Social Studies: Human Rights
Big Idea (6): Systems of government vary in their respect for human rights and freedoms.
Big Idea (5): Canada’s policies and treatment of minority peoples have negative and positive legacies
Content (6): global poverty and inequality issues, including class structure and gender
Content (5): past discriminatory government policies and actions, such as the Head Tax, the Komagata Maru incident, residential schools, and internments
Content (5): human rights and responses to discrimination in Canadian society
Curricular Competency (5+6): Develop a plan of action to address a selected problem or issue
Curricular Competency (5+6): Sequence objects, images, and events, and recognize the positive and negative aspects of continuities and changes in the past and present (continuity and change)
Curricular Competency (5+6): Make ethical judgments about events, decisions, or actions that consider the conditions of a particular time and place, and assess appropriate ways to respond (ethical judgment)
Curricular Competency (5+6): Ask questions, corroborate inferences, and draw conclusions about the content and origins of a variety of sources, including mass media (evidence)
Core Competencies: Critical thinking, creative thinking, communication
First Peoples Principles of Learning: Learning ultimately supports the well-being of the self, the family, the community, the land, the spirits, and the ancestors