Grade 9 SS Course Outline (Click Here )
Grade 9 Citizenship
All student instructions, discussions and work will be on Google Classrooms
Big Ideas
Who am I as a Citizen?
Learners will evaluate evolving concepts and attributes of citizenship as members of different kinds of communities.
Learners will evaluate key changes in the citizenship rights of Mi’kmaw and other traditionally dis-empowered people.
Learners will evaluate key changes in the citizenship rights of Mi’kmaw and other traditionally dis-empowered people.
Governance (Government & Democracy)
Learners will analyse how issues become valued within and across all areas of government and society.
Learners will investigate the structure, operation, and selection of government in Canada, including federal, provincial, territorial, indigenous, and municipal government models.
Learners will evaluate strategies to meaningfully engage as citizens within a democratic process.
Learners will investigate the structure, operation, and selection of government in Canada, including federal, provincial, territorial, indigenous, and municipal government models.
Learners will evaluate strategies to meaningfully engage as citizens within a democratic process.
Financial Citizenship
Learners will compare the impact of economic decisions from the perspectives of various groups of people.
Learners will analyse how effective decision-making and informed participation in society affect, and are affected by, personal financial management.
Learners will analyse how effective decision-making and informed participation in society affect, and are affected by, personal financial management.
Digital Citizenship
Learners will evaluate how perceptions of current issues are influenced by various media, and how this shapes actions, choices, and reactions.
Learners will evaluate risks, rights, and responsibilities of digital citizens.
Learners will evaluate risks, rights, and responsibilities of digital citizens.
Global Citizenship
Learners will evaluate the consequences of action and inaction as twenty-first century global citizens
Learners will evaluate and prioritize on a personal level global issues, human rights and the United Nations global goals for sustainable development.
Learners will evaluate and prioritize on a personal level global issues, human rights and the United Nations global goals for sustainable development.
Engaged Citizenship
Learners will construct a collaboratively-designed service learning project which addresses a need in the school or larger community.
Service Learning will be thread throughout the year starting with teacher directed projects and ending with student directed projects.
Service Learning will be thread throughout the year starting with teacher directed projects and ending with student directed projects.
Current Events
Current events will be used throughout the year to help students make connections between the classroom and ‘real world’ events. Occasionally we will focus on important current events as they happen.
Timeline
Themes will not necessarily be done in order. Depending on availability of speakers, current events and students interest we will occasionally move from one theme to another.
Online Projects
