British Columbia · Grade 3

Social Studies

Global Indigenous peoples

Outline

Lessons for this subject are being written.

Below is how the official curriculum organizes it. Each strand will get full lessons like the ones in Grade 1 Mathematics.

Curriculum strands

BIBig Ideas

Learning about Indigenous peoples nurtures respect; Indigenous knowledge is passed down through oral history and tradition; Indigenous societies value well-being of self, land, spirits and ancestors

CCCurricular Competencies

Inquiry and historical and geographical thinking: significance, evidence, continuity and change, cause and consequence, perspective, ethical judgment

CContent

Cultural characteristics and ways of life of local First Peoples and global Indigenous peoples; oral history and artifacts as evidence; governance; relationships with the environment