GLOSSARY
TEACHER'S CORNER
INDEX
GRADE 10
ACTIVITY 1
ACTIVITY 2
GRADE 11
ACTIVITY 1
ACTIVITY 2
GRADE 12
ACTIVITY 1
ACTIVITY 2
UNIVERSITY
PROJECTS
ACTIVITY 1
ACTIVITY 2
SITE CONTENTS
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Demonstrate appropriate research skills, including the ability to:
- Develop pertinent questions about a topic, issue or situation
- Collect original data
- Use a range of research tools and resources.
- Compile and document task-specific information from a wide variety of print and electronic sources.
- Present and interpret data in graphic form.
- Evaluate and interpret data for accuracy, reliability, bias, and point of view
- Understand the nature of and appropriate uses for primary and secondary sources.
Plan, revise, and deliver formal presentations that integrate a variety of media.
Demonstrate leadership by planning. implementing, and assessing a variety of strategies to address the problem, issue, or inquiry.
Demonstrate the ways arts mirror and shape Canadian society.
Identify and use approaches from the social sciences and humanities to examine Canada and the world.
Communicate effectively in written and spoken language or other forms of expression, as appropriate to the social sciences.
Gather relevant information from appropriate sources.
Assess the reliability, currency and objectivity of evidence.
Develop and express appropriate responses to issues or problems.
Assess the influence of mass media on public opinion.
Identify elements that contribute to the regional, cultural and ethnic diversity of Canadian society.
Identify the contributions of the arts in shaping Canadian identity.
Explain the environmental impact of economic activity, population growth, urbanization and standard of living.
Apply the following themes of geography relevant issues.
- Location (a position on the earth's surface)
- Place(the physical and human characteristics that make a location unique)
- Movement (the varied patterns in the movement of life forms, ideas and materials)
- Regions (basic units of study that define an area with certain human and physical characteristics.)
- Human and physical human interaction (the way humans depend on, adapt to, and modify the environment)
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