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Are you a Grade 2 Social Studies teacher looking for a complete unit for Changing Family and Community Traditions? This resource includes over 180 pages of fun, hands-on, interactive learning activities all about family types, diverse traditions and celebrations using an inquiry-based approach. Rubrics, teacher notes and even a media literacy activity are all included! ♥ CHECK OUT THE PREVIEW♥ALSO AVAILABLE IN A DISCOUNTED BUNDLE♥TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID…⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “This is a very engagi

Les Traditions Familiales et Communautaires cross curricular unit for the Ontario Social Studies Curriculum…created to help busy French Immersion Grade 2 teachers fit it all in! Your second grade students will love a more hands-on approach to learning Études Sociales and have lots of opportunities to share their knowledge in French. The adaptation of my bestseller includes over 160 pages of fun, hands-on, interactive and cross curricular learning activities, based on the new Inquiry-Based Lear

Buy both Changing Family and Community Traditions and People and Environments: Global Communities Ontario Grade 2 Social Studies units together and you'll have everything you need to teach your second graders this year plus SAVE 15% too! Click here to preview Changing Family and Community Traditions Click here to preview People and Environments: Global Communities TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID…⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Comprehensive and well aligned to the curriculum. This resource is very easy to use and all

Are you a Grade 2 teacher looking for an amazing hands-on resource to teach People and the Environments: Global Communities? This 190+ page inquiry based unit includes the tools you need to help students become independent researchers during Social Studies! Rubrics and observation pages are included for report card assessments. This resource is full of fun and rich learning activities for second graders that require minimum prep. Most activities can easily be used during Centers or i

Seamlessly weave the introduction of Canada's residential school system and the magic and beauty of Indigenous traditions with your students by using literacy activities created around the award winning picture book, Shi-shi-etko by Interior Salish and Métis author Nicola I. Campbell. This week-long integrated language arts and social studies unit is guaranteed to captivate your students. It is filled with over 10 engaging literacy activities and a unique art project inspired by Shi-shi-etk

FREE Every Child Matters no prep activities for Orange Shirt Day. September 30 is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and these 14 different printable options and bulletin board set will help K-3 students remember, reflect and honour the survivors of Canada's residential school system. Orange Shirt Day, also known as National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, is based on Phyllis Webstad’s story of entering an Indian Residential School in 1973 as a six-year old girl and having her shin

These quick and easy Remembrance Day Crafts help students commemorate November 11th in a meaningful way. Remembrance Day and war are difficult subjects to explain to younger learners as they are complicated and involve such serious subject matter. Gently introducing a few themes around Canada's heritage through suggested picture books and art activities puts both teachers and students at ease. Use one of these crafts and the "LEST WE FORGET" letters to make an instant bulletin board disp

Are you looking for inclusive posters of different types of families for Grade 2 Social Studies? Included in this file are 11 vibrant posters that each visually represent a family type such as same-sex and single parent as well as include a basic definition, too. Ideal for primary classrooms and the perfect addition to any unit about families and/or diversity. ===>CELEBRATE FAMILIES and DIVERSITY<===Posters Included:•Two Parent Family •Single Parent Family •Multigenerational Family

These Canadian money coin posters (penny, nickel, dime, quarter, loonie, toonie) help your students identify the various coins up to $2! The catchy poems and bright images grab attention and will assist your Grade 1 students learn the NEW Ontario Math Financial Literacy strand. This resource is for the Grade 1 FINANCIAL LITERACY strand and helps support the “F1. Money Concepts” expectation. Print and display these colourful posters on your Math Board as reference tools to help students exa

Save big by buying both Introduction to Residential Schools Unit One: Shi-shi-etko and Introduction to Residential Schools Unit Two: Shin-chi's Canoe (part of the Teach for Justice collection.) With this purchase you will have access to a minimum of 2 weeks worth of rich and diverse art, language, social justice and social studies activities. Included are step-by-step instructions on how to introduce residential schools to both primary and/or junior aged students. These units are ideal to

This collection of picture prompts is meant to assist your students to formulate questions and guide investigations into some of the holidays, traditions and celebrations in their own family and the communities to which they belong. Bring celebrations around the world to >>LIFE<< for your students with this MEGA BUNDLE of over 120+ full colour images. This bundle includes six resources: Holi, Chinese New Year, Hanukkah, Christmas, Eid al-Fitr, Diwali Included in this purchase (fo

Why settle for a family tree when you can create a three-generation Family Galaxy instead? Studying genealogy for kids has never been this much fun! Your students will love learning about their family history while creating an original keepsake piece of art. Click here and here to see some outer space backgrounds in progress Product Summary:Instructions 2 different letters home (a generic one and a Ontario Grade 2 Curriculum one) 3 different astronauts 2 planet pages (12 different planets i

Le trentième jour de septembre, dans tout le Canada, est désigné comme "Journée du chandail orange pour la vérité et la réconciliation". Orange Shirt Day is observed each September 30 to honour residential school survivors, those who did not survive, and their descendants. It is an opportunity for First Nations, schools and communities across Canada and beyond, to come together in the spirit of reconciliation and hope. The origin of  Orange Shirt Day is based on Phyllis Webstad’s story of ente

Do you teach Grade 2? Are you new to the Grade and feeling overwhelmed? If so, this MEGA BUNDLE: Term One is for you! This discounted bundle includes twelve essential resources you'll need to help you get through Term One. This bundle includes my bestselling Social Studies Strand A and Media Literacy units as well as Health, Classroom Management & Organization, Bulletin Boards, Math, Intro to Residential Schools (Orange Shirt Day), Halloween, Remembrance Day and Christmas resourc

This 60 page comprehensive unit based on Shin-chi’s Canoe introduces residential schools, encourages students to be critically engaged and caring learners as well as explores ways in which they can stand with First Nations children. Each of the 5 lessons uses learning goals from The Teaching Tolerance Social Justice Standards. In Nicola L. Campbell’s Shin-chi’s Canoe published by Groundwood Books (ISBN 978-1-77306-127-6), students hear the haunting story of six year old Shin-chi’s experiences

Bring celebrations around the world to >>LIFE<< with this set of 20+ full colour images all about Christmas! This collection of photographs is meant to assist your students to formulate questions and guide investigations into some of the past and present traditions and celebrations in their own family and the communities to which they belong. Included in this purchase: 30+ colour images with keywords30+ colour images without keywords (duplicate of set one)Video links to age-app

My famille affiches have been updated to reflect Ontario's 2023 études sociales grade 2 curriculum. Included in this file are 11 vibrant posters that each visually represent a family type as well as include a basic definition, too. Ideal for primary classrooms and the perfect addition to a Social Studies unit about families and/or diversity. Posters Included: •Famille biparentale •Famille monoparentale •Famille sans enfants •Famille nouvellement arrivées •Famille dirigée par les grand-parents

My second grade students were so mesmerized by 2017's Blue Spruce nominee Danielle Daniel's book, Sometimes I Feel Like A Fox, that I was inspired to create a multimedia art project as well as some accompanying writing pages to go along with it. You'll find acrostic writing pages for animals from 3 to 9 letters long as well as lined paper for descriptive paragraphs and pages for lower levels too. To read more about how my class created their amazing Animal Multimedia Art, read my blog post her

Interactive notebooks are a fun and hands-on way for students to record their learning. This inquiry-based resource has been tried and tested in classrooms with great success. This resource includes 2 different types of interactive notebooks (beginning readers/grade level readers AND colour/blacklines) for your students to use to organize facts and wondering about the continents. These simple and easy to assemble graphic organizers will help your students become independent researchers during

June 4th is Tom Longboat Day and there's no better time to learn all about him than during National Indigenous History Month! As an Indigenous male coming of age in the early 1900’s, he survived residential school and anti-Indigenous racism to become one of the world’s most famous athletes, a World War I dispatch runner, and an international celebrity. Your grade 1-4 students will love this unit filled with age-appropriate activities. In this book companion to Elizabeth MacLeod’s Meet Tom