Alberta Social Studies Grade 5 Full Year Bundle for the New 2025 Curriculum! Teach everything about ancient civilizations with hands-on activities, projects, and ready-to-teach lessons so you can plan your whole year in minutes. Everything you need is included (and more)! Don't be overwhelmed this year!
This complete year of lessons is designed for Alberta teachers. It includes:
lesson plans with step-by-step instructions and options for modifications.
instructions for how to use our activities with and without technology so you can be flexible for your students and classroom environment.
instructions for printing student workbooks while still offering differentiated options.
detailed outlines of each activity with a list of materials along with a centralized list and reminders in each section of the lesson plan.
optional Teacher Slides to support instruction and content delivery. You can choose to teach with or without them.
vocabulary list with phonetic pronunciations and definitions to help support your students.
“I can” statements written in student-friendly language so students can self-assess their learning.
student pages and templates.
answer keys and suggested answers.
photos of student examples.
activities to support learning content specific vocabulary.
background information for teachers so you don't need to be an expert.
simple assessments like quizzes. Rubrics are included for teachers to use for marking projects.
ideas for how to use this resource in the classroom, online, or a mix.
digital versions of all the student reading and writing pages that use Google Slides. You must download the PDF files and use the access links in the files to get your digital copies.
an alignment guide for Alberta Outcomes in each resource broken down by lesson and activity.
The year long resource includes additional bonus materials:
unit plans and a year plan to assist with sequencing.
a list of Alberta Social Studies outcomes to help with planning.
a list of materials outlined for each activity.
vocabulary support materials: word wall words, glossary pages, definition worksheets, digital flashcards, word with with phonetic pronunciations and definitions.
extra assessments to assess student learning of each unit.
These resources are included in this unit:
Time and Place:Social Scientists Drama Circle: understanding the role of social scientists; the jobs and unique skills of historians, archeologists, anthropologists and geographers; primary and secondary sources;The Development of Ancient Civilizations: factors that influenced ancient civilizations to settle in specific areas: geographical locations, geographical features, changes to the environment that cause people to move or adapt, changes to infrastructure such as building structures to move water, protect citizens, improve travel or increase trade; map skills; specific details about Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Ancient China, Ancient India and Ancient Arab civilizations;The Rise of Ancient Civilizations: timelines for BCE and CE; internal and external factors for the rise and fall of ancient civilizations; factors that led to the rise of ancient civilizations; innovations that helped solved daily problems for food, water, travel, trade, buildings and knowledge and communication; organized structures; strong leadership and leadership skills; military power; wealth and opportunity; details about the factors for Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Ancient China, Ancient India and Ancient Arab Civilizations;Innovations of Ancient Civilizations Collaborative Poster: inventions like theatre, democracy, papyrus, fabric, concrete, calendar, the compass and so much more and how they have left a lasting legacy;The Fall of Ancient Civilizations: factors that led to the fall of ancient civilizations; environmental changes; expenses; power and leadership; values and beliefs; wars and conquests; specific details about the factors for Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Ancient China, Ancient India and Ancient Arab Civilizations
Systems:Authoritarians and Empires: how leaders or governments gain power; monarchies and dictatorships; ways to maintain control and power: heredity, divine right, force; how government systems and social systems are used to gain and maintain power; why people follow authoritarian leaders; how empires grow; differences between civilizations and empires; examples from: Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Ancient China, Ancient India and Arab civilizations; Persian Empire; African Civilizations The Kingdom of Benin, Ife, Ghana, Mali, Songhai, Kush, and Axum; patterns of rising and falling in empires;Economic Practices: how innovations in farming allowed workers to specialize in new skills; how increased trade led to settlements and cities in ancient civilizations; farming innovations from Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Ancient China, Ancient India and Ancient Arab Civilizations; trade routes of the Royal Road, Trans-Saharan and Silk Road; the social, political, economic and environmental impacts of trade; the social, political, economic and environmental impacts of different technology innovations; comparing trade routes; economic practices: markets, banks, currency and taxes in ancient civilizations; comparing economic practices in ancient civilizations to modern practices;Social Systems: patriarchy, matriarchy and egalitarian societies; how people in some ancient civilizations were organized by gender; hierarchies: defined by education, wealth, occupations or heredity; how social systems could cause division within civilizations; opportunities and challenges faced by people who were part of the social systems; examples from Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Ancient China, Ancient India and Ancient Arab civilizations
Citizenship:Connections Then and Now:connections between the past and modern life; then and now comparisons of government systems, trade and exploration, and technology with examples from ancient civilizations;Informed Citizens: how to evaluate sources; facts and opinions; pros and cons; evaluating sources for perspective; choosing a side on an issue; ways to take action on an issue
Ninja Note: If you teach in Alberta, this resource has been written for the new social studies curriculum. Learn more about how we're writing and adjusting resources for the new curriculum. https://brainninjas.ca/social-studies-in-alberta/
Ninja Note: This file is a ZIP file. It requires downloading and extracting before opening the individual PDF files. Each resource contains the digital links and instructions for using the file.
