The student book module for Strand A - Communities in Canada, Past and Present provides: 100% alignment to 2013 Ontario Curriculum Social Studies 1 to 6 Globe and Mapping Skills Continuum Thinking Concepts Inquiry

Suggests activities to be used at home to accompany the reading of Miss Nelson is missing by Harry Allard in the classroom.

The Nelson Social Studies 5 Activity Cards offer easy-to-implement and engaging activities, featuring age-appropriate inquiry strategies, and map, globe, and graphing skills. The Activity Cards encourage purposeful talk and offer opportunities for students to respond to their learning through writing, creating, and role-playing, while supporting and extending the skills they have learned through the First Nations and European Explorers and Canadian Government and Citizenship Student Books. The Activity cards are designed to be used individually, in pairs, or in small groups, so students can collaborate to complete the activities on the back of each card.

Time Inc. presents a biographical sketch of Nelson Mandela as part of the "LIFE" magazine Hall of Heroes. South African statesman and President Nelson Mandela (1918- ) was a political activist and spent 26 years in prison before the collapse of apartheid.

These cost-effective, innovative, full colour Social Studies workbooks are designed to be used for homework, revision or class-work in New Zealand Social Studies classes. Skills units are self-contained and can be approached in any order, examples: analysing maps, cartoons, photos; making flow charts, timelines, problem-solving, paragraph writing, multi-choice questions, visual information, perspective etc. Settings are widely used in New Zealand schools, examples: Human Rights, Our Economy, Kiwiana, Multiculturalism, Waitangi Day, Environmental Disasters etc.