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The official Saskatchewan History 20: World Issues curriculum
Saskatchewan defines History 20: World Issues by strands and outcomes. MapleMind teaches the same curriculum reorganized for one-skill-at-a-time tutoring — the table shows exactly where every official strand lands, and the ministry's own wording is quoted under each unit below.
Official source Saskatchewan's official curriculumRead it on the government site — curriculum.gov.sk.ca ↗| Official strand | Outcomes | Where MapleMind teaches it |
|---|---|---|
| Strand U1 | 3 | Death of the Old Order |
| Strand U2 | 3 | The Totalitarian State |
| Strand U3 | 3 | National Sovereignty and Collective Security |
| Strand U4 | 3 | Self-Determination and the End of the Cold War |
| Strand U5 | 3 | Global Issues |
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How MapleMind teaches History 20: World Issues — every unit, lesson, and skill
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Unit 1Death of the Old OrderOfficial strand · Strand U1
World War I shattered the old world — trace how societies process cataclysmic change and why totalitarian answers found buyers.
Death of the Old Order: Foundations
- How societies adjust to changeHIST20-U1-K — The stages of adjusting to change, evolutionary vs revolutionary change, the interplay of social, economic, political and cultural domains, and the early-twentieth-century forces — including a world war — that shattered the traditional order.
- Research and analysis on the WWI eraHIST20-U1-S — The basic research skills — finding, classifying, weighing and summarizing information — and the analytical skills of defining parts, tracing cause and effect, and testing hypotheses, practised on the death of the old order.
- Debating rights, order, and wartime powerHIST20-U1-V — The value debates the era forces: external influence on national decisions, authoritarian versus democratic leadership, and the balance between individual rights and collective rights — including whether order ever outranks rights.
The official wording — 3 outcomes in this unit
- HIST20-U1-K
Know that the process of adjusting to change will vary from one
- HIST20-U1-S
Skills The student will: Learn and practise the basic research skills of:
- HIST20-U1-V
Whether a nation's decision-making processes should be influenced by external conditions such
Unit 2The Totalitarian StateOfficial strand · Strand U2
Instability breeds extremes — examine how totalitarian regimes rise, rule, and qualify every freedom.
The Totalitarian State: Foundations
- The anatomy of totalitarian ruleHIST20-U2-K — How economic and political instability feeds radical movements, how totalitarian and authoritarian regimes control citizens — compliant police, obedient bureaucracies, controlled communication, curtailed participation — and how political paradigms define individual versus collective rights.
- Classifying regimes with criteria and gridsHIST20-U2-S — Using the critical attributes of concepts and paradigms as classification criteria, organizing information with analytical grids, and practising decision-making and conflict-resolution on interwar cases.
- Debating sovereignty, security, and the state's reachHIST20-U2-V — Whether domestic politics drives foreign policy, whether national sovereignty and collective security can be reconciled, and where the line between the individual's domain and the state's belongs.
The official wording — 3 outcomes in this unit
- HIST20-U2-K
Knowledge Objectives The student will: Know that effective, collective security at the
- HIST20-U2-S
public. Skills/Abilities The student will: Learn and practise the basic research skills
- HIST20-U2-V
Learn and practise the skills of decision making and conflict resolution. Values
Unit 3National Sovereignty and Collective SecurityOfficial strand · Strand U3
Decolonization and alliances — nations weigh protection through unity against the price of pooled sovereignty.
National Sovereignty and Collective Security: Foundations
- Security, sovereignty, and alliancesHIST20-U3-K — Government's protective function, genocide as planned destruction of a people, spheres of strategic interest, and why nations both seek and fear collective-security organizations.
- Analysis and argumentation on sovereignty casesHIST20-U3-S — Analytical skills — parts, cause and effect, relations of parts to whole — plus hypothesis testing and supporting opinions with facts, sound argument and reasoning, applied to sovereignty and security cases.
- Debating intervention and national conductHIST20-U3-V — Whether civilian authority may yield to military authority, whether any nation may impose its values by intruding on another's sovereignty, and what criteria leaders owe their own and other peoples.
The official wording — 3 outcomes in this unit
- HIST20-U3-K
Knowledge Objectives The student will: Know that an essential and traditional function
- HIST20-U3-S
Skills The student will: • Learn and practise the following analytical skills:
- HIST20-U3-V
Value Issues The student will discuss: • Whether there are there situations/conditions
Unit 4Self-Determination and the End of the Cold WarOfficial strand · Strand U4
Two superpowers, finite resources, rival ideologies — the Cold War as a study in choices and stakes.
Self-Determination and the End of the Cold War: Foundations
- Superpower rivalry, scarcity, and self-determinationHIST20-U4-K — Scarcity and resource choices under superpower rivalry, distinct populations seeking control of decisions that shape their lives, violent and nonviolent paths to group agendas, and strategic spheres of influence.
- Synthesis and hypothesis-making on the Cold WarHIST20-U4-S — Synthesizing parts into a meaningful whole with a theme and effective presentation, defining and applying decision criteria, and making hypotheses from reasonable assumptions and inferences.
- Debating ends, means, and the nuclear ageHIST20-U4-V — Do ends justify means, do any causes justify violence, can diverse populations share one polity — and can a nuclear war be won, or even limited?
The official wording — 3 outcomes in this unit
- HIST20-U4-K
Knowledge Objectives The student will: Know that all nations must determine how
- HIST20-U4-S
Skills/Abilities The student will: Learn and practise to synthesize parts into a
- HIST20-U4-V
Values Issues The student will discuss: Should domestic considerations take precedence over
Unit 5Global IssuesOfficial strand · Strand U5
The post-Cold War world hands you the file: rights, force, nationalism, environment — global problems demanding global answers.
Global Issues: Foundations
- Global challenges and the paradigms behind responsesHIST20-U5-K — Why some issues are global by nature, how paradigms shape responses, human rights as entitlements of being human, the persistence of force, resurgent ethnic nationalism, and humanity's technological power over the environment.
- Applying the full inquiry toolkit to a global issueHIST20-U5-S — Selecting and applying problem solving, dialectical thinking, decision making and conflict resolution; stating well-grounded propositions; justifying decision criteria; and analyzing with grids.
- Debating rights, force, wealth, and the planetHIST20-U5-V — Whether rights belong to all humans as humans, whether violence is ever justified, the root causes of unequal wealth, and what criteria should govern technology and the earth's resources.
The official wording — 3 outcomes in this unit
- HIST20-U5-K
Know that some challenges or issues are global in nature because they
- HIST20-U5-S
Learn and practise using criteria as a basis for analyzing informatiorn. Learn
- HIST20-U5-V
Values Issues The student will discuss: Whether all persons are entitled to.certain
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Yes. MapleMind's AI tutor covers all 15 skills in Saskatchewan's History 20: World Issues — you pick the exact skill, and the tutor teaches it step by step: a short lesson, a worked example, solving together, then a skill check to show it stuck.
Is MapleMind aligned to Saskatchewan's official curriculum?
Yes. Every skill in this course maps to an official outcome code from Saskatchewan's Grade 11 Social Studies curriculum, and the ministry's own wording is quoted under each unit on this page — with the official government source linked so you can check it yourself.
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Where can I see the official Saskatchewan curriculum for History 20: World Issues?
The official source is linked on this page — Saskatchewan's official curriculum. The outline here follows it: every MapleMind skill carries its official outcome code, and the ministry's own wording is quoted under each unit.
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