The Local Community – Grade 1 Social Studies Unit

**NEW UPDATE: Google Slides included for virtual learning**

This carefully constructed, well-balanced unit corresponds with the 2018 Ontario Grade 1 Social Studies Curriculum and covers the following overall expectations:

-Application: describe some aspects of the interrelationship between people and the natural and built features of their community, with a focus on how the features of and services in the community meet people’s needs

-Inquiry: use the social studies inquiry process to investigate some aspects of the interrelationship between people and different natural and built features of their local community, with a focus on significant short- and long-term effects of this interrelationship

-Understanding Context: describe significant aspects of their community, with reference to different areas, services, and natural and built features, demonstrating an understanding of some basic ways of describing location and measuring distance

This extensive resource contains everything you’ll need to teach the entire unit from beginning to end, including:

-detailed unit plans and engaging lesson plans

-creative printables and fun activities

-colourful, kid-friendly posters

-editable assessment tracking templates

-community building pictures & photographs

-an in-depth instructional strategies handbook

-culminating tasks (come with rubrics or checklists to make marking them a breeze!)

-Bonus: Google slides of all activity sheets, posters, assessments and student materials for distance learning

A detailed preview of this unit has been provided so you know what you’re getting before you buy it.

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