Grade 1 - (2025-)

Organizing Idea: Time and Place: Exploring the dynamic relationships between people, place, and time supports understanding of perspectives and events to make meaning of the world.

Organizing Idea: Systems: Evaluating processes and structures of organizations builds understanding of decision making in the world.

Organizing Idea: Citizenship: Understanding local, national, and global issues empowers individual and collective action toward an inclusive society.

Learning Outcome: Students examine major physical features and key landmarks of our world.

Learning Outcome: Students explore cultures of diverse communities.

Learning Outcome: Students examine the exchange of goods and services.

Learning Outcome: Students investigate roles and responsibilities in community groups and organizations.

Learning Outcome: Students examine how belonging is supported within groups and communities.

Knowledge

Understanding

Skills & Procedures

Knowledge

Understanding

Skills & Procedures

Knowledge

Understanding

Skills & Procedures

Knowledge

Understanding

Skills & Procedures

Knowledge

Understanding

Skills & Procedures

Communities can have natural features, including

Communities can have constructed landmarks, including

Landmarks are identifiable structures or features of a place that can be natural or constructed by humans.

The names of some natural landmarks are passed on through First Nations, Métis, and Inuit languages and oral traditions, for example, Okotoks Big Rock or Okatok in Blackfoot.

Natural features and landmarks can hold significance.

Brainstorm criteria to distinguish between natural features and constructed landmarks.

Share reasons why a local natural feature or constructed landmark holds personal significance.

Recognize landmarks in the local community.

Identify natural landmarks that have First Nations, Métis, or Inuit names.

Culture can be expressed by an individual or a community as cultural celebrations and traditions.

People can learn about one another by sharing information about cultures, traditions, and histories (origins).

A community can be made up of diverse cultures.

First Nations communities, Métis communities, and Inuit communities in Canada have diverse cultures.

Connection to the land is shared across diverse cultures in First Nations, Métis, and Inuit communities.

Learning about cultures can build appreciation of diverse communities (intercultural understanding).

Describe expressions of culture in the local community.

Describe expressions of culture in a Francophone community.

Share a personal expression of culture.

Discuss how First Nations, Métis, and Inuit communities express culture.

Goods such as food, clothing, and furniture are items that meet needs and wants.

Services are actions that help others to meet needs and wants, for example,

Sharing is giving without expecting something in return.

Trade, including bartering, buying, and selling, is the exchange of goods or services between people and communities.

Goods and services can be shared or exchanged.

Using and exchanging goods, services, and natural resources can meet needs and wants.

Differentiate between goods and services.

Compare various ways of exchanging goods and services.

People can help community groups and organizations work toward common goals by taking on leader and helper roles.

Roles can have unique responsibilities, for example,

Roles and responsibilities support participation and achievement of community goals.

Differentiate between the roles and responsibilities of leaders and helpers.

Relate fulfillment of roles and responsibilities to achievement of community goals.

People can build positive relationships within groups and communities in various ways, for example,

Relationships and shared experiences within groups and communities can help members develop a sense of belonging.

Canada has official symbols that can contribute to a sense of belonging, including

People can demonstrate that they feel a sense of belonging in Canada by following traditions such as singing “O Canada” and displaying the Canadian flag.

Belonging develops from being part of groups and communities.

Brainstorm characteristics of groups and communities.

Differentiate between Canada's official symbols.

Describe characteristics and experiences that contribute to a sense of identity within a personal community.

Model ways to demonstrate belonging to Canada.

mountains

forests

prairies

rivers

lakes

buildings

parks

roads

pathways

bridges

repairing clothing or objects

collecting and managing waste and recyclables

providing health care

contributing ideas

listening to others

participating in activities

following rules

acting with fairness

cooperating with others

showing respect

being curious

celebrating cultural events

learning about other people and places

building connections across cultures

collaborating

the Canadian flag

Canada’s national colours, red and white

the Canadian coat of arms

the maple leaf

the maple tree

Canada’s national sports, lacrosse and ice hockey