Hands-On Social Studies for Ontario, Grade 4: An Inquiry Approach

Filled with a year's worth of classroom-tested hands-on, minds-on activities, this resource conveniently includes everything both teachers and students need.

The grade 4 book is divided into two units:

1. Heritage and Identity: Societies from 3000 BCE to 1500 CE

2. People and Environments: Political and Physical Regions of Canada

   STAND-OUT FEATURES

• focuses on the goals of the Ontario Social Studies curriculum

• adheres to the Growing Success document for assessment, evaluating, and reporting in Ontario schools

• builds understanding of Indigenous knowledge and perspectives

  TIME-SAVING, COST-EFFECTIVE FEATURES

• includes the five components of the inquiry model

• opportunities for self-reflection and activating prior knowledge

• authentic assessment for, as, and of learning

• social studies thinking concepts, guided inquiry questions, and learning goals

• support for developing historical thinking skills

• access to digital image banks and digital reproducibles (Find download instructions in the Appendix of the book)