SASKATCHEWAN SOCIAL STUDIES CURRICULUM
Grade 4
link to the curriculum

IN4.2 Cultural diversity in Saskatchewan communities
• The various First Nations tribes and language groupings in Saskatchewan prior to settlement
• Ways in which First Nations peoples helped the early European newcomers to survive.
• Why immigrants left their homelands to come to Canada and to Saskatchewan
• Challenges and hardships faced by the European immigrants and the First Nations people
• The immigrants and the First Nations worked together.
• The immigrants worked together to build prairie communities.

DR4.1 Impact of the land on the lifestyles and settlement
• How residents of Saskatchewan came to occupy the province (First Nations, immigrants)

RW4.1 Strategies people developed to meet the challenges presented the natural environment
• Challenges presented by climate and weather extremes
• Hardships and survival
• Farming - difficulties of farming in the early days, tools and implements used

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TOPICS covered on EARLY DAYS - THE HOMESTEADERS website

• the immigrants: reasons for coming to Canada
• Settlers in the 1880s and 1890s came from eastern Canada.
• the journey - on sea and on land
• hardships
• homes, food, work, leisure
• traded goods and services instead of using money
• growth of communities
• immigrant children ( work , play , school )
• celebrations ( Christmas )
• different types of transportation
• interaction with First Nations and Métis people and other immigrants

see site index for all
EARLY DAYS - HOMESTEADERS web pages

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Major Historical Sites in Saskatchewan

• Motherwell Homestead National Historic Park
• Batoche National Historic Park
• Fort Battleford National Historic Park
• Last Mountain House Provincial Historic Park
• Cumberland House Provincial Historic Park
• Fort Carlton Provincial Historic Park
• Fort Pitt Provincial Historic Park
• Steele Narrows Provincial Historic Park
• Cannington Manor Provincial Historic Park
• Touchwood Hills Post Provincial Historic Park
• St. Victor's Petroglyphs Provincial Historic Park
• The Western Development Museums in Moose Jaw, Saskatoon, and North Battleford
• Holy Trinity Anglican Church Historic Site
• Wood Mountain Post Provincial Historic Park
• Fort Walsh National Historic Park
• Grey Owl's Cabin
• Government House Historic Property
• Wanuskewin Heritage Park