British Columbia · Grade 4

Social Studies

First Peoples and European contact

Outline

Lessons for this subject are being written.

Below is how the official curriculum organizes it. Each strand will get full lessons like the ones in Grade 1 Mathematics.

Curriculum strands

BIBig Ideas

The pursuit of natural resources changed land, people and communities; First Peoples–European interactions brought conflict and cooperation; B.C. took a unique path to Confederation

CCCurricular Competencies

Inquiry and historical and geographical thinking: significance, evidence, continuity and change, cause and consequence, perspective, ethical judgment

CContent

Early contact, trade, cooperation and conflict; the fur trade; demographic changes in B.C.; colonization and Confederation; impacts of colonization on First Peoples; Canada's physiographic features