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Social Studies

What You Will Learn

The learning outcomes below outline the key skills and knowledge assessed on the CAEC test for this subject.

  • Understandings of relationships among worldviews, identities, and citizenship in Canada.

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    • 1.1 Identify and analyze features, structures, processes, and practices of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of governments in Canada.

    • 1.2 Analyze and compare political systems and models of governance, including those of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit in Canada.

    • 1.3 Examine democratic, electoral, and justice systems in Canada alongside the rights, roles, and responsibilities of individuals within them.

    • 1.4 Identify and compare local, provincial/territorial, and federal government structures and responsibilities in Canada.

    • 1.5 Identify and interpret individual and collective rights in Canada through various lenses, such as legislation, human rights, treaties, title, and land claims.

    • 1.6 Examine how individual and collective citizenship, leadership, and activism can be expressed in local, national, and global contexts.

    • 1.7 Analyze how individual and collective identities and diverse perspectives can influence political decision-making in Canada.

    • 1.8 Examine factors that contribute to individual and collective identities and that signify Canada’s contributions to global affairs.

  • Understandings of relationships among needs and wants, resources, and scarcity that influence economic choices of individuals, groups, and governments.

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    • 2.1 Analyze Canada’s economic system and compare it with the features, structures, processes, and practices of other economic systems.

    • 2.2 Analyze and compare features of current, traditional and subsistence economic activity.

    • 2.3 Analyze and evaluate how supply, demand, and price influence production, consumption, distribution, and exchange of goods and services. 2.4 Apply and analyze factors that contribute to economic conditions of growth and decline, stability and instability, sustainability, and interdependence.

    • 2.5 Evaluate and analyze economic factors and decision-making at personal, local, regional, national, and international levels.

    • 2.6 Identify and analyze roles and relationships of consumers, producers, financial institutions, and governments in local, national, and global markets.

    • 2.7 Estimate and evaluate factors that contribute to economic disparity and quality of life in Canada and the world.

  • Understandings of past events and developments that influenced and continue to influence continuity and change.

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    • 3.1 Analyze and interpret authentic and designed primary and secondary sources (e.g. cultural referents, opinions, photographs, cartoons, illustrations, maps, diagrams, graphs, tables, graphic narratives, infographics, timelines, and excerpts from speeches, newspaper articles, government documents or other published works).

    • 3.2 Interpret and analyze experiences, perspectives, and contributions of diverse social and cultural communities in Canada.

    • 3.3 Recognize and consider diverse cultures, traditions, worldviews, and histories of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit.

    • 3.4 Recognize and consider diverse Francophone perspectives, histories, and contributions in Canada.

    • 3.5 Analyze cause and consequences of significant events and developments in what is now Canada.

    • 3.6 Analyze Canada’s regional, national, and international contributions to cooperation and conflicts.

    • 3.7 Recognize the significance of remembrance, commemoration, redress, and reconciliation in relation to historical and ongoing legacies and injustices.

  • Understandings of human physical geography of Canada and its relationship to the world.

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    • 4.1 Distinguish between various human, regional, political, cultural, and geographic features of Canada.

    • 4.2 Make connections between people, the land, and the environments in Canada.

    • 4.3 Examine past and present movement of peoples to, from, and within Canada and changes in demographics.

    • 4.4 Identify and analyze cultural, political, social, geographic, and environmental factors that contribute to sense of place and identity.

    • 4.5 Identify and evaluate factors that contribute to environmental stewardship and influence sustainability in local, national, and global contexts.

Social Studies Printed Modules

Access Notice:
The module content and teacher-created practice tests are password protected and intended for registered CVALA learners only. These materials are compiled and adapted for instructional use and are not to be copied, distributed, or shared.

Learning Resources

Webpages, readings, and reference materials

These online resources are available on desktop computers only and are not accessible on mobile devices at this time.

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