social studies

Social Studies 7

• Topic A - Culture
  Students will develop an understanding of culture. Our culture exerts a great deal of influence on the way we think, feel and communicate. Students will also study their own immediate environments of home, school and community.
• Topic B - Cultural Transition: A Case Study of Japan
  Students will focus on developing positive attitudes toward cultural transition as students examine changes in Japanese culture in the past century. The model developed in Topic A will be applied to Japan. The idea that cultural transition is continuous and occurs as a result of influences that bring about change within the culture will also be taught to students.
• Topic C - Canada: A Bilingual and Multicultural Country
  Students will develop an understanding of the bilingual and multicultural nature of Canada. The unit applies the model of a culture developed in Topic A to selected Canadian cultural groups.

Social Studies 8

• Topic A - Geography of Canada and the United States
  Students will develop an understanding of the relationship of geography to patterns of life in Canada and the United States. The geography of the two countries will be analyzed. As well, the major geographic concepts of location, place, movement and relationship between people and the environment will be studied through the fifth concept: regions.
• Topic B - Canada: History to the Twentieth Century
  Students will develop a greater understanding of Canada by exploring the development of Canada as a country. A broad chronological overview of Canadian History will also be examined in this unit.
• Topic C - South America: A case Study of Brazil
  The intent of this unit is to help students extend their understanding of geography. This is the opportunity to develop some basic world geographic knowledge through regional studies. Studying the historical development of Brazil is related to its physical geography as well as to the cultural roots of its people follows this.

Social Studies 9

• Unit 1 - Economic Growth: United States of America
  Students will study some important influences upon industrialization in the United States. Students will examine the role of governments, labour and the market economy on the lives of the individual.
• Unit 2 - Economic Growth: The former USSR  
  Students will study how geography and history had their influence on the industrial development of the former Soviet Union. Students will evaluate the effects of a centrally planned economy upon its participating members.
• Unit 3 - Canada: Responding To Changes
  Students will examine how technology affects our quality of life and the way people work. Also studied will be government intervention into the private sector, and its impact. As well, students will observe the relationship between geography and its impact upon Canadian industrialization.

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