History 30 Unit One Table of Contents

Activities, Student Information Sheets, Worksheets, Timelines and Maps

The following activities focus on specific concepts and provide instructional assistance for teachers. The student information sheets and timelines provide background information on specific topics, issues and events, within the theme and chronology of the unit. The worksheets provide guided instruction and organization for students working on concept development and application activities.

• Student Information Sheet: Chronology of Significant Events - Pre-Contact to the War of 1812
• Student Information Sheet: Economic Evolution - Pre-Contact Period to the National Policy
• Student Information Sheet: Growth of Democracy 1660-1867

Activity One

This concept development activity provides students with an opportunity to examine the contemporary assumptions and practices surrounding four key societal relationships.

• Student Information Sheet: The Concept of World View and Social Contract

Activity Two

This concept application activity allows students to gain an understanding of the paradigms and assumptions that guided the actions of the 16th and 17th European societies. The activity allows students to compare those assumptions with contemporary Canadian societal assumptions.

• Student Information Sheet: Forces Promoting Colonization

Activity Three

This activity provides students with an awareness of key attributes found in constitutions and how they impact the rights of the citizenry to influence societal decision making. The activity offers a comparison of contemporary decision-making processes with historical assumptions and practices surrounding societal decision making.

• Student Information Sheet: The Iroquois Confederacy and the Great Law
• Student Information Sheet: Profound Consequences - The Beothuks and Acadians

Activity Four

This concept development lesson provides the students with an awareness of the geographic diversity of the nation, and the influence of geographic and climactic factors of the lives of past, present and future generations of Canadians. The activity also focuses on the impact of technology has on the well-being of the environment.

Activity Five

This concept application activity provides the students with an historical perspective of the assumptions and paradigms, concerning the land and its resources, held by succeeding generations of Canadians. It also highlights the important relationship between the technological resources a society possesses and the society's relationship with the land.

• Student Worksheet: First Nations' Assumptions Concerning the Land
• Student Worksheet: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century European Paradigms Concerning the Land
• Student Worksheet: Paradigms and Assumptions that produced the National Plan
• Student Worksheet: Contemporary Canadian Assumptions and Practices Related to the Land
• Student Worksheet: Assumptions and Practices To Ensure the Well-being of Canadians in the 21st Century

Activity Six

This activity is intended to provide students with an understanding of the dialectical reasoning process. Students are provided with a "model" structures that could be used when engaged in the process. A contemporary issue is used to demonstrate the dialectical process.

• Student Information Sheet: Dialectical Evaluation Model
• Student Worksheet: Dialectical Evaluation Model
• Student Information Sheet: Concept Map of Smoking Issue
• Student Information Sheet: Cigarette Smoking: The Issues and Competing Viewpoints
• Student Worksheet: Factual Testing of Value Claims
• Student Information Sheet: The Concept of Moral Testing
• Student Information Sheet: Applying Moral Tests to Everyday Situations
• Student Worksheet: Moral Tests and Everyday Situations
• Student Worksheet: Value Claims and Moral Testing

Activity Seven

This concept attainment activity provides students with an opportunity to apply the dialectical evaluation model to Canadian history. The dialectic focus on the relationships that evolved among the peoples of present-day Canada during the contact and early colonial period of Canadian history.

• Student Information Sheet: The Iroquoian World View
• Student Information Sheet: The French World View
• Student Information Sheet: The French Canadian World View
• Student Information Sheet: The British World View
• Student Information Sheet: French-British Contact
• Student Information Sheet: Challenges of Conquest
• Student Information Sheet: The Royal Proclamation and the Quebec Act
• Student Information Sheet: The Constitutional Act of 1791
• Student Information Sheet: The British Conquest and The First Nations
• Student Worksheet: Dialectical Evaluation On Policy During the Early Contact and Colonial Periods

Activity Eight

This concept application activity focuses on the decision-making processes that governed 16th and 17th century European society and the Iroquois Confederacy. The activity provides students with an opportunity to explore how a society's world view will influence its relations with other societies and peoples.

Activity Nine

The concept application activity provides students with an opportunity to explore the challenges associated with living in a diverse society. Students will explore the social relationship of different peoples living within one political society.

• Student Information Sheet: The War of 1812: Resistance and Survival

Activity Ten

This concept application activity allows students to gain a greater understanding to the concept of responsible government. They have the opportunity to gain an understanding, through role playing, of the events and situations that led to the implementation of responsible government.

• Student Information Sheet: Causes of Discontent in Upper Canada
• Student Information Sheet: Nineteenth Century Government and Decision Making in British North America
• Student Information Sheet: Rebellion in Lower Canada
• Student Information Sheet: The Achievement of Responsible Government - The Rebellion Losses Bill
• Student Information Sheet: The Reform Movement in the Canadas

Activity Eleven

This concept application activity provides students with a comparison of the ability of Canadians, in the early nineteenth century, and Canadians, today, to influence societal decision making. Students will assume the role of interest groups in both the historical and contemporary settings.