cc_Social Studies_Grade 5_Use Social Studies inquiry processes and skills to — ask questions; gather, interpret, and analyze ideas; and communicate findings and decisions

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Subject
Social Studies
Grade
Grade 5
Curricular Competency
Use Social Studies inquiry processes and skills to — ask questions; gather, interpret, and analyze ideas; and communicate findings and decisions
Elaboration
  • Key skills:
    • State a hypothesis about a selected problem or issue
    • Use inference, imagination, and pattern identification to clarify and define a problem or issue
    • Compare a range of points of view on an issue
    • Summarize information and viewpoints about a problem or issue
    • Use latitude, longitude, and intermediate directions to locate major geographic features in BC and Canada
    • Describe a selected place in Canada using both absolute and relative location
    • Use keys and legends to interpret maps (e.g., resources, economic activities, transportation routes, capital cities, population)
    • Recognize that different types of maps represent particular types of information (e.g., thematic maps show information such as resource distribution; topographic maps show elevation; political maps show provincial boundaries)
    • Create maps to represent aspects of a specific place (e.g., economic activity, landforms, and bodies of water), applying keys and legends
    • Create and interpret timelines and maps to show the development of political boundaries in Canada (e.g., each province’s entry into Confederation, creation of Nunavut)
    • Retell a story from an interview (e.g., residential school student, new Canadian, war veteran, Elder)
    • Apply established criteria to compare information sources (e.g., relevance, accuracy, authorship)
    • Apply a variety of strategies to record information gathered from sources
    • Create a bibliography of all sources used
    • Use an outline to organize information into a coherent format
    • Create a presentation using more than one form of representation (e.g., poster and oral report)
    • Select ways to clarify a specific problem or issue (e.g., discussion, debate, research, reflection)
    • Identify opportunities for civic participation at the school, community, provincial, and national levels
    • Individually, or in groups, implement a plan of action to address a problem or issue (e.g., fundraising campaign, clothing or food drive, letter writing to a politician, editorial in school or community newspaper, petition)
keywords
Use Social Studies inquiry processes and skills to — ask questions; gather, interpret, and analyze ideas; and communicate findings and decisions