Looking for resources that align with the NEW Grade 1 Alberta Social Studies curriculum?
Time and Place: Exploring Culture in Diverse Communities is your complete, ready-to-teach unit that helps your students understand the relationships between people, place, and time.
UPDATED in July 2025 to meet the latest KUSP outcomes!
This engaging resource is designed to help Grade 1 students explore their community, culture, and the world around them — while saving you hours of planning.
With real Alberta images, easy-to-use slides, hands-on activities, and meaningful connections to students’ lives, this resource helps young learners build cultural awareness and curiosity about the world. It’s perfect for creating a classroom where students make real-world connections and explore diverse perspectives.
Unit Focus:
Explore the dynamic relationship between people, place, and time in Alberta and beyond. Students investigate:
- What is the significance of places within communities?
- How can sharing cultures build connections between communities?
This resource promotes real-world learning, supports diverse perspectives, and encourages students to ask questions, explore ideas, and appreciate the cultures around them.
✅ What’s Inside:
- ✅ Overview of all Grade 1 Social Studies KUSPs
- ✅ Student-friendly "I Can" statements
- ✅ Visual journal prompts and reflection ideas
- ✅ Teacher planning guide (33 pages) with lesson extensions
- ✅ Teaching slides (153 slides) using real Alberta images, guides teaching and gives visual supports for those complex concepts. Gives a 'script' to follow when you're unsure of what to say next. Includes kid-friendly language.
- ✅ Student workbook (18 pages) aligned to the slides, with answer key
- ✅ Bonus activities: anchor charts, vocabulary cards, and sorting games (13 pages)
- ✅ Quick assessments for each outcome with answer key (18 pages)
- ✅ Links to online books and videos
- ✅ Curated websites for both students and teachers
- ✅ Virtual field trips around Alberta
- ✅ Culminating projects for reflection and celebration
Why Teachers Love It:
- Fully aligned with the NEW Alberta Social Studies curriculum (2025)
- Created by an Alberta teacher, for Alberta teachers
- Saves hours of planning time
- Engages students with real Alberta visuals to make those important connections
- Builds cultural understanding and empathy
- Builds student engagement with interactive, visual, and accessible materials
- Makes complex concepts clear and age-appropriate
- Encourages curiosity and community awareness
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
"Once again, another great resource by Mummabell! I am piloting the new curriculum this year and this resource has been a game changer! My students love completing the activities. Everything is also organized so well in the resource. Student pages, teacher pages, etc, all have their own seperate files for easy access. Thank you so much!" (TPT buyer)
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Reviews
★★★★★ Extremely satisfied
"students loved activities, great pictures and easy to use."
Heather W. (TPT Buyer)
Jul 31, 2025
★★★★★ Extremely satisfied
"Great comprehensive resource. Thanks for having them available to pilot and then edited to reflect the updated curriculum."
Courtney R. (TPT Buyer)
Jul 25, 2025
★★★★★ Extremely satisfied
"Thank you so much for tackling the new Alberta curriculum! This has made the daunting task of planning for a curriculum with little resources available!"
Larissa J. (TPT Buyer)
Mar 18, 2025
★★★★★ Extremely satisfied
We are excitedly awaiting the next unit. We have loved all the videos and engagement activities.
Stephanie M. (TPT Buyer)
Feb 19, 2025
★★★★★ Extremely satisfied
"Once again, another great resource by Mummabell! I am piloting the new curriculum this year and this resource has been a game changer! My students love completing the activities. Everything is also organized so well in the resource. Student pages, teacher pages, etc, all have their own seperate files for easy access. Thank you so much!"
Victoria Z. (TPT Buyer)
Oct 27, 2024