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Curriculum expectations
A1— analyse some significant interrelationships between Earth’s physical features and processes and human settlement patterns, and some ways in which the physical environment and issues of sustainability may affect settlement in the future (FOCUS ON: Interrelationships)A2— use the geographic inquiry process to investigate issues related to the interrelationship between human settlement and sustainability from a geographic perspective (FOCUS ON: Geographic Perspective; Interrelationships)A3— demonstrate an understanding of significant patterns and trends related to human settlement and of ways in which human settlement affects the environment (FOCUS ON: Patterns and Trends; Spatial Significance)
Lessons
- Why was the city placed there?How the physical environment, here a river in flood, can shape where people settle (A1.1, A3.2).
- How did people change the land?How settlement has changed land and water, seen through a dug waterway and a garrison town (A3.5).
- Who may use the land?Land-use questions and how different groups answered them, seen through conquered farmland and the space of a city's markets (A3.3).
- When a dam failsHow a process of the physical environment can change where people can live, seen through one past case (A1.2).
Brief
Strand A of Grade 8 Geography: Global Settlement: Patterns and Sustainability. The museum teaches five of its sixteen specific expectations, in four lessons: where cities are placed, how people changed the land, who uses the land, and a dam that failed. The rest are in the gap register. 1
Sources
- The Ontario Curriculum: Social Studies, Grades 1 to 6; History and Geography, Grades 7 and 8 (2023)
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islam.museum contributors. “Strand A: Global Settlement: Patterns and Sustainability”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/course/ca-on-g8-geography-a/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-12.
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