Other Learning Areas: Social Studies

Discover contributes to Social Studies learning objectives by helping students to understand their world and “build their knowledge of their history, their land, and their society.” The following Stands and Achievement Objectives are particularly relevant.

 1. Place and Environment

Level 4

• Achievement Objectives
  “How places reflect past interactions of people with the environment.”
  
  
• Indicator Example
  “Identify features of a landscape that reflect people’s past activities.”

Level 6

• Achievement Objectives
  “How people’s descriptions of places and the environment reflect particular purposes and points of view.”
  
  
• Indicator Example
  “Explain the different ways in which places and environments can be described.” (e.g… visual images, models, texts sound recordings.)

 2. Culture and Heritage

Level 1

• Achievement Objectives
  “Features of the culture and heritage of their own and other groups.”
  
  
• Indicator Example
  “Describe features of their own culture and heritage (e.g. language names, dress, music.)

Level 6

• Achievement Objectives
  “How and why cultures adapt and change.”
  
  
• Indicator Example
  “Explain how cultural groups adopt and adapt the cultural practices of other groups.”

 3. Time, Continuity and Change

Level 3

• Achievement Objectives
  “How the past is recorded and remembered in different ways.”
  
  
• Indicator Example
  “Explain how people’s experiences and activities have been recorded in different time and place settings (e.g. through culture, language, technology, art.)

Level 5

• Achievement Objectives
  “How the ideas and actions of individuals and groups that have shaped the lives and experiences of people are viewed through time.”
  
  
• Indicator Example
  “Explain why the actions of individuals and groups are continually being reinterpreted.”