Updated for 2025-26: students must learn about the Holocaust and genocide, the destruction of Hogan's Alley, and the internment of Japanese Canadians, with expanded learning on residential schools.
Below is how the official curriculum organizes it. Each strand will get full lessons like the ones in Grade 1 Mathematics.
Inquiry and historical and geographical thinking: significance, evidence, continuity and change, cause and consequence, perspective, ethical judgment
Government and political institutions; Canadian autonomy and identity; discriminatory policies and injustices, incl. residential schools; the Holocaust and genocide; human rights; conflicts