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Nova Scotia · Grade 5

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

SS1Political landscape of Canada

Canada's federal government and First Nation band governance

SS2How we learn about the past

Primary sources and oral histories, with a focus on Acadians, African Nova Scotians, Gaels and Mi'kmaq

SS3Environment and an ancient society

How environment influenced the development of an ancient society

SS4First Nations and Inuit societies

Diverse First Nations and Inuit societies and their decision-making, in what later became Canada