Cluster 1- Me

• important groups
• places important to children
• basic needs (food, clothing, safety rules)
• rules and responsibilities
• Remembrance Day

Cluster 2- People Around Me

• important people
• cooperation and conflict
• communication (art, dance, song, facial expression, body language, sign language)
• time, recurring events
• work and resources
• celebrations

Cluster 3 -World Around Me

• living in Canada
• world needs (food, clothing, shelter...)
• landmarks (parks, statues, buildings, natural landmarks...)
• mapping (globes, maps, models- as representations of actual places)

Cluster 1- I Belong

• personal identity
• my family
• family celebrations
• family connections to the past
• Remembrance Day

Cluster 2- My Environment

• Manitoba, Canada
• media influence
• mapping (globes, maps, land and water masses)
• community landmarks and places
• environment
• needs and wants
• official languages and national anthem
• Remembrance Day

Cluster 3- Connecting with Others

• diversity
• rights and responsibilities
• interdependence
• rules and laws
• conflict/bullying
• global connections

Cluster 1- Our Local Community

• community: resources, physical characteristics, interactions
• community groups (cultural, linguistic, First Nations...)
• past and present stories of their local community
• individual and community heritage and culture
• community leadership
• important people, events, and places
• Remembrance Day
• mapping (location)

Cluster 2- Communities in Canada

• Aboriginal communities in Canada
• Canadian communities
• natural resources, work, goods and services (how these factors shape life in communities)
• immigration from different parts of the world
• communities change over time
• mapping (location)

Cluster 3- The Canadian Community

• origins of place names
• global connections (food, immigration, media...)
• national and provincial symbols
• diversity (cultural, linguistic, geographic, artistic...)
• Canadian needs
• media influences on choices and decisions

Cluster 1- Connecting with Canadians

• rights and responsibilities
• connections with other Canadians
• community leadership (formal and informal)
• decision making (conflict, bullying)
• Canadian citizenship (national anthem)
• Remembrance Day

Cluster 2- Exploring the World

• mapping (maps, aerial photographs and satellite images)
• mapping (equator, hemispheres, continents, oceans)
• common concerns and connections between world communities
• community services
• human rights (housing, education, security, food, water...)
• international support organizations (United Nations, UNICEF, Red Cross...)

Cluster 3- Communities of the World

• global human diversity
• contemporary world communities (physical, social, cultural; daily life, traditions)
• indigenous communities of the world
• mapping (location of communities or countries)
• media influences on perceptions of people and places

Cluster 4- Exploring an Ancient Society: one of ancient Egypt, China, Japan, the Vikings, Incas, Mayas, or Aztecs

• ways of life
• customs, stories, traditions
• cultural expressions (art, architecture, music, dance, writing,stories, religious practices)
• senduring contributions (ideas, inventions, art, architecture, stories)

Cluster 1- Geography of Canada

• physical geography of Manitoba and Canada
• mapping (geographic regions, oceans, major landforms, lakes, waterways, provinces, territories, capital cities)

Cluster 2- Living in Canada

• government (levels, responsibilities)
• leadership (Manitoba and Canada)
• power and authority (formal and informal)
• citizenship and democracy
• symbols and monuments (national, provincial, territorial)
• commemorative days (national, provincial, territorial)
• media influences on perceptions of people and places
  

Cluster 3- Living in Manitoba

• physical features
• environmental stewardship and sustainability
• people, places and communities of Manitoba (historical, cultural or environmental)
• diverse artistic and cultural achievements
• global connections
• mapping (lakes, rivers, landforms, vegetation, forests, parks, cities, towns, First Nations communities, resources...)

Cluster 4- History of Manitoba

• stories of events and individuals from Manitoba's past
  stories of early settlement
• contributions of diverse ethnic and cultural communities (Aboriginal, francophone, European)

Cluster 5- Canada's North - Yukon, NWT, Nunavut

• physical and human geography of the territory(ies)
• stories, traditions, and changes in ways of life in Canada's North
• Aboriginal contributions to the Canadian community
• contribution of the North to the Canadian community
• mapping (physical features, natural resources)