History and Geography, Grade 7
Ontario · Grade 7 · Social Studies — the complete curriculum-aligned outline, taught skill by skill by MapleMind's AI tutor.
Unit 1: New France and British North America (1713-1800)
The experiences of various groups and communities — including First Nations, Métis, and Inuit — in Canada between 1713 and 1800 compared with life today; the challenges people faced and their responses; the displacement of peoples; and the significant people, events, treaties, political, legal, social, and economic changes, and daily life of the period, including the shift in power from France to Britain.
- Life then and now (1713-1800)
- Challenges and how people responded
- Displacement in the period
- Key events and their significance
- Treaties and wampum belts
- Political and legal changes
- Social and economic changes
- Daily life in Indigenous communities
- Daily life in newcomer communities
- Significant interactions and institutions
- Significant individuals and groups
Unit 2: Canada, 1800-1850: Conflict and Challenges
The lives of various groups and communities in Canada between 1800 and 1850 compared with the previous era; the challenges people faced and their responses; the displacement of peoples; and the significant people, events, treaties, and political, legal, social, and economic changes of the period, including the War of 1812, the Rebellions of 1837-38, and the move toward responsible government.
- Social and political values, 1800-1850
- Challenges and responses, 1800-1850
- Displacement, 1800-1850
- Key events and trends
- Treaties and wampum belts, 1800-1850
- Political and legal changes
- Social and economic changes
- Significant interactions between groups
- Significant individuals and groups
Unit 3: Physical Patterns in a Changing World
The challenges and opportunities presented by the physical environment and how people have responded to them, comparing perspectives and assessing sustainability; and the patterns in Earth's physical features — landforms, water bodies and systems, climate regions, and natural vegetation — and the natural processes and human activities that create and change them.
- Responses to the physical environment
- Comparing perspectives on the environment
- Which environments affect people most
- Same environment, different responses
- Landforms and their locations
- Processes that shape landforms
- Reading topographical maps
- Water bodies and systems
- Processes that change water systems
- Major climate regions
- Processes that change climate patterns
- Analysing and constructing climate graphs
- Major natural vegetation regions
- Processes that change vegetation
- How physical features interact
Unit 4: Natural Resources around the World: Use and Sustainability
The extraction/harvesting and use of natural resources in different regions, the sustainability of these practices, and efforts to preserve resources; and an understanding of Earth's renewable, non-renewable, and flow resources, how people use the natural environment, the effects of resource use, differing perspectives, and responses to the challenges that arise.
- Location, extraction, and use of resources
- Resource use and sustainability by region
- Efforts to preserve resources
- A personal plan for sustainable resource use
- Renewable, non-renewable, and flow resources
- How people use the natural environment
- Effects of resource use
- Perspectives on using resources
- Responses to resource challenges
- GIS maps of natural resources
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