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EN FRANÇAIS! PERFECT FOR FRENCH IMMERSION! Grade 8 – Ontario Geography Curriculum. This product was created to cover the expectations in the Ontario Geography Curriculum – Global Settlement: Patterns and Sustainability (Les Constantes et développement durable de l'établissement humain dans le monde) & Global Inequalities: Economic Development and Quality of Life (Les inégalités mondiales - la développenent économique et la qualité de vie)

There are 293 activity sheets that cover the expectations in the social studies - geography curriculum. This massive unit contains readings, maps, research assignments and a variety of fun activities - word searches, multiple choice, true/false, and more!

Most importantly, we have made cross-curriculum connections to the grade 8 language program. Students will practice reading comprehension strategies (making connections, summarizing, visualizing, inferencing, and questioning) as they work through this unit.

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Strand A: Global Settlement: Patterns and Sustainability

(Les Constantes et développement durable de l'établissement humain dans le monde)

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Settlement patterns – linear, scattered, and clustered
• Analyzing settlement patterns using pictures
• Research assignment – settlement patterns
• Population density – in Canada and globally around the world
• Calculating population densities
• Reading and creating choropleth maps representing population density
• Population distributions in Canada and globally
• Effects of climate on settlement patterns
• Climate zones – characteristics of zones
• Landforms/Physical features – how they affect settlement patterns
• Resource towns – gold rush, mining towns, forestry communities
• Ghost towns – Dawson City – gold rush
• Land claim disputes between indigenous groups and the government (Crown)
• Coastal GasLink Pipeline – Dispute between the Wet’suwet’en people and the Crown
• Far North Act – Dispute between Indigenous groups and the Crown
• Land use terms – residential, commercial, industrial, transportation, conservation, agriculture
• Land use issues – desertification, deforestation, land degradation
• Urban vs rural living – global trend of moving to urban areas
• Urban sprawl and how it affects the environment
• Pollution caused by settlements – air, land, noise, light, and water pollution
• Waste management – incinerating waste and landfills
• The 7 r’s – reduce, reuse, recycle, refuse, repair, regift, rot
• Land reclamation projects in Kobe, Japan
• Land reclamation projects in Canada – Alberta coal mine and Syncrude Reclamation
• Sustainable development solutions – green cities
• Rainwater harvesting – profile in Brazil
• Greywater systems – Reusing water
• Unit Test
• Answer pages for all activities

Strand B – Global Inequalities: Economic Development and Quality of Life

(Les inégalités mondiales - la développenent économique et la qualité de vie)

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Quality of life readings
• Researching quality of life indicators
• Infant mortality rates
• Introduction to scatter plots
• Reading scatter plots using different quality of life indicators (ex. infant mortality rate vs poverty rate)
• Creating scatter plots – GDP vs Unemployment and Literacy Rate vs Life Expectancy
• Human Development Index (HDI) rankings
• Comparing Norway (#1) vs Niger (ranked last) in quality of life indicators
• Comparing population pyramids – developed vs developing countries
• Creating population pyramids
• Developed vs developing countries
• Map activity – developed vs developing countries
• Research activity – comparing countries in terms of quality of life indicators
• Study of demography
• NGOs helping inequality issues around the world
• Child rights around the world – UNICEF and Global March Organization
• The Red Cross Organization
• Water for People Organization
• Research – Doctors Without Borders
• Evaluating the Media – How organizations use the media to spread their message
• Economic sectors – primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary
• Researching economic sectors in developed and developing countries
• Economic systems – traditional, command, market, mixed-market
• Researching economic systems in different countries and their development (HDI)
• Economic system – North Korea profile (command economy)
• Capitalism – Unequal distribution of wealth
• Wealth inequality – poverty
• Rural poverty vs urban wealth
• Trade balance – trade deficits and trade surplus of countries and comparing to their GDP per capita
• China - economy profile – from command economy towards a mixed market economy
• Corruption index rankings – levels of corruption in different governments/economies
• Unit Test
• Answer pages for all activities

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