Teaching the NEW 2025 Grade 2 Alberta Social Studies curriculum?

Citizenship: Choices and Voices is a complete, easy-to-use unit that helps your Grade 2 students understand how people make decisions together — from discussing different perspectives to simulating real decision-making in communities.
 
This resource is fully aligned to all Citizenship Grade 2 KUSPs and saves you hours of planning. It’s designed by an Alberta teacher to be age-appropriate, engaging, and curriculum-accurate.
 
Guiding Question: How can people come together to make decisions?
Lessons at a Glance:
Lesson 1: Facts vs. Opinions
Lesson 2: How Decisions Are Made
Lesson 3: Why Communities Make Decisions
Lesson 4: Understanding Perspectives
Lesson 5: Listening and Discussing Respectfully
Lesson 6: Decision-Making Simulation (Culminating Activity)
 
What’s Included:
✅ Overview of all Grade 2 Social Studies KUSPs
✅ “I Can” statements in student-friendly language
✅ Teacher information pack with extended learning ideas (15 pages)
✅ 93 teaching slides to guide each lesson
✅ Student workbook (23 pages) aligned with slides
✅ Extra resources: anchor charts, Tier 3 vocabulary cards, sorting games (17 pages
)✅ Quick, 1-page assessments for every lesson (12 pages)
✅ Answer keys included
✅ Online video and read-aloud links
✅ Curated websites for both teachers and students
✅ Visual journal prompts for reflection and creativity
 
Why Teachers Love It:
-Fully aligned to the 2025 Alberta Social Studies curriculum for Grade 2
-Supports inquiry-based, collaborative, and visual learning
-Makes complex concepts like perspective and decision-making easy to teach
-Includes everything needed for assessment and reporting
-Great for building student voice, listening skills, and civic awareness


Reviews

★★★★★  Extremely satisfied
With the new social curriculum, it is nice knowing I have a resource that will cover the curriculum in full and I can add extras as I need
Brittany P.
May 20, 2025

★★★★  Very satisfied
This was helpful when piloting the new curriculum.
Jordana B.
Apr 14, 2025

★★★★★  Extremely satisfied
These resources are always well done and helpful; I appreciate all that is included in the units.
Kara L.
Apr 6, 2025