This teacher resource offers a detailed introduction to the program, which includes its guiding principles, implementation guidelines, an overview of the social studies skills that grade 4 students use and develop, and a classroom assessment plan complete with record-keeping templates.

The guide has three instructional units:

• Unit 1: Geography of Canada
• Unit 2: Living in Canada
• Unit 3: Life in Canada’s North

Each unit is divided into lessons that focus on specific curricular outcomes. Each lesson has

• materials lists
• activity descriptions
• questioning techniques
• activity centre and extension ideas
• assessment suggestions
• activity sheets and visuals