Grade 8 Social Studies — BC Curriculum

Identity, place, history, and citizenship across K–12.

• Contacts and conflicts between peoples stimulated significant cultural, social, political change.
• Human and environmental factors shape changes in population and living standards.
• Exploration, expansion, and colonization had varying consequences for different groups.
• Changing ideas about the world created tension between people wanting to adopt new ideas and those wanting to preserve established traditions.

School2Home is a British Columbia curriculum companion for parents. Source: curriculum.gov.bc.ca.