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Social Studies- Grade Three

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FIRST TERM

PEOPLE AND ENVIRONMENTS: LIVING AND WORKING IN ONTARIO


Application: demonstrate an understanding of some key aspects of the interrelationship between the natural environment, land use, employment opportunities, and the development of municipal regions in Ontario (FOCUS ON: Interrelationships; Patterns and Trends)

Inquiry: use the social studies inquiry process to investigate some of the environmental effects of different types of land and/or resource use in two or more Ontario municipal regions, as well as some of the measures taken to reduce the negative impact of that use (FOCUS ON: Cause and Consequence; Perspective)

Understanding Context: describe major land form regions and types of land use in Ontario and some of the ways in which land use in various Ontario municipalities addresses human needs and wants, including the need for jobs (FOCUS ON: Significance)



SECOND TERM
HERITAGE AND IDENTITY: COMMUNITIES IN CANADA, 1780–1850

Application: compare ways of life among some specific groups in Canada around the beginning of the nineteenth century, and describe some of the changes between that era and the present day (FOCUS ON: Continuity and Change; Perspective)

Inquiry: use the social studies inquiry process to investigate some of the major challenges that different groups and communities faced in Canada from around 1780 to 1850, and key measures taken to address these challenges (FOCUS ON: Significance; Cause and Consequence)

Understanding Context: identify some of the communities in Canada around the beginning of the nineteenth century, and describe their relationships to the land and to each other (FOCUS ON: Interrelationships)




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Social Studies Links

Living and Working on Ontario

Information about Ontario 
Ontario tourism
site
Historical Ontario tourism video
Welcome to Ontario video clip
TRCA--The Living City TV
What is a Map? (choose Maps)
http://www.tvokids.com/shows/mycanada
Maps of Ontario:  http://www.ontario-canada-travel.com/map-of-ontario.html#.Uj-3eCZzbcs

http://geology.com/canada/ontario.shtml
Countryside Investigators
Ontario Watersheds

Canada's Physical Regions:  http://hrsbstaff.ednet.ns.ca/phillie/InternationalExchange/Canada/Physical%20Regions/Physical_Regions/
Learn about landforms

Ontario's Physical Regions:
Hudson Bay Lowlands: 

http://www.pc.gc.ca/docs/v-g/nation/sec4.aspx
http://www.ontario.ca/page/forest-regions
http://www.arctic.uoguelph.ca/cpe/environments/inland_water/hudson.htm

Canadian Shield:  
http://www.pc.gc.ca/docs/v-g/nation/sec3.aspx
http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/atlas/themes.aspx?id=canadianlandforms&sub=canadianlandforms_land_shield&lang=En
                            
Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Lowlands:  

http://www.pc.gc.ca/docs/v-g/nation/nation76.aspx
http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/atlas/themes.aspx?id=canadianlandforms&sub=canadianlandforms_land_lakes

Canadian Geographic Atlas for Kids

Fun facts about Ontario:  http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/kids/fun-facts/default.asp

Online Kids' Dictionary:  http://kids.wordsmyth.net/we/

List of Towns in Ontario:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_towns_in_Ontario

List of Cities in Ontario:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Ontario

Map of Cities and Towns in Ontario:  http://www.citypopulation.de/Canada-Ontario.html

List of Townships in Ontario:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_townships_in_Ontario

List of Villages in Ontario:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_villages_in_Ontario

Map of Ontario Counties:  http://www.mapsofworld.com/canada/provinces/ontario-county-map.html
Information on Ontario's Municipalities:  http://www.amo.on.ca/YLG
Information about Toronto's government

Video clip about natural resources
Video about natural resources
Quiz about natural resources

Find a
farm in Ontario 
Egg Farmers of Ontario
From Farm to Table

A fishing community:  Norfolk County
Map of Norfolk county

​Automotive Industry clip
Manufacturing in Ontario:
http://www.investinontario.com/en/Pages/OS_automotive.aspx

Oshawa GM Plant clip
Living in Oshawa:
http://www.oshawa.ca/eco_dev/bus_serv.asp
List of Automobile Assembly Plants in Southern Ontario

Did you know that
Rockets are made in Ontario?

World's Largest Salt Mine

http://www.thestar.com/news/2014/08/11/the_world_s_largest_salt_mine.html

Ontario Forestry Industry
Forests Ontario

Ports in Ontario

Ontario Mining Association
Information from Ontario Mining Association
career - mining
Jobs -
mining
Videos - mining

Perspectives on
Urban Spraw
A perspective on Urban Sprawl

Information about the Ontario Greenbelt

Where Should I Live in Ontario?
Living in the Niagara Region
A travel brochure from Bruce Peninsula

City Creator create your own community

Types of Communities A visual representation of an urban, suburban and rural community.



Communities in Canada, 1780-1850

Kahnawake Survival School Traditional Lacrosse Gameurvival School Traditional Lacrosse Game 2015

Homes of the Past: The Archaeology of an Iroquoian Longhouse

Canada Info:  Information about First Nations

The Kids' Site of Canadian Settlement

Eastern Woodland Farmers

Eastern Woodland Hunters

The Metis--A New Nation

Watch a clip:  What is a Metis?

Information About The Metis

Historical Maps of Canada

The Anishinabe Nation

Kid's Site of Canadian settlement build a longhouse, sodhouse, tipi

Four Directions Teaching (Learn about indigenous knowledge and philosophy from 5 diverse First Nations in Canada)

Crawford Lake:  Iroquoian Village

Crawford Lake:  Longhouse

Crawford Lake:  Life in the Longhouse

Crawford Lake:  The Discovery

Construction of the Deer Clan Longhouse

Government of Canada - Kids Stop

Early First Nations Tools Information

Tools Used by the Plains People

Early Days--The Homesteaders in Western Canada

Video clip about Red River Settlement

Video clip about The Selkirk Settlers--Multicultural Community

Video clip about The Selkirk Settlers--Wintering Camp

Loyalists

Slavery in Canada

video clip about the Underground Railroad

Underground Railroad

National Geographic Information about Underground Railroad

Digital Story:  Secrets and Codes of the Underground Railroad

Story about the Underground Railroad

Links to information about the Underground Railroad

​Pathway to Freedom

Information About Lower Canada

Lower Canada--from The Canadian Encyclopedia

Information About The Seigneurial System

clip about The Seigneurial System

L'agriculture en Nouvelle-France vers 1745--
clip is in French

Syndenham Discovery:  Choose your own adventure

Video on Life in Early Canada--Emily's Journey

Video on life in Early Canada--Jamie Really Liked to Eat

Video on life in Early Canada--Woolly's Gift

Video on life in Early Canada--The New Schoolhouse

Video on life in Early Canada--The New School Teacher

Video on life in Early Canada--Henry Settles in Upper Canada

Video on life in Early Canada--Homesteading on the Prairies

visit to the tinsmith's shop at Black Creek Pioneer Village

visit to the printer's shop at Black Creek Pioneer Village

More video
clips from Black Creek Pioneer Village

Life for early settler children from
Thunder Bay Museum

Daily Life in Upper Canada from TPL

Information from Black Creek Pioneer Village

Black Creek Pioneer Village Buildings

Pioneer Life in Upper Canada

Early settlers in Vaughan

Canadian Museum of History - Canada Hall

Upper Canada Village





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