Yukon · Grade 10

Social Studies 10: Canada and the World 1914 to Present

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. In Yukon, Social Studies 10 includes the mandatory unit "Our Stories of Residential Schools in Yukon and Canada".

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

CCCurricular Competencies

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

CContent

Government and political institutions; Canadian autonomy and identity; discriminatory policies and injustices, incl. residential schools; the Holocaust and genocide; human rights; conflicts