Social Studies, Grade 4

Unit 1: Mapping and Canadian Regions

Building geographic literacy: using and interpreting maps, and locating Canada's major regions, provinces, and territories.

• The parts of a map
• Canada's regions, provinces, and territories

Unit 2: Exploration

Evaluating the impact of exploration over time: what motivates exploration, the experiences and perspectives of both explorers and the peoples already living on the land, and exploration's positive and negative consequences.

• What motivates exploration

• Positive and negative consequences of exploration
• Lands were already home to people

Unit 3: Humans and the Physical Environment

Analysing the relationship between humans and the physical environment in Canada: how people adapt to the land, how the physical landscape shapes how Canadians live, human impacts on the environment, and Indigenous perspectives on caring for the land.

• How the physical landscape shapes how Canadians live
• How human actions change the environment
• Indigenous perspectives on caring for the land