History and Geography, Grade 8
Ontario · Grade 8 · Social Studies — the complete curriculum-aligned outline, taught skill by skill by MapleMind's AI tutor.
Unit 1: Creating Canada (1850-1890)
The social, economic, and political factors — including inequalities — that shaped various groups and communities and the creation and expansion of the Dominion of Canada between 1850 and 1890; and the significant people, events, and developments of the period, including Confederation, the Indian Act, treaties between Indigenous nations and the Crown, and the residential school system, and their impact.
- Factors in the creation of the Dominion
- Legal status and Indigenous peoples
- Legal status and settler groups
- Actions people took to improve their lives
- Key events and their significance
- Treaties, the Indian Act, and Indigenous peoples
- The residential school system
- Political and legal changes for other groups
- Social and economic changes
- Cooperation and conflict
- Significant individuals and groups
Unit 2: Canada, 1890-1914: A Changing Society
Similarities and differences between Canada in 1890-1914 and today, focusing on the experiences of, challenges facing, and actions taken by various groups and communities — including First Nations, Métis, and Inuit; and the significant people, issues, events, and developments of the period, including the residential school system, and their impact.
- Experiences then and now
- Challenges to Indigenous families and communities
- Challenges for other communities
- Actions people took to improve their lives
- Developments affecting Indigenous peoples
- Developments affecting other communities
- Political and legal changes
- Social and economic changes
- Cooperation and conflict
- Significant individuals and groups
Unit 3: Global Settlement: Patterns and Sustainability
The interrelationships between Earth's physical features and processes and human settlement patterns, and how the physical environment and sustainability may affect future settlement; and the patterns and trends in human settlement worldwide, and the ways human settlement affects the environment.
- How the environment shapes settlement
- Future physical processes and settlement
- Features of a sustainable community
- Global patterns in human settlement
- How the environment influences where settlements form
- Land-use issues and responses
- Current trends in human settlement
- How settlement affects the environment
- Practices for more sustainable settlements
- Analysing and constructing choropleth maps
Unit 4: Global Inequalities: Economic Development and Quality of Life
The interrelationships among factors that contribute to global inequalities in quality of life, and responses to these inequalities; and an understanding of the patterns and factors affecting economic development and quality of life in different regions, including quality-of-life indicators, economic sectors and systems, and the spatial distribution of wealth.
- Factors that shape quality of life
- Factors affecting economies and quality of life
- Programs to improve quality of life
- The role of media in quality of life
- Quality-of-life indicators
- Comparing quality of life across countries
- Scatter graphs for development
- Population pyramids
- Groups working to improve quality of life
- Types of economic systems
- Economic sectors and development
- Factors in economic development
- The spatial distribution of wealth
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