1. TCSS Canada Content Map
Teachers: Grade/Subject: 6th Grade Unit: Canada Date Range:
Social Studies
Unit Essential Question: How do geographic, historical, government, Standard(s):
economic, and understandings influence Canada?
Concept 1: Concept 2: Concept 3: Concept 4:
Geography History Government/Civics Economics
Lesson Essential Questions: Lesson Essential Questions: Lesson Essential Questions: Lesson Essential Question
Location Conflict and Change Power, Authority, & Governance Production, Distribution, &
1. Where are the physical features of 6. How did Canada become an 8. How does the structure of the Consumption
Canada located? (SS6G5a.) independent nation? (SS6H4b.) national government of Canada 9. What is the economic system of
Human-Environment Interaction 7. Why does Quebec seek distinguish the role of its citizens? Canada? (SS6E1c.; SS6E2d.)
2. How do location, climate, and independence from Canada? (SS6CG3a.) (Compare Canada with Cuba and
natural resources affect people in (SS6H5a.) Brazil; Be sure to include that they
Canada? (SS6G6a-b) (where people are located on a continuum
live and work; access to water; impact between pure market and pure
on trade) command economies, and the
3. How have environmental issues system for exchanging currencies)
affected Canada? (SS6G7a) (acid rain 10. How does specialization
and pollution of Great Lakes; encourage trade between Canada
extraction and use of natural resources; and other countries? (SS6E2a.)
timber resources) 11. How do trade barriers affect
Culture Canada? (SS6E2b.) (tariffs,
4. How does the literacy rate affect the quotas, and embargos)
standard of living in Canada? 12. How does NAFTA play a role
5. How did the French and English in trade in Canada? (SS6E2c.)
influence the language and religion of 13. How has Canada been
Canada? (SS6H4a.) influenced by the presence or
absence of economic factors?
(SS6E3a-d)
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2. TCSS Canada Content Map
Vocabulary 1: Vocabulary 2: Vocabulary 3: Vocabulary 4:
Places Sovereign state Constitutional monarchy Pure market
St. Lawrence River Commonwealth of Nations Parliamentary democracy Pure command
Hudson Bay British Commonwealth Federation Mixed economy
Atlantic Ocean “Quiet Revolution” Personal freedoms Continuum
Pacific Ocean Voting Specialization
Great Lakes Prime minister Trade barriers
Canadian Shield Tariffs
Rocky Mountains Quotas
Terms Embargos
Permafrost Imports
Natural Resource Exports
Extraction Diversification
Timber North American Free Trade
Population distribution Agreement (NAFTA)
Air pollution Exchange
Acid Rain Currency
Wildlife Human capital (education/training)
Standard of Living Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
Literacy Rate Investment
Capital (factories, machinery, and
technology)
Entrepreneurship
*Not specifically stated in the state standards
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