CHV2O Unit 5: Civic Engagement and Service

Students judge the significance of civic contributions by Canadians such as Terry Fox, Viola Desmond, Thérèse Casgrain, Shannen Koostachin, Rick Hansen and Autumn Peltier, and by people and organizations around the world. They learn four ways to act for the common good (volunteering, advocacy, consumer choices and peaceful protest), compare direct service with systemic change, and use data and a school audit to ask whose voices are represented and valued. They study national symbols and a range of commemorations, from Canada Day and the Fête nationale to the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Emancipation Day, Holocaust Remembrance and Holodomor Memorial Day, treating pride and critical remembrance together. They practise checking civic information online, choose the right tool and decision-maker to make their voices heard, and plan service that matches their strengths, including the 40 hours of community involvement. The summative, the Service and Recognition Project, asks them to plan and pitch a service opportunity or a commemoration.

Assessment of learning: Service and Recognition Project: plan a service opportunity or a commemoration for your community, explaining its significance and who it serves.

Lessons

1. People Who Made a Difference
2. Acting for the Common Good
3. Whose Voices Count?
4. Pride and Commemoration
5. Making Your Voice Heard
6. Serving Your Community

What you get

• A teacher lesson plan for every lesson: curriculum expectations, learning goals and success criteria, a timed sequence, differentiation, look-fors and answer guides
• Detailed slideshows (15 to 18 slides per lesson) with speaker notes on every slide: what to say, what to ask, what to look for and how long to spend, plus warm-ups, worked examples, model answers and answer-key slides
• Student handouts, organizers and exit tickets, with original scenarios and examples
• Editable Word and PowerPoint files, plus PDFs
• A unit overview and the summative task with a rubric and teacher guide

Built for the Ontario curriculum (Civics and Citizenship, Grade 10, Open, CHV2O, revised 2022) and Ontario's 2026 evaluation policy (65% classroom work, 20% final exam, 15% attendance and participation), and easy to adapt for any Canadian civics course.

Need just one lesson? Single lessons from this unit will also be available for CA$3.99 each.