History 30 Unit Three 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 International Events 1900 -1939
• Student Information Sheet: Chronology of Significant Domestic Events 1900 -1939

Activity One

This activity focuses on the concepts of sovereignty and foreign influence, and how the two concepts sometimes create tensions and challenges for the Canadian people. The activity also makes students aware of the significant influence other nations have had on Canada's history, and that those influences have had both positive and negative consequences for Canadians.

Activity Two

This activity provides students with an opportunity to investigate the relationship between Canada and Great Britain during the early years of the twentieth century. The activity demonstrates the relationship between foreign policy/actions and domestic affairs, and provides a rationale why governments seek to not have foreign policies endanger the unity of the nation.

Activity Three

This activity allows the students to investigate the relationship between international and domestic politics. The students will see that the actions of other nations can have serious consequences for the national well-being of the peoples of Canada. The historical issue examined is the relationship between Canada and Great Britain at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Activity Four

This concept application activity focuses on the issue of individual rights and protecting the national (collective) well-being. Students will investigate historical instances in which the rights of individuals were restricted, construct a criteria that could be used to determine whether a situation requires the suspension of individual and group rights, and have an opportunity to engage in a dialectical activity on this issue.

• Student Information Sheet: Co-operative Organizations In Saskatchewan - An Overview
• Student Information Sheet: Canada's Co-operatives - As Diverse as the Nation
• Student Information Sheet: The International Co-operative Alliance Statement on the Co-operative Identity

Activity Five

This activity allows provides students with an understanding that within Canadian society, there exists a competition among interest groups to influence the societal and national decision-making processes. Students will note that the regions of the nation often act as interest groups seeking to promote agendas that promote their region's well-being, and on occasions, the agendas of one region may be in opposition with the agendas of other regions. Such conflicts present a significant challenge for the political decision makers.

• Student Information Sheet: Government, Business and Labour at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
• Student Information Sheet: The Winnipeg General Strike

Activity Six

This activity provides students with an opportunity to investigate how external actions can influence the well-being of a region and the people within that region. The activity explores the role of government, at the international level, in securing a region's well-being, and discusses whether Canadians have a responsibility in securing the well-being of other Canadians in other regions of the nation.

• Student Information Sheet: Trade, Tariffs and National Well-being
• Student Information Sheet: Canadian Agriculture and the Vagaries of the Global Market
• Student Information Sheet: On-to-Ottawa Trek
• Student Information Sheet: Ideology, Government and the Social Disaster
• Student Information Sheet: The Depression and Incomes
• Student Information Sheet: Gross National Product, 1926-1939
• Student Information Sheet: Depression on the Prairies
• Student Information Sheet: Depression in the Maritimes and Central Canada
• Student Information Sheet: The C.C.F. and the Ideological Challenge from the Left
• Student Information Sheet: The C.C.F. and the Regina Manifesto

Activity Seven

This activity provides an opportunity for students to enhance their skills surrounding dialectical evaluation. Students will focus on the issue of the relationship between government and the well-being of the individual citizen and general citizenry.

• Student Information Sheet: A Case for Activist Government
• Student Information Sheet: The Merits of a Market-based Economy and Individual and Collective Well-being
• Student Information Sheet: The Rise of Neoconservatism and the Triumph of the Marketplace

Activity Eight

This activity focuses on the connection between foreign policy and domestic considerations. The historical focus is on Canadian foreign policy during the 1930s and the rationale for the policy of appeasement. Students have the opportunity to assume the role of foreign policy makers and will investigate how domestic considerations influences Canadian foreign policy.

Activity Nine

This activity allows students an opportunity to identify and apply the concepts of nationalism, imperialism, and continentalism, to the early decades of the twentieth century. The activity will also allow students to apply those concepts to contemporary Canadian events and issues.

• Student Information Sheet: Reform Liberalism, and John Maynard Keynes

Activity Ten

This activity allows students to discuss how the ideologies of classical liberalism, reform liberalism, and democratic socialism, address the issue of societal responsibility for the well-being of the individual citizen. Students also have the opportunity to apply the ideological "prescriptions" to contemporary issues facing Canadians.

• Student Information Sheet: Ideological Perspectives: The Case of Unemployment
• Student Information Sheet: The Battle for Universal Medical Care
• Student Information Sheet: Community Clinics: A Response to the Medical Care Crisis

Activity Eleven

This activity provides an opportunity to discuss the responsibilities of the individual and of the collective society, in securing the well-being of the individual citizen. Students are to discuss and identify what services and opportunities are critical to securing the well-being of the individual citizen, and who is responsible for securing those services and opportunities.