Grade 11 Social Studies Worksheets

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• Evaluate historical sources related to residential schools
• Interpret different perspectives and accounts from survivors and policymakers
• Assess the causes and long-term impacts of residential school policies+ Show more

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• Explain how the 1960s counterculture challenged traditional values about authority and social norms
• Analyze how peace activism and civil rights efforts contributed to broader cultural and policy debates
• Evaluate how lifestyle choices and mass media helped spread countercultural ideas

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• Explain why the New Deal was introduced during the Great Depression and what goals it aimed to achieve.
• Identify key New Deal programs and match them to their general purpose (job creation, relief, or financial reform).
• Describe how the New Deal expanded the federal government’s role in economic and social policy.+ Show more

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• Explain how family, school, peers, and media contribute to socialization, identity, and role learning.
• Analyze how norms and expectations shape behavior through psychological and social mechanisms.
• Evaluate how digital networks create continuity and change in socialization across generations.

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• Analyze how evidence and perspectives are integrated in coherent arguments.
• Evaluate differing viewpoints and counterarguments in case studies.
• Construct well-reasoned claims supported by primary and secondary sources.+ Show more

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• Explain how anthropology, psychology, and sociology define culture, norms, roles, identity, cognition, and social structure
• Identify how socialization connects cultural expectations to psychological development and behavior
• Analyze continuity and change by relating historical persistence and transformation to social practices+ Show more

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• Explain how U.S. foreign policy uses diplomacy, military interventions, and economic aid to manage international relations.
• Analyze how key historical events shaped changes in U.S. strategies over time.
• Evaluate how foreign policy choices affect global stability and conflict resolution.

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• Formulate a focused inquiry question and identify sub-questions for a capstone research project.
• Evaluate the reliability and relevance of sources using criteria such as authority, currency, bias, and evidence quality.
• Synthesize Indigenous and non-Indigenous perspectives to build coherent, evidence-based public arguments.+ Show more

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• Apply civic reasoning to real public dilemmas by connecting evidence to rights, responsibilities, and ethical principles.
• Evaluate the strength of claims by distinguishing facts, interpretations, and assumptions in civic arguments.
• Compare perspectives of different stakeholders to judge potential impacts on equity, participation, and accountability.+ Show more

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• Explain key causes and major developments of the Vietnam War era and how they shaped U.S. politics.
• Analyze how draft policies and civil liberties debates influenced public protest and activism.
• Evaluate different perspectives on foreign intervention and their cultural and political impacts.

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• Explain how U.S. and Soviet leaders’ fears after World War II contributed to the Cold War’s start
• Describe the policy of containment and how it influenced U.S. foreign policy
• Analyze how Cold War fears of subversion affected civil liberties and government actions

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• Explain how deregulation, regulation, and deregulation-to-welfare policy shifts affect employment, income distribution, and economic stability.
• Evaluate how government intervention and free enterprise can balance growth with social needs.
• Analyze policy examples using key economic concepts such as unemployment, redistribution, and market efficiency.

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• Explain how immigration patterns can create demographic shifts in a country.
• Analyze how policy debates and initiatives influence multicultural understanding and social cohesion.
• Evaluate how cultural diversity can shape ideas of national identity.

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• Explain the purpose of ethnographic methods in producing rich qualitative accounts of cultural practices.
• Identify key research practices such as participant observation, open-ended interviewing, and reflexive field notes.
• Analyze how researcher positionality and power dynamics shape ethnographic data and interpretation.+ Show more

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• Evaluate how historical policies and church-state arrangements shaped the lived experience of Indigenous students in residential schools.
• Interpret perspectives using survivor accounts, oral testimony, and documentary evidence, and assess the reliability of each source type.
• Analyze causes and consequences, including intergenerational impacts and the concept of cultural genocide.+ Show more

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• Analyze key drivers of immigration and how they form migration patterns.
• Assess impacts of immigration on labour markets, demographics, and community resources.
• Evaluate evidence and compare policy approaches across countries and contexts.+ Show more

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• Identify multiple perspectives on a historical or contemporary issue and explain what each perspective emphasizes.
• Analyze causal chains by distinguishing motivations, immediate causes, and short- and long-term consequences.
• Evaluate ethical dimensions of decisions by considering stakeholders, fairness, and accountability.

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• Explain how law codes and religious ideologies helped legitimize rulers in Mesopotamia, South Asia, and early Africa.
• Analyze how sacred kingship and theology shaped property rights, gender roles, and social hierarchy.
• Evaluate continuity and change in legal principles and ritual practices across different societies.

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• Analyze how collective action and strategic messaging can transform public policy and social norms.
• Evaluate evidence by comparing multiple perspectives on protest tactics and their legitimacy.
• Assess causes and consequences of civil rights, environmental, and Indigenous rights movements using ethical reasoning.

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• Analyze key causes (drivers) of urbanization and connect them to demographic change
• Assess impacts of urbanization on housing, infrastructure, governance, and environmental conditions
• Evaluate evidence from demographic and spatial data when considering policy responses+ Show more

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• Explain how reform movements respond to problems created or intensified by industrialization and urbanization.
• Compare major reform goals, including abolition of slavery, women’s suffrage, and workers’ rights.
• Evaluate how reform efforts influence legislation and expand ideas of civil rights and democracy.

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• Explain how taxation and representation conflicts contributed to revolutionary ideology in the American colonies.
• Identify key Enlightenment ideas that shaped revolutionary principles and arguments for independence.
• Describe how revolutionary war and sovereignty influenced the creation and purpose of foundational documents.

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• Explain how social movements form, grow, and influence public policy to address inequality.
• Analyze the interdependence of different groups within a movement (participants, allies, opponents, institutions).
• Evaluate how tactics, goals, and framing affect the outcomes of social movements.

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• Evaluate the reliability and significance of historical and contemporary claims using source criticism.
• Interpret relevance, provenance (origin), and purpose when comparing primary and secondary sources.
• Corroborate information across multiple sources and assess how perspectives shape evidence.+ Show more

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• Assess how technology, policy, and economic forces drive globalization.
• Analyze consequences of globalization for labor, sovereignty, and cultural exchange.
• Compare perspectives on globalization’s benefits and harms using evidence.+ Show more

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• Explain how qualitative interviews, surveys, observation, and comparative ethnography answer different research questions
• Evaluate limitations and ethical risks associated with common social research methods
• Use methodological fit to justify choices and predict how method selection can shape findings

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• Compare how functionalist, conflict, symbolic interactionist, cognitive-developmental, and anthropological theories explain the same social phenomenon.
• Use evidence to evaluate which theory best fits a specific social issue and explain why.
• Analyze how policy implications change when different theories are used to identify causes and likely outcomes.+ Show more

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• Analyze how ethical duties in the legal profession relate to individual rights and public trust.
• Evaluate conflicts of interest by identifying their causes and predicting their consequences for access to justice.
• Explain how continuity and change in professional regulatory codes affect judicial sanctions and institutional legitimacy.+ Show more

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• Evaluate social explanations by checking empirical evidence and theoretical coherence.
• Distinguish correlation from causation when analyzing demographic, economic, and cultural patterns.
• Assess alternative interpretations and explain how they affect the credibility of an explanation.+ Show more

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• Compare market economies, social democracies, and mixed systems using public services, welfare, and civic participation.
• Assess how different institutional choices affect economic outcomes and individual freedoms.
• Interpret evidence from examples and justify evaluations of policy trade-offs.+ Show more

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• Analyze how identity (race, gender, language, Indigenous status) shapes political mobilization and public priorities.
• Assess impacts of identity-based politics on institutions, policy outcomes, and cultural recognition.
• Evaluate evidence from different perspectives to judge claims ethically and support inclusion and pluralism.

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• Pose focused historical inquiry questions that connect continuity and change to present contexts.
• Gather and compare primary and secondary sources to interpret perspectives responsibly.
• Assess evidence credibility by identifying bias, corroborating claims, and evaluating cause and consequence.+ Show more

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• Explain how the Charter fits within Canada’s constitutional framework, including constitutional supremacy and rights protection.
• Describe how the Constitution Act, 1867 and 1982 divide powers between federal and provincial governments.
• Analyze why judicial review is used and how courts choose remedies that balance rights and government objectives.+ Show more

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• Identify key assumptions of major theoretical perspectives in anthropology, psychology, and sociology
• Explain how theoretical frameworks shape interpretation of human behaviour and social patterns
• Compare causes and policy implications attributed by different theories+ Show more

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• Explain how rights frameworks and ethical obligations guide responses to injustice and inequality.
• Evaluate evidence and compare perspectives when human rights appear to conflict.
• Assess enforcement mechanisms and propose ethically grounded civic responses.

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• Evaluate the reliability of different media sources by checking evidence, credibility, and corroboration.
• Analyze how framing, selection of evidence, and agenda setting shape public understanding and political discourse.
• Identify misinformation and explain strategies to verify claims across platforms and formats.+ Show more

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• Assess how international organizations influence cooperation and conflict between states and societies.
• Analyze evidence from mandates and policy tools to explain different outcomes in real or plausible crises.
• Compare perspectives of global governance actors (UN bodies, trade bodies, regional alliances) and evaluate ethical responsibilities.

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• Compare how early states, medieval institutions, and premodern trade networks shaped long-term regional change before 1500.
• Explain how demographic shifts, environmental pressures, and economic incentives interact to influence political resilience and cultural diffusion.
• Analyze how continuity and change in trade links and political forms contributed to emerging global connectivity.

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• Explain key causes of early Islamic caliphate expansion, including military conquest and religious mobilization.
• Describe administrative and legal innovations and how they supported urban growth and scholarship.
• Analyze how intellectual exchange, trade networks, and religious authority reinforced long-distance connectivity.

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• Explain how systemic political and economic choices can produce unequal distributions of wealth and opportunity.
• Interpret quantitative measures of inequality, including income distribution, access to services, and social mobility indicators.
• Assess policy options by comparing intended outcomes, unintended consequences, and trade-offs.+ Show more

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• Explain how historical significance is determined by long-term effects on society and governance.
• Analyze cause-and-effect relationships between past actions and present outcomes.
• Evaluate how leaders, movements, and policies continue to shape rights, institutions, and decision-making.

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• Explain how mechanization and expanded manufacturing changed the American economy
• Analyze how railroads and other transportation networks affected production and markets
• Evaluate how industrialization influenced urban growth, immigration, labor rights, and social change+ Show more

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• Explain how European settlers’ motivations and Indigenous interactions shaped early American society.
• Describe how regional economies and social structures developed during the colonial period.
• Analyze how imperial rule and resistance movements contributed to revolutionary ideas.+ Show more

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• Explain how globalization, migration, and technology can cause cultural change while also supporting cultural continuity.
• Analyze how policies and institutions influence which cultural norms persist, transform, or face resistance.
• Evaluate cultural change using examples and connect change to identity, power, and social outcomes.

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• Explain how family structure, language, gender norms, and belief systems can influence human development across the lifespan.
• Analyze how socioeconomic conditions shape identity, opportunity, and outcomes over time.
• Evaluate how socialization processes create both continuity and change across generations.+ Show more

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• Explain how integrated evaluation connects theory, methods, evidence, and ethics to analyze complex social phenomena.
• Identify and justify multi-layer causal chains and conditional predictions in social research.
• Evaluate how continuity and change across time and culture affect interpretation and intervention.

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• Explain how contemporary social movements shape public attitudes and policy debates.
• Analyze the goals, strategies, and impacts of movements related to gender equality, racial justice, and climate change.
• Evaluate how evidence, media coverage, and civic participation influence movement outcomes.

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• Explain how unequal access to educational resources and opportunities can shape student outcomes over time.
• Analyze how tracking, curriculum bias, and neighborhood segregation contribute to unequal learning experiences.
• Evaluate how policy decisions and economic stratification can affect social mobility and civic participation.+ Show more