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 ways the 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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