Social Studies

Students acquire information about the history, geography, and the social sciences focusing on human interaction in societies past and present, near and far.

In Grade 5, students learn about the following four themes:

First Peoples

• origins, connections to the land, cultures and governance

• daily life and culture, natural resources, trade

• early European exploration

Early European Colonization (1600-1763)

• exploration, settlement, and colonization

• Nouvelle-France

• daily life and influence of the environment

• trade and conflict

Fur Trade

• life during the fur trade

• rise of the Métis and the Red River Colony

From British Colony to Confederation (1763 to 1867)

• early immigration; United Empire Loyalists

• Confederation

• sharing the land: relationships among Europeans, First Peoples and the Métis

• citizenship then and now