Global Issues and Governance - BC Grade 6 Reading & Activity Sheets Bundle

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Grade 6 – British Columbia (BC) Social Studies Curriculum – Global Issues and Governance. This product was created to cover the elaborations and big ideas in the British Columbia (BC) Social Studies Grade 6 Curriculum – Global Issues and Governance.

There are 374 activity sheets that cover the learning standards in the social studies curriculum. This unit contains readings, assignments, hands-on activities, fill in the blanks, multiple choice, true/false, and more!

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Some of the concepts that are covered:

• What is global settlement?
• Settlement patterns – linear, clustered, scattered
• Population density in Canada and around the world
• Urbanization – urban versus rural
• Pros and cons of living in the city
• Urban sprawl – effects on the environment and waste management
• Quality of life in different areas around the world
• Women’s quality of life
• Infant mortality rate
• Human development index – measurement of quality of life
• Developed versus developing countries
• Indian act – residential schools
• Paying for residential schools
• Residential schools – intergenerational trauma
• What is reconciliation?
• Discrimination – voting, gender, segregation
• Working class discrimination – by gender and child labour
• Segregation and the Jim Crow Laws
• Canada and the global community
• Canada’s top imports and exports
• NAFTA and USMCA – benefits and drawbacks
• Exchange rates – calculating exchanges
• Organizations for change – IGOs and NGOs
• The G20, United Nations, WTO, ICC, WHO
• Responding to global issues: climate change and the Paris Agreement
• Child labour – global response: ILO and UNICEF
• The WHO responding to the Coronavirus
• Military alliances: NATO, NORAD
• NGOs: Water for People Organization, Indigenous Resistance Against Carbon, Doctors without Borders
• Positions in the Canadian government and provincial government (BC)
• Lieutenant governor of BC
• Comparing governments: Canada versus USA (Republic)
• Structure of the government (3 branches: judicial, legislative, and executive branches)
• Impacts of mining and mining resource towns
• Clearcutting forests – effects on the environment
• Resource management policies – reforestation and other rules/policies protecting the environment
• Developing or protecting our cities/environment
• Sustainable or unsustainable actions made by governments
• Media bias – 6 forms
• Assignment – finding examples of media bias
• Propaganda – media bias during wars, confederation, and around suffrage
• Wars – World War I and World War II
• Genocide – Holocaust
• Terrorism – types and examples
• 4 Unit Tests
• Answer pages for all activities

This is a comprehensive unit that will save you hours of planning! It has been tested and found effective in helping students achieve the learning standards in the social studies curriculum.

BONUS! Older Reading Passages included!

Reading Comprehension Passages

Urbanization

• Urbanization Overview
• Population Density
• Waste Management
• Pollution (Land, Air, Water)
• Transportation and Transit

Minority Groups and Global Inequality

• Minority Groups in Canada
• Chinese Head Tax
• Japanese Internments
• Indigenous People (Residential Schools, The Indian Act)
• Caste System
• Unequal Distribution of Wealth
• Poverty

Organizations for Change (NGO's/IGO's)

• Organizations for Change - Fixing Inequalities
• Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO)
• Inter-Governmental Organizations (IGO)
• The United Nations (UN)
• The World Trade Organization (WTO)

Systems of Government

• Levels of Government (Federal, Provincial, Municipal)
• Election Process
• Political Parties
• Protest Movements
• Canadian Peaceful Protest Examples
• Roles/Positions in the Canadian Government
• Comparing Governments: USA Republic vs. Canadian Constitutional Monarchy
• Structure of Canadian Government: 3 Branches: Executive, Legislative, Judicial

Globalization

• Globalization Overview
• Canadian Imports and Exports
• Canada's Trading Partners
• NAFTA
• G20 and G20 Summit

Responses to Global Issues

• Responses to Climate Change
• The Paris Agreement
• Responses to Child Labour (International Labour Organization - ILO)
• Responses to Epidemics (Ebola Example)

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