Curricular Fit

This site is intended for use in Elementary Cycles 2 & 3 Social Sciences.

Activities are designed to help the students develop the three competencies and are aligned to the learning processes in the Geography, History and Citizenship Education program.

Broad Area of Learning

Citizenship and Community Life

Cross-Curricular Competencies

While all nine cross-curricular competencies may be mobilized thoughout the process, the activities have been designed to help students develop the following cross-curricular competencies:

• To use information
• To solve problems
• To cooperate with others

Subject-specific Competencies

Social Sciences - Geography, History and Citizenship Education

Competency 1 - To understand the organization of a society in its territory
Competency 2 - To interpret change in a society and its territory
Competency 3 - To be open to the diversity of societies and their territories

Program content for History, Geography and Citizenship Education:

The history of the Loyalists acts as a bridge between the Cycle 2 and Cycle 3 content. It provides a link to the Thirteen Colonies and reflects changes in Canadian society between1745-1820.

Essential Knowledges Associated to the Competencies

Click to download documents in PDF format

• Cycle 2 Content Chart
• Cycle 3 Content Chart

Social Sciences Learning Process:

Learning about a problem

• Defining the problem
• Drawing on previous learnings
• Considering research strategies that will lead to a solution

Asking questions

• Spontaneously framing questions
• Organizing questions in categories
• Selecting useful questions

Planning research

• Making a research plan
• Locating sources of information
• Choosing or creating data-gathering tools

Gathering and processing information

• Collecting data
• Sorting data into categories
• Distinguishing between facts and opinions
• Criticizing data
• Distinguishing between relevant and irrelevant documents
• Comparing data

Organizing information

• Choosing a way to communicate information
• Making a plan
• Identifying the essential elements of information
• Arranging data in tables, lists, graphs or text
• Using supporting documents
• Indicating sources

Communicating the results of research

• Choosing appropriate language
• Presenting a production
• Using various supporting materials

Skills and Techniques for Geography:

Map - seigneuries/ townships locate - Aerial photographs | local photos

Map of routes to Canada, water routes

• Reading maps
• Interpreting maps
• Using spatial reference points
• Using a wind rose
• Orienting a map
• Locating a place on a map, on a globe of the world, in an atlas
• Finding geographic information in a document
• Interpreting illustrated documents (illustrations, sketches, posters, etc.)
• Using an atlas
• Interpreting climate charts

Skills and Techniques for History:

Timelines of routes to Canada

• Constructing a time line (meaning, scale)
• Reading a time line (meaning, scale)
• Using chronological reference points (month, season, year, decade, century, millennium)
• Calculating duration
• Decoding illustrated documents (murals, paintings, posters, etc.)
• Interpreting illustrated documents
• Finding historical information in a document
• Using an atlas