Social Studies
Miss Berndl's Fantabulous
Fives
Grade 5 Units to be studied are:
| Term | Unit | Assignments | ||||||
| 1 | Global Awareness & Human Rights |
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| 2 | Early Civilizations |
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| 3 | Canadian Government |
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Texts - no one text is relied on solely as the class text
- Nelson World Atlas, 4th Edition
- Ancient Civilizations
- Our Country, Canada
The study of history is a difficult thing for young students since they such a limited sense of time and personal history themselves. For many grade fours it is a hard thing to understand that dinosaurs and the knights of the round table are not things that happened at the same time. For parents who are rediscovering their knowledge of history, an interesting site is:
World History International ~ World History from the Neolithic to the Present
Additional Sources of Information
 | Cultural Profiles Project http://www.settlement.org/cp/english/index.html Want to know more about different countries of the world as well as Canada? Then go to this site prepared by Citizenship and Immigration Canada. It profiles many countries that our Ancestors came from. | ||||||
| Mapping
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| Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto | ||||||
| Canadian Museum of Civilization, Ottawa | ||||||
| The Virtual Museum, cyberspace | ||||||
| The Canadian Canoe Museum, Peterborough | ||||||
| The Canadian Encyclopedia Online http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=HomePage&Params=A1 | ||||||
| Google Maps http://maps.google.com/ | ||||||
| Canada's Treasure Trek http://www.tvokids.com/framesets/play.html?game=9& |
