Yukon · Grade 5

Social Studies

Canadian issues and governance

In Yukon, Social Studies 5 includes Yukon First Nations governance and Yukon First Nations citizenship.

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

Canadian policies toward minority peoples have negative and positive legacies; natural resources shape regional economies; immigration and multiculturalism shape Canadian society

CCCurricular Competencies

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

CContent

Canadian identity; immigration; past discriminatory policies (Head Tax, Komagata Maru, residential schools); human rights; levels of government; resources and First Peoples land use