CANADA’S INTERACTIONS WITH GLOBAL COMMUNITY - Ontario Social Studies - Grade 6

UPDATED 2023 NEW Curriculum - Grade 6 – Ontario Social Studies Curriculum – Canada’s Interactions with the Global Community. This product was created to cover the expectations in the Ontario Social Studies Grade 6 curriculum – Strand B: Canada’s Interactions with the Global Community.

There are 147 activity sheets that cover the expectations in the NEW social studies curriculum. This massive unit contains readings, maps, blog posts, newspaper articles and a variety of fun activities - word searches, word scrambles, drawings, multiple choice, true/false, and more!

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• What is the global community
• Canada’s trading partners
• Imports and exports
• Canada’s top imports and exports
• Free trade and tariffs
• NAFTA – free trade relationship with Mexico and the USA
• USMCA – Replacing NAFTA
• Mapping Canada’s trading partners
• Latitude and longitude
• The latitude and longitude of Canada’s trading partners
• Proximity of Canada’s trading partners – Great Lakes region
• Drawbacks of international trade – loss of manufacturing jobs, invasive species (zebra mussels)
• Intergovernmental organizations (IGOs)
• G20, United Nations, International Criminal Court (ICC), International Labour Organization (ILO), WHO
• The WHOs response to the COVID-19 pandemic
• Other epidemics – Zika and Ebola
• Climate change – global response
• Newspaper article – Canada joins the Kyoto Accord in 1998
• Newspaper assignment – write an article about why Canada withdrew from the Kyoto Accord
• Canada working with other countries – Paris Agreement
• Military alliances – pros and cons
• NATO and NORAD alliances
• Peacekeeping operations in Afghanistan
• NGOs – how they operate and who they help
• Ryan’s Well, Doctors Without Borders, World Vision and more
• Earthquake in Haiti Relief – Canadian government response and Canada Red Cross
• Assignments – Researching NGOs and IGOs
• Genocide – the Holocaust
• Escaping the Holocaust – Canada’s reaction
• “None is too many” – stance Canada had on immigration
• The MS St. Louis – rejecting Jewish passengers
• The Evian Conference – failure to help Jewish refugees
• Canada’s commitment to human rights – Universal Human Rights document
• Changing the criminal code in Canada – making it against the law to promote hate/genocide
• Canada accepts over 60,000 Vietnamese refugees – Vietnam War
• Canada stands up against South Africa in the Apartheid boycott
• Blog post – understanding Bill C-19: Making it illegal to deny the Holocaust happened
• Answer pages for all activities
• Unit Test

This is a comprehensive unit that will save you hours of planning! It has been tested and found effective in helping students achieve the learning goals in the NEW social studies curriculum.

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