Grade 6 Social Studies
12 units matched to the Manitoba Curriculum.
Learning focus
- Grade 6 Social Studies: Canada: A Country of Change (1867 to Present)
- Cluster 1: Building a Nation (1867 to 1914)
- Cluster 2: An Emerging Nation (1914 to 1945)
- Cluster 3: Shaping Contemporary Canada (1945 to Present)
- Cluster 4: Canada Today: Democracy, Diversity, and the Influence of the Past
Units
Unit 1
Confederation & Manitoba
Practises why Canada was formed in 1867, the British North America Act, which provinces joined and when, and the story of Red River, Louis Riel and Manitoba's entry into Confederation in 1870.
Learning outcome: 6-KC-001, 6-KH-027, 6-KH-027F, 6-KH-033, 6-KH-034, 6-KL-023 · Confederation, the British North America Act, and Manitoba's entry into Confederation
Unit 2
Treaties, Métis & the Mounties
Practises a first, respectful look at the numbered treaties and reserves, the Métis, the North West Mounted Police, the 1885 Resistance, and the Indigenous leaders of the time. This content needs review with First Nations, Métis and Inuit partners.
Learning outcome: 6-KI-007, 6-KH-028, 6-KH-029, 6-KH-032 · treaties and reserves, the 1885 Resistance, the North West Mounted Police, and Indigenous leaders from 1867 to 1914
Unit 3
Newcomers & Homesteads
Practises why Canada encouraged immigration to the West between 1890 and 1914, which groups came, the challenges newcomers met (including racism), daily life on a prairie homestead, and why farming mattered to Canada.
Learning outcome: 6-KI-008, 6-KI-009, 6-KI-010, 6-KI-011, 6-KE-055 · immigration to the prairies, homestead life, challenges for newcomers, and the importance of agriculture
Unit 4
Railway & Gold Rushes
Practises the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway, the people who built it, how it changed the West, and what the gold rushes meant for individuals and communities.
Learning outcome: 6-KH-030, 6-KH-031 · the gold rushes, and events and issues in the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway
Unit 5
First World War & Votes for Women
Practises the causes and events of the First World War, Canada's part in it, Remembrance Day, the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike, and the struggle for women's right to vote in Manitoba and Canada.
Learning outcome: 6-KC-003, 6-KH-035, 6-KH-036, 6-KH-037, 6-KG-039, 6-KG-040, 6-KP-046 · the First World War, the Winnipeg General Strike, and women's suffrage
Unit 6
Depression & Second World War
Practises the Great Depression and Dirty Thirties on the Prairies, new technology of the time, the causes and events of the Second World War, and Canada's part in it, including Indigenous service and Japanese Canadian internment. Framed factually and kindly.
Learning outcome: 6-KE-056, 6-KE-057, 6-KG-041, 6-KG-042, 6-KI-012 · the Great Depression, new technology, and the Second World War and Canada's part in it
Unit 7
Canada Since 1945
Practises Canada since the Second World War: the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, two official languages and multiculturalism, Franco-Manitoban history, Indigenous rights and reconciliation, Canada and the United Nations, and what shapes Canadian identity. Indigenous content needs review with partners.
Learning outcome: 6-KC-005, 6-KI-013, 6-KI-013F, 6-KI-014, 6-KI-015F, 6-KI-017, 6-KI-018, 6-KI-019, 6-KG-045, 6-KE-059 · rights and freedoms, bilingual and multicultural policies, Franco-Manitoban history, Indigenous rights, Canada and the UN, and Canadian identity
Unit 8
Government & Democracy
Practises the main features of Canada's government (parliamentary system and federalism), the responsibilities of municipal, provincial, First Nations and federal governments, how elections work, and ways citizens take part in democracy.
Learning outcome: 6-KC-004, 6-KP-049, 6-KP-051, 6-KP-052, 6-KP-053, 6-KP-053A · the features of Canada's government, levels of government, electoral processes and democratic ideals
Unit 9
Governments & Rights
Democracy, constitutional monarchy, dictatorship and other systems; how Canada's government works; and rights in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Canadian Charter.
Learning outcome: 6-KC-004, 6-KC-005 · democracy and the rights in the Canadian Charter
Unit 10
Canada in the World
What the UN, NATO, WHO, UNICEF, the Commonwealth and La Francophonie do, how NGOs differ from governments, peacekeeping, and why countries sign accords.
Learning outcome: 6-KG-045, 6-KG-047 · Canada's part in the United Nations and other world organizations
Unit 11
Map Skills
Reading latitude and longitude on a grid and in a table, telling which hemispheres a place is in, and knowing the continents, oceans and key lines like the equator and prime meridian.
Learning outcome: 6-S-205, 6-S-206, 6-S-207 · reading maps, and using latitude and longitude
Unit 12
Investigate It
Primary and secondary sources, fact versus opinion, perspective, reading thematic maps and drawing conclusions from evidence.
Learning outcome: 6-S-202, 6-S-304, 6-S-306 · primary and secondary sources, fact and opinion, and checking sources
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