Saskatchewan River Valley Museum
Curriculum Connections
If you want to plan a trip with your class, please contact the main line to arrange a time. There are connections to the curriculum in almost every grade.
Grade 1
Interactions and Interdependence
Describe the diversity of traditions, celebrations, or stories of individuals in the classroom and school.
Assess ways in which relationships help to meet human needs.
Dynamic Relationships
Relate family events and stories of the recent or distant past to the student's place in present day family life.
Describe kinship patterns of the past and present and describe according to traditional teachings
Demonstrate awareness of humans' reliance on the natural environment to meet needs, and how location affects families in meeting needs and wants.
Identify and represent the orientation in space (where) and time (when) of significant places and events in the lives of students.
Resources and Wealth
Describe the influence of physical, spiritual, emotional, and intellectual needs and wants on personal well-being.
Discuss ways in which work may be managed and distributed in families, schools, and groups.
Grade 2
Interactions and Interdependence
Determine characteristics of a community.
Create a representation of the diversity of cultural groups in the local community.
Dynamic Relationships
Investigate stories of significant events and persons in the local community's history to describe the contribution of those who lived in the community in earlier times.
Analyze the influence of the natural environment on the local community.
Power and Authority
Assess and practice various approaches to resolving conflicting interests within the community.
Analyze how decisions are made within the local community.
Resources and Wealth
Describe ways in which the local community meets needs and wants of its members.
Analyze various worldviews regarding the natural environment.
Contribute to initiating and guiding change in local and global communities regarding environmental, social, and economic sustainability.
Grade 3
Interactions and Interdependence
Analyze daily life in a diversity of communities.
Analyze the cultures and traditions in communities studied.
Illustrate examples of interdependence of communities
Dynamic Relationships
Assess the degree to which the geography and related environmental and climatic factors influence ways of living on and with the land.
Compare the beliefs of various communities around the world regarding living on and with the land.
Power and Authority
Compare how decisions are made in the local community and communities studied.
Resources and Wealth
Appraise the ways communities meet their members' needs and wants.
Analyze the creation and distribution of wealth in communities studied.
Evaluate the ways in which technologies have impacted daily life.
Grade 4
Interactions and Interdependence
Describe the origins of the cultural diversity in Saskatchewan communities.
Determine the influence Saskatchewan people and programs have had on a national scale.
Dynamic Relationships
Correlate the impact of the land on the lifestyles and settlement patterns of the people of Saskatchewan.
Power and Authority
Analyze the relationship between governance institutions in Saskatchewan and the quality of life of people in the province.
Resources and Wealth
Analyze the strategies Saskatchewan people have developed to meet the challenges presented by the natural environment.
Investigate the importance of agriculture to the economy and culture of Saskatchewan.
Assess the impact of Saskatchewan resources and technological innovations on the provincial, national, and global communities.
Grade 5
Interactions and Interdependence
Analyze the evolution of Canada as a multicultural nation.
Dynamic Relationships
Analyze the historic and contemporary relationship of people to land in Canada.
Assess the impact of the environment on the lives of people living in Canada.
Identify the European influence on pre-confederation Canadian society.
Power and Authority
Describe Canada's political evolution.
Resources and Wealth
Explain the importance of sustainable management of the environment to Canada's future.
Hypothesize about economic changes that Canada may experience in the future.
Grade 6
Interactions and Interdependence
Determine characteristics of a community.
Create a representation of the diversity of cultural groups in the local community.
Dynamic Relationships
Investigate stories of significant events and persons in the local community's history to describe the contribution of those who lived in the community in earlier times.
Analyze the influence of the natural environment on the local community.
Power and Authority
Assess and practice various approaches to resolving conflicting interests within the community.
Analyze how decisions are made within the local community.
Resources and Wealth
Describe ways in which the local community meets needs and wants of its members.
Analyze various worldviews regarding the natural environment.
Contribute to initiating and guiding change in local and global communities regarding environmental, social, and economic sustainability.
Grade 7
Interactions and Interdependence
Analyze the relationship of technology to globalization.
Dynamic Relationships
Appraise the impact of human habitation on the natural environment in Canada, and in a selection of Pacific Rim and northern circumpolar countries.
Grade 8
Interactions and Interdependence
Investigate the meaning of culture and the origins of Canadian cultural diversity.
Appraise the influence of immigration as a factor in Canadian cultural diversity.
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Dynamic Relationships
Develop an understanding of the significance of land on the evolution of Canadian identity.
Assess how historical events in Canada have affected the present Canadian identity
Power and Authority
Examine the role of power and authority in the application of diverse decision-making processes in a variety of contexts.
Assess the impact of citizens' willingness and ability to actively engage in the Canadian political processes.