Our Changing Roles and Responsibilities

Heritage and Identity

Grade 1 Ontario Social Studies

Helping you meet the Ontario Grade 1 Social Studies Curriculum, these six lessons provide a great start to help you expose students to the many roles and responsibilities that help make a community a success. The goals of these lessons are to familiarize students with their growing role in the community and an acceptance and willingness to take part in the many activities that make a community successful. 

Teacher Notes Include:

• At A Glance – Learning Expectations

• Teacher Assessment Rubric

• Student Assessment Rubric

• Unit Introduction

Lesson Plans and Worksheets:

Each lesson includes teaching tips and notes under these headings:

1. Learning Intentions:

   1. Values, Attitudes, Knowledge and Understanding

   2. Skills and Processes

2. Success Criteria

3. Materials Needed

4. Procedure

5. Modifications

6. Extension Activity

Student reading information and worksheets.

Lesson Topics Include:

• Lesson 1: Our Roles and How They Change

• Lesson 2: The Impact of Relationships

• Lesson 3: The People Who Make a Difference

• Lesson 4: Mapping our Neighbourhood

• Lesson 5: Timelines of our Lives

• Lesson 6: Our Behaviours

Plus these EXTRAS:

• Extra #1 Firefighter Badge Design

• Extra #2 Behaviour Code

• Extra #3 Word Search and Unscramble

• Extra #4 Matching Game

• Extra #5 Design a Fire Truck

• Extra #6 The Mayor is Calling

• Extra #7 Roles

• Unit Test

The Local Community

People and Environments

Grade 1 Ontario Social Studies

Helping you meet the Ontario Grade 1 Social Studies Curriculum, these six lessons provide a great start to help you expose students to their local community. The activities have two intentions: to teach concepts that relate to the local community and to help students make connections with their own experiences and the community they live in. This resource provides a snapshot for the teacher to expose their students to the many aspects of the local community.

Teacher Notes Include:

• At A Glance – Learning Expectations

• Teacher Assessment Rubric

• Student Assessment Rubric

• Unit Introduction

Lesson Plans and Worksheets:

Each lesson includes teaching tips and notes under these headings:

1. Learning Intentions:

1. Values, Attitudes, Knowledge and Understanding

2. Skills and Processes

2. Success Criteria

3. Materials Needed

4. Procedure

5. Modifications

6. Extension Activity

Lesson Topics Include:

Student reading information and worksheets.

• Lesson One: What is a Community?

• Lesson Two: The Community and How We Use It

• Lesson Three: Occupations in the Community

• Lesson Four: Recycling and Caring for the Community

• Lesson Five: Mapping Our Community Services

• Lesson Six: Services in the Community

Plus these EXTRAS:

The Extras provide extra assignments that do not have a specific lesson that they are attached to but help to reinforce the content that the students have been learning in the unit. 

1. Extra #1: Word Scramble

2. Extra #2: Matching Game

3. Extra #3: Recycling Truck

4. Extra #4: Design a Mailbox

5. Extra #5: Design a Police Car

6. Extra #6: Design a Police Badge

Unit Test

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