relationship between the individual and the state changed in Western Europe.

• Ways countries are run
• Where the idea of a citizen came from

• Life under kings and the Church
• How people gained rights

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

Developments in economics from the Paleolithic Era to the Early Modern Era, and economic innovations and ideas of the Late Modern Era.

• From finding food to trading
• Towns, markets, and growing trade

• Capitalism and the factory age
• Socialism and sharing the wealth

Unit 6: History - 6. Interdependence

How conflict and cooperation, and ideology, influenced the human experience across history and in the Modern Era.

• Why people fight and why they team up
• Fighting and teaming up through the ages

• Empire-building and its effects
• Countries working together worldwide