Learning Outcomes at a Glance

Skills and Processes of Social Studies

• use picture maps to identify familiar locations in the school or community
• participate cooperatively and productively in groups
• gather information from personal experience, oral sources, and visual representations
• present information using oral, written or visual representations
• identify strategies to address relevant school-based problems

Identity, Society, and Culture

• describe changes that occur in their lives
• explain how families can be similar and different in terms of characteristics such as composition, culture, traditions, and roles of various family members.
• identify a variety of social structures in which they live, learn, work, and play together
• identify symbols of Canada

Governance

• describe their roles, rights and responsibilities at home and at school
• explain the purpose of classroom and school expectations

Economy and Technology

• describe basic human needs
• identify types of work done by people in their community
• demonstrate awareness of the purpose of money
• describe ways they use technologies

Human and Physical Environment

• recognize maps of Canada
• identify characteristics of different environments
• demonstrate responsible behaviour in caring for their immediate and school environments