Students are expected to know the following:
- demographic patterns of growth, decline, and movement
- relationships between cultural traits, use of physical space, and impacts on the environment
- relationship between First Peoples and the environment
- global agricultural practices
- industrialization, trade, and natural resource demands
- factors behind increased urbanization and its influence
on societies and environments - relationships between natural resources and patterns
of population settlement and economic development - political organization of geographic regions
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Curricular Competencies – Elaborations
Sample topics:
- Map skills:
- Use a map for navigation.
- Understand a map legend.
- Use map scales.
- Understand latitude and longitude.
- Understand topographic maps and contour lines.
- Mapping software and GIS tools
- Interpreting satellite images and photos
Sample activities:
- Research a contentious geographic issue by examining different sides of the issue, comparing the evidence, and reaching a conclusion.
The following are some possible issues to research:- buying local versus imported produce
- environmental impact of living in cities versus living in rural areas
- impact of climate change on northern regions versus equatorial regions
- Compare different versions of a world map and talk about what the differences mean (e.g., Mercator projection makes Africa and Greenland
look the same size even though they aren’t).
Key questions:
- What are some reasons that a company might move manufacturing of certain goods from one country to another?
- Is resource use and development always harmful to the landscape?
- How have our Canadian eating patterns changed over the last 100 years? Where did our food come from then? Where does it come from now? What do we eat now that we didn’t used to eat? Where does it come from?
Sample activities:
- Research a specific product (e.g., toothbrush, basketball, avocado). Where is it grown/sourced, manufactured and then sold?
- Find historical photos of the town you live in/were born in and compare them with how the town looks now. What changes happened and why?
Compare political systems in Canada with those in another country. What differences in values and beliefs might account for the very different ways countries govern themselves