Grade 6 Social Studies Communities in Canada Past and Present BUNDLE

Included in this BUNDLE are:

My Immigrant Story

Coming to Canada

This is a great BUNDLE to purchase to use to teach the Communities in Canada: Past and Present section of the Social Studies Ontario curriculum.

My Immigrant Story

*NEW: Updated for Distance Learning*

I've updated this resource to suit the needs of Distance Learning and expanded this activity to be a project with a rubric included. The Original Description is below. Check it out!

This resource now includes:

*Teacher Notes (with a suggested message to students and tips for how to use this resource in your virtual classroom)

* Success Criteria

* Related Vocabulary

* 3 Pages of Interview Questions (you can choose how many you wish to assign to students)

* A Final Summary/Good Copy Page (available in 3 versions: blank with an editable text box, wide-lined, narrow-lined)

* A Modified Final Summary/Good Copy Page (to suit ELL and IEP learners)

* A Picture Map Outline (to add maps, photographs and other visuals)

* A Rubric (aligned with the Ontario Grade 6 Social Studies curriculum)

In addition, there are now 3 versions for you to use:

* PDF (suitable for printing)

* PowerPoint (great to use with an virtual classroom with editable text boxes)

* A link to a Google Slides version (to add to Google Classroom and have students fill out and submit back to you)

The Google Slides link can be found on the "How to Use My Immigrant Story" document.

This resource comes in a zip file. Simply download it, click the file to unzip and choose which version(s) you wish to use.

Original Description

This assignment was one of my favourite assignments to do with my kids all year because it taught me so much about their families and their background.

The assignment is structured as a take-home interview question sheet. Students are to interview someone in their family that came to Canada as an immigrant. If students do not wish to select someone in their family, they may research an immigrant story online (website provided).

I found it best to share their work in a community circle and choose 4-5 students to share a day.

I also found this assignment made it really easy to take anecdotal notes while students were presenting, and it made it super easy to personalize their report card comments!

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Coming to Canada

This is a great project/culminating task to do at the end of the unit, or as a check in mid unit. The students enjoy choosing their own groups to compare and researching images to help them to understand the past.

Many students choose to research a group related to their ethnicity.

It also makes for a great bulletin board display to show off the beautiful Venn diagrams at the end.

I hope you enjoy using these resources with your class!

Easy, eh?