Social Studies Grades K-4

This site encourages you to engage in the process of setting up a pioneer camp site.

Bebe and Mo visit a Pioneer Village where tour guide Blythe shows what life was like for Canada's early settlers, while Gavin takes the reins of a horse-drawn covered wagon.

This is an activity to help you interview someone in your family about their past. You will find ideas for questions and a chart to help you keep track and display answers.

Explore many fun types of jobs that you might like to have when you grow up!

Captivate your early learners with these 15 free nonfiction read-along books about the jobs people do.

Match each of the occupations with the tools of their job.

Children should complete the preparation exercise for each video to help them learn new vocabulary that they'll hear as they watch.

Help Firefighter Fran get dressed for an emergency call.

On this page, you'll find four videos about different jobs you can have when you grow up. There is also the "Amazing Dream Job Adventure" game to play.

Learn about the types of communities that you are part of.

Lessons, activities, and projects for students to use to explore the concepts of home, school, and community. If you click the links, there is a sign-in prompt -- but you can bypass the sign-in by clicking the image instead and you will be able to access all the Google slides associated with that image

Read this book about community and all of the places that you can go. Where else do you go in your town? (You can listen to the book by clicking English beside the small speaker icon.)

Learn about the three types of communities that people live in.

Visit 5 different families in Canada and learn what kinds of food they eat for dinner

A 2.5 minute animated video from CBC Kids News that explains what the word Indigenous means and how we use it.

Meet Calissa! She and her family are very close. She lives in the same house as her Grandparents and is homeschooled by her Bepa every day.

Meet Dalia! Her parents got divorced, but for the last year they've all been living together. Her parents aren't back together but their family is spending lots of time together, which makes Dalia happy.

Meet Jasmina! This 13 year old and her family are Deaf and communicate by speaking ASL (American Sign Language).

In this video, you'll learn about what things are in a community and what communities you belong to.

Lessons, activities, and resources for students to explore how community changes over time. If you click the links, there is a sign-in prompt -- but you can bypass the sign-in by clicking the image instead and you will be able to access all the Google slides associated with that image

Meet Nasir! He's the youngest in his family, but his big brothers always have time to hang out. Come on over and shoot some hoops with this 9 year old and stay for delicious Ghanaian treats.

Meet Nyal! 12 year old Nyal's family always seems to be on the move, from piano practice to dance classes to swimming lessons. But no matter how busy they are they always have time for each other.

Meet Peyton! He loves to have FUN with his mom, dad and two little sisters. Being the oldest can be hard sometimes but he also likes to help them out by making them snacks and pushing them on his backyard swing!

A lesson plan for early elementary students from the Rupertsland Institute that explores Métis ideas of identity and community

Meet Shahbaz! This 9 year old's family keeps getting bigger. It used to be just him and his parents but now he has more playmates!

This is My Family is a series about children with special needs and their siblings. This 2 minute episode is about Julia and her sister Audrey who has a feeding tube.

This is My Family is a series about children with special needs and their siblings. This 2 minute episode is about Kate and her brother Zachary who has Cerebral Palsy.

Meet Tyrion! At her house there aren't many kids nearby to play with but she always has fun. Join her as she dances up a storm in her old farmhouse with her two dads and three dogs.

A 2.5 minute animated video from CBC Kids News that explains what the word Indigenous means and how we use it.