Inquiry Units
Community Stories and Canadian Identity (Grades 4-6)
Use this comprehensive, ready-to-use, interactive digital resource package as you guide your students through an ongoing critical challenge exploring the overarching question: How can we most effectively communicate what it means to be Canadian?
This resource is part of the collection Inquiry Units.
Subject: Social Studies
Grade: 4, 5, 6
Type of resource: Units
Language: English
Unit overview
Download unit synopsisOverarching inquiry question
How can we most effectively communicate what it means to be Canadian?
Overarching critical challenge
Select symbolic artifacts for a Canada Collection designed to introduce essential aspects of our Canadian identity to intelligent life in outer space.
Big ideas
- Shared goals, values, attitudes and experiences form our collective Canadian identity.
- Stories of the past, told from different perspectives, continue to shape Canada today.
- The experiences of diverse communities in a challenging environment have contributed to a Canadian identity that is complex and ever-changing.
Unit launch
Line of inquiry #1: Exploring Canadian identity today
Line of inquiry #2: Linking past and present
Unit finale
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