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British Columbia · Grade 8

Social Studies

7th century to 1750

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

Contact and conflict caused cultural, social and political change; human and environmental factors shaped population; exploration and colonization had varying consequences

CCCurricular Competencies

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

CContent

Social, political and economic systems, including one Indigenous civilization; science and technology; philosophical and cultural shifts; exploration, expansion and colonization