Sir Robert Borden High School – Social Sciences Department
Geography of Canada – CGC 1P
Course Outline
Unit 1 – Map Skills (Methods of Geographic Inquiry)
v Introduction to Geography and Canada
v Map making (projections, types of maps and symbols)
v Location (direction, grids)
v Scale
v GIS, GPS, and remote sensing
Unit 2 – Physical Geography (Physical Connections)
v Geological Timeline, structure of the earth and rock cycle
v Plates tectonics and plate movement
v landform regions (mountains and prairies)
v climate regions (climatology)
v soils and natural vegetation regions
v ecozones
Unit 3 – Human Geography (Cultural Connections)
v Demographics (statistics, rates and population pyramids)
v Immigration patterns and policies
v Settlement patterns (distribution and density)
v First Nations and Nunavut
v Urban land use patterns
Unit 4 – Economic Geography (Economic Connections)
v Types of Industries and resources (P,S,T,Q,Q)
v Primary Industries (i.e. forestry, mining…)
v Secondary Industries (location factors)
v Tertiary Industries (transportation and technologies)
v Ecological Footprint and Global Warming
Unit 5 – Canada and the World (Canada’s Global Connections)
v Ranking Countries
v Canada’s connections to the outside world (sweatshops and landmines)
v Organizations and Treaties
v Canadian Culture and the USA
Evaluations: Approximate Weighting:
-various assignments (class work and homework) 20 %
-4 unit projects 30 %
-4 unit test 20 %
-summative evaluations 30%
70% TERM WORK
Knowledge and Understanding 20%
Thinking and Inquiry 15%
Application 20%
Communication 15%
30% SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENTS
Project 20%
Final Exam 10%