Social Studies Grade Six
Unit 4: Interdependence
Suggested Time Frame: 10 weeks
Social Studies Objectives
Students will gain the following understandings:
- Interdependence involves a sharing relationship.
- Global interdependence may or may not act to the advantage of the countries
involved.
- Decisions regarding interdependent relationships involve a variety of complex
factors.
- Interdependence involves both rights and responsibilities.
Students will develop and/or practise the following skills and abilities:
- Locate and gather information from a variety of sources.
- Organize and present ideas and information.
- Link interdependent systems with the help of maps, graphs, charts and tables.
- Relate current events to the concepts under study.
- Participate in a variety of group activities
.
Students will demonstrate behaviour that reflects the following values:
- An appreciation for the importance of co-operative relationships.
- An understanding of the diversity of roles that various countries and people
play in interdependent relationships.
- A commitment to understand and help deal with global issues.
Foundational Objectives
- Enable students to think for themselves as they examine various sides of
an issue by role-playing simulations (
CCT).
- Explore social and economic inequities and their effects on peoples of the
world (PSVS).
- Construct clear, achievable goals and plan to meet them (IL).
- Develop an understanding that technology both shapes and is shaped by society
(TL).
The Common Essential Learnings are abbreviated in the following way:
C Communication
N Numeracy
CCT Critical and Creative Thinking
TL Technological Literacy
PSVS Personal and Social Values and
Skills
IL Independent Learning