Social Studies, Grade 7

Unit 1: Civics - 1. Citizenship, Power, and Governance

Exploring the general concept of empowerment and the extent of empowerment of individuals, groups, and the nation up to 1920.

• The general concept of empowerment
• The extent of empowerment up to 1920

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

Investigating how economics empowers or disempowers people, how commodities of economic empowerment have changed, trends impacting future economic empowerment, and the Industrial Revolution.

• How economics empowers or disempowers
• How commodities of empowerment changed
• Trends impacting future economic empowerment

• Impact of the Industrial Revolution on workers

Unit 3: Politics - 3. Citizenship, Power, and Governance

The struggle for responsible government, the factors leading to Confederation, the political structure resulting from Confederation, and events leading Canada toward independence.

• Responsible government and empowerment

• Perspectives and factors leading to Confederation
• Was Confederation democratic?
• Canada's political structure after Confederation
• Events leading Canada toward independence

Unit 4: Anthropology - 4. Culture and Diversity

Analysing the empowerment and disempowerment of Indigenous peoples in Atlantic Canada, and the struggle for empowerment by new cultural groups immigrating to Canada between 1870 and 1914.

• Indigenous peoples and their way of life
• The impact of policies, treaties, and the Indian Act

• Immigrant groups' struggle for empowerment

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

Evaluating the conditions of everyday life for diverse peoples in British North America in the mid-1800s and at the turn of the 20th century, and how women became more empowered through social reform movements.

• Everyday life for diverse peoples in the mid-1800s

• Everyday life at the turn of the 20th century

• Women's empowerment through social reform

Unit 6: History - 6. Time, Continuity, and Change

The expansion and development of Canada in the 1870s-80s, the Northwest Rebellion, and Canada's participation in and the impact of WWI.

• Expansion's effect on people and regions

• The Northwest Rebellion and perspectives on Louis Riel

• Causes of WWI and Canada's participation
• The impact of WWI on Canada and its people