Social Studies, Grade 5

Unit 1: Social Studies Concepts and Skills - 1. Integrated Concepts and Process Skills (ICPS)

Demonstrating proficiency in utilizing concepts and processes from the social sciences - inquiry, issues analysis, and forms of analysis for studying past and present societies.

• Inquiry and issues analysis
• Forms of analysis and habits of mind

Unit 2: History - 2. Individuals, Societies, and Economic Decisions

Explaining the decision-making practices used by First Nation and Inuit societies in the Atlantic region (c. 1000-1400 CE) - decisions, social structures, and how structure shaped decision-making.

• Decisions to meet needs and wants
• Social structure and who made decisions

Unit 3: History - 3. Interdependence

Explaining the importance of social structure in a society from the middle ages - illustrating the structure, comparing lifestyles, and human-environmental interactions.

• Locating a medieval society
• Social structure, lifestyles, and environment

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

Explaining how environment influenced the development of an ancient society, and the diversity of First Nation and Inuit societies in what later became Canada (c. 1000-1400 CE).

• Locating an ancient society
• How geographic features shaped development
• Human-environmental interactions

• Diversity and naming First Nation and Inuit peoples
• Adapting to the environment

Unit 5: History - 5. Time, Continuity, and Change

Understanding how we learn about the past, analysing interactions between British and French settlers and First Nation and Inuit societies in the Atlantic region (c. 1650-1800 CE), and comparing past and present-day societies.

• Primary sources, archaeologists, and historians
• The challenges of writing history

• Locating settler societies
• Why settlers came and how they lived
• Beneficial and devastating consequences of contact

• Comparing past and present societies