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Nova Scotia · Grade 2

Social Studies

Nova Scotia's P-6 social studies is organized as a short list of outcomes for each grade rather than named strands; each outcome is shown here as a strand.

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

SS1Needs and wants

The difference between needs and wants

SS2Change in the community

Reasons why change occurs

SS3Contributions to change

How individuals and groups, including Acadians, African Nova Scotians, Gaels and Mi'kmaq, have contributed to change

SS4Decisions as consumers

How decisions are made as consumers