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Yukon · Grade 6

Social Studies

Global issues and governance

Yukon First Nations ways of knowing, doing and being are integrated in this subject, using Yukon content and resources.

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

Economic self-interest can cause conflict; global problems need international cooperation; governments vary in respecting human rights; media can inform or distort

CCCurricular Competencies

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

CContent

Urbanization and migration; global poverty and inequality; governments, NGOs and Indigenous organizations; systems of government; globalization; international cooperation; media