This week in Social Studies!

We will be looking at Canada`s Trading Partners. This particular website provides both teachers, parents and students access to information about the major importing and exporting partners of Canada. It allows you to navigate yourself and students to search for information that pertains to a particular country and what they may be importing to or exporting from Canada.  

Teachers can refer students to this site to find out information and use it in a presentation or report.

In grade 6 students will identify and describe Canada’s economic, political, social, and physical links with the United States and other regions of the world; use a variety of resources and tools to gather, process, and communicate information about the domestic and international effects of Canada’s links with the United States and other areas of the world; and explain the relevance to Canada of current global issues and influences.  If you look in the Curriculum Standards for the Science and Technology Curriculum for Grade 6 you will see that this activity will be covering these specific expectations:

• identify the countries from which Canada imports goods (e.g., the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, Germany, other European countries, Taiwan, South Korea, Mexico)

• identify some important international organizations/agreements in which Canada participates and describe their purpose (e.g., the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, the North American Free Trade Agreement, the World Health Organization, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the Commonwealth of Nations, Francophonie, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation [APEC] association)

 

Curriculum expectations can be found here