Social Studies Grade Five

Unit 3: Interdependence

Unit Overview for Grades 1-5

Learning at each grade level is organized around four units of study.

Unit 1 Identity Unit 3 Interdependence

Unit 2 Heritage Unit 4 Decision Making

This curriculum uses a spiral model for organizing learning objectives. With this developmental model, concepts are introduced and developed within the context of a theme and at a level appropriate for the students in the classroom. The unit "Interdependence" is developed in the following way:

Unit Summary for Grade Five

In this unit students will learn about the resources, industries, agriculture, and economy of Canada and will begin to identify interdependent relationships when resources are used for industry and agriculture to meet human needs and wants.

Students will access a variety of informational materials, including maps and graphs, and will organize and share information and ideas in a variety of ways.

Major Concepts and Learning Objectives

Concepts

Interdependence

resources, industry, technology, conservation, agriculture, economy, entrepreneurship

Knowledge Objectives

Students will know that:

industries use resources in order to meet human needs and wants. (TL, PSVS)
conservation is an important consideration. (PSVS, TL, CCT)
Canada produces a variety of agricultural products. (N, TL, PSVS)
Canada's economy is related to producing goods and services. (N, TL, PSVS)
industry, resources, agriculture, and economics are interdependent. (CCT, N, TL, PSVS)

Skills/Abilities Objectives

Students will:

access, organize, and share information and opinions. (C, IL, PSVS, CCT)
identify various resources and industries. (C, CCT, IL)
make connections among resources, industries, products, agriculture, the environment, and human needs and wants. (C, CCT, TL, N)

Attitudes/Values Objectives

Students will:

appreciate the complexity of some interdependent relationships. (CCT, PSVS, IL)
value the country's diverse resources and agricultural products. (N, TL, PSVS)

Citizen Action Objectives

Students may:

plan and participate in a drama in context. (C, CCT, PSVS)
recognize examples of entrepreneurial behaviour in the local community. (PSVS)

Suggestions for Integration

Language Arts:
Develop a theme such as "Meeting Needs and Wants in Canada" in the Inquiry context.
A continuation of the mini theme "Other Ways To Learn" within the Literary context could facilitate understandings about learning from videos, letters, fax, telephone, pamphlets, people, and computers.
Science:
Core Unit: Resources, Optional Unit: Machines and Work (industrial technology), Optional Unit: Oceans (fishing industry).
Develop mini themes such as "Agriculture in Canada" and "Forestry in Canada" in the Environmental context.
Student skills/abilities may be supported in all subjects.