Grade 6 Social Studies
7 units matched to the Newfoundland and Labrador Curriculum.
Learning focus
- Citizenship, power and governance. Students will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of the rights and responsibilities of citizenship and the origins, functions, and sources of power, authority, and governance.
- Culture and diversity. Students will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of culture, diversity, and world view, recognizing the similarities and differences reflected in various personal, cultural, racial, and ethnic perspectives.
- Individuals, societies and economic decisions. Students will be expected to demonstrate the ability to make responsible economic decisions as individuals and as members of society.
- Interdependence. Students will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of the interdependent relationship among individuals, societies, and the environment—locally, nationally, and globally—and the implications for a sustainable future.
- People, place and environment. Students will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of the interactions among people, places, and the environment.
- Time, continuity and change. Students will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of the past and how it affects the present and the future.
Units
Unit 1
How We Are Governed in Newfoundland and Labrador
Practises the three levels of government, the House of Assembly and MHAs, how a bill becomes a law, the rights and responsibilities of citizens, and the Indigenous governments of the province. Indigenous content is light and needs review by Indigenous partners.
Curriculum outcome: Citizenship, power and governance (by Grade 6) · how municipalities, the province and Indigenous governments make decisions in Newfoundland and Labrador
Unit 2
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.
Curriculum outcome: People, place and environment (by Grade 6) · reading maps to locate the Atlantic region and other places
Unit 3
Global Challenges
Poverty and inequality, global environmental problems, and how individuals, governments, NGOs and the UN work together, including the Montreal Protocol as a cooperation success story.
Curriculum outcome: Interdependence (by Grade 6) · local, regional and global economic patterns and issues
Unit 4
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.
Curriculum outcome: Citizenship, power and governance (by Grade 6) · how people shape political culture and influence decisions
Unit 5
Trade & Globalization
Imports and exports, market, command, traditional and mixed economies, supply and demand, tariffs and trade disputes, and the benefits and costs of globalization, presented from several points of view.
Curriculum outcome: Individuals, societies and economic decisions (by Grade 6) · trade and economic links with national and global communities
Unit 6
What Makes Canada, Canada?
Official languages, parliamentary democracy and the constitutional monarchy, multiculturalism, the Charter, built and physical features, and groups working for inclusion.
Curriculum outcome: Culture and diversity (by Grade 6) · contemporary cultures and their connections to other global cultures
Unit 7
Helping Around the World
How governments, NGOs and citizens respond to disasters and global issues, the Montreal Protocol and Paris Agreement, refugees, and a factual look at Canada's response to the MS St. Louis in 1939.
Curriculum outcome: Interdependence (by Grade 6) · how people are members of global communities
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