Education and Early Childhood Learning

• important groups
• places important to children
• basic needs (food, clothing, safety rules)
• rules and responsibilities
• Remembrance Day

• important people
• cooperation and conflict
• communication (art, dance, song, facial expression, body language, sign language)
• time, recurring events
• work and resources
• celebrations

• living in Canada
• world needs (food, clothing, shelter...)
• landmarks (parks, statues, buildings, natural landmarks...)
• mapping (globes, maps, models- as representations of actual places)

• personal identity
• my family
• family celebrations
• family connections to the past
• Remembrance Day

• Manitoba, Canada
• media influence
• mapping (globes, maps, land and water masses)
• community landmarks and places
• environment
• needs and wants
• official languages and national anthem
• Remembrance Day

Cluster 3 - Connecting with Others

• diversity
• rights and responsibilities
• interdependence
• rules and laws
• conflict/bullying
• global connections

• community: resources, physical characteristics, interactions
• community groups (cultural, linguistic, First Nations...)
• past and present stories of their local community
• individual and community heritage and culture
• community leadership
• important people, events, and places
• Remembrance Day
• mapping (location)

Cluster 2 - Communities in Canada

• Aboriginal communities in Canada
• Canadian communities
• natural resources, work, goods and services (how these factors shape life in communities)
• immigration from different parts of the world
• communities change over time
• mapping (location)

• origins of place names
• global connections (food, immigration, media...)
• national and provincial symbols
• diversity (cultural, linguistic, geographic, artistic...)
• Canadian needs
• media influences on choices and decisions

• rights and responsibilities
• connections with other Canadians
• community leadership (formal and informal)
• decision making (conflict, bullying)
• Canadian citizenship (national anthem)
• Remembrance Day

• mapping (maps, aerial photographs and satellite images)
• mapping (equator, hemispheres, continents, oceans)
• common concerns and connections between world communities
• community services
• human rights (housing, education, security, food, water...)
• international support organizations (United Nations, UNICEF, Red Cross...)

• global human diversity
• contemporary world communities (physical, social, cultural; daily life, traditions)
• indigenous communities of the world
• mapping (location of communities or countries)
• media influences on perceptions of people and places

• ways of life
• customs, stories, traditions
• cultural expressions (art, architecture, music, dance, writing,stories, religious practices)
• senduring contributions (ideas, inventions, art, architecture, stories)

• physical geography of Manitoba and Canada
• mapping (geographic regions, oceans, major landforms, lakes, waterways, provinces, territories, capital cities)

• government (levels, responsibilities)
• leadership (Manitoba and Canada)
• power and authority (formal and informal)
• citizenship and democracy
• symbols and monuments (national, provincial, territorial)
• commemorative days (national, provincial, territorial)
• media influences on perceptions of people and places
  

• physical features
• environmental stewardship and sustainability
• people, places and communities of Manitoba (historical, cultural or environmental)
• diverse artistic and cultural achievements
• global connections
• mapping (lakes, rivers, landforms, vegetation, forests, parks, cities, towns, First Nations communities, resources...)

• stories of events and individuals from Manitoba's past
  stories of early settlement
• contributions of diverse ethnic and cultural communities (Aboriginal, francophone, European)

• physical and human geography of the territory(ies)
• stories, traditions, and changes in ways of life in Canada's North
• Aboriginal contributions to the Canadian community
• contribution of the North to the Canadian community
• mapping (physical features, natural resources)