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Nova Scotia · Grade 4

Social Studies

Nova Scotia's P-6 social studies is organized as a short list of outcomes for each grade rather than named strands; each outcome is shown here as a strand.

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

SS1Rights and responsibilities

Rights and responsibilities of citizens in a democracy

SS2Exploration

The concept of exploration and stories of explorers from many cultures, and its impacts

SS3Humans and the physical environment

How the physical environment affects how we live

SS4Physical landscape of Canada

How Canada's physical landscape varies across the country