History 30 Unit Two 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 Constitution Act of 1791 To Confederation
• Student Information Sheet: Growth of Democracy 1660 - 1867

Activity One

This concept application activity focuses on the activity of interest groups, in contemporary Canadian society, and those involved in the process leading to Confederation. The activity focuses on the ability of regions, acting on interest groups, to influence national decision making.

• Student Information Sheet: Attributes of Regional Power and Influence

Activity Two

This activity provides students with an opportunity to define the agendas of the major groups and regions involved in negotiations leading to Confederation. The students have an opportunity to engage a Confederation simulation in which they represent those major groups and regions.

Activity Three

This activity allows students to explore the operation of interest groups within contemporary Canadian decision making. It also explores the impact of the interest groups to the ability of individual citizens to seek influence on societal and national decision making.

Activity Four

This activity provides an opportunity for students to enhance their skills of dialectical evaluation. They will involve themselves in the debate within francophone Quebec, as to whether that colony and population should enter into a political union with the other colonies of British North America.

• Student Information Sheet: English - French Relations From the Colonial Period to Riel
• Student Information Sheet: Dialectical Evaluation Model
• Student Worksheet: Dialectical Evaluation Model
• Student Information Sheet: The Concept of Moral Testing
• Student Information Sheet: Confederation and the Structure of the New Nation
• Student Information Sheet: Economic Evolution - Pre-Contact Period to the National Policy

Activity Five

This concept application activity provides an opportunity for students to investigate the influence of significant other nations on the course of Canadian history. This activity focuses on the external relationship between British North America, the United States and Great Britain during the American Civil War.

• Student Information Sheet: "From Sea to Sea" - The Making of a New Nation

Activity Six

This concept development activity provides an opportunity for students to identify the objectives of the National Policy, the persons and groups involved in designing the Policy and investigate some of the consequences of that policy for the regions of the nation.

Activity Seven

This activity allows students to role-play the position of Prime Minister of the new nation of Canada. Students will have an opportunity to articulate the challenges and "achievements" of the peoples of British North America, as they enter into the Dominion of Canada.

• Student Information Sheet: Métis Bill of Rights - Major Demands
• Student Information Sheet: Canadian Women at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century

Activity Eight

This activity provides students with an opportunity to apply the major attributes of a parliamentary democracy to contemporary conditions. Students can debate whether those attributes have been fully realized and identify what factors "work against" the realization of those attributes.

Activity Nine

This activity provides the students with a review of the key concepts and themes presented in Unit One and Unit Two. Students will have the opportunity to connect major events and policies that influenced the peoples of Canada from the contact period to Confederation. The activity allows students to "link" historic events to contemporary issues and concerns.

• Student Information Sheet: Major Themes and Developments During the Colonial Period