Learning Outcomes at a Glance

Skills and Processes of Social Studies

• apply critical thinking skills - including comparing, imagining, inferring, identifying patterns, and summarizing - to selected problems and issues
• use maps and timelines to gather and represent information
• gather information from a variety of sources
• identify alternative perspectives on a selected historical event or topic
• formulate strategies to address problems or issues

Identity, Society, and Culture

• distinguish characteristic of various Aboriginal cultures in BC and Canada
• demonstrate knowledge of early European exploration of BC and Canada
• identify effects of early contact between Aboriginal societies and European explorers and settlers

Governance

• compare governance in Aboriginal cultures with governanace in early European settlements in BC and Canada
• identify the impact of Canadian governance on Aboriginal people's rights

Economy and Technology

• compare bartering and monetary systems of exchange
• describe technologies used by Aboriginal people in BC and Canada
• analyse factors that influenced early European exploration of North America
• describe technologies used in exploration, including:
  • transportation
  • navigation
  • food preservation
• describe economic and technological exchanges between explorers and Aboriginal people

Human and Physical Environment

• use maps and globes to locate
  • the world's hemispheres
  • the world's continents and oceans
  • Aboriginal groups studies
• identify the significance of selected place names in BC and Canada
• describe Aboriginal peoples' relationship with the land and natrual resources