History 30 Unit Four 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 External Events - 1945 - 1990.
• Student Information Sheet: Chronology of Significant Domestic Events - 1945 - 1990.

Activity One

This activity allows students to gain an understanding of how events associated with, and following, the Second World War, were to influence the relationship between Canada and the United States. Students will focus on how the "Cold War" dominated international politics for nearly five decades, and influenced the Canadian foreign policy and defense decision making.

• Student Information Sheet: The Cold War.

Activity Two

This activity provides students with an opportunity to examine the concepts of national sovereignty and collective security. Students will gain awareness that a nation's desire to maintain sovereignty over its national decision making and secure its well-being can be in opposition to the principle and goal of collective security.

• Student Information Sheet: Overview of Canada's External Affairs and Policies.

Activity Three

This activity allows students to explore the issue of foreign investment, foreign influence, and the consequences of the high degree of foreign ownership, within specific sectors of the Canadian economy. Students have an opportunity to engage in the debate over the positive and negative consequences of foreign ownership in Canada.

• Student Information Sheet: Percentage of Foreign Ownership by Sector, 1992.
• Student Information Sheet: The Debate Over Foreign Ownership.
• Student Information Sheet; The Recording Industry in Canada.

Activity Four

This concept application activity provides students with an opportunity to identify the link between foreign policy and the well-being of Canadians. The activity focuses on the issue of applying a nation's human rights record as part of a criteria to determine Canada's relationship with that nation.

• Student Worksheet: The Consequences of Implementing International Sanctions.

Activity Five

This concept development activity provides students with an opportunity to engage in a dialectical activity focusing on the role ethics and human rights play in the formulation of Canadian foreign and trade policies. Students are given the opportunity to discuss the consequences of applying certain "standards" in the formation and implementation of trade and economic policies.

• Student Information Sheet: Human Rights and Trade.
• Student Information Sheet: Linking Human Rights with Foreign Relations.
• Student Information Sheet: The Limits of Linking Trade and Human Rights.

Activity Six

This concept attainment activity focuses on the relationship and factors that influence relationships between populations. Students will gain an appreciation that a group's historical experiences will influence its contemporary assumptions and practices towards other groups.

Activity Seven

This activity focuses on the issue of minority rights and the collective well-being, and whether the two concepts are compatible. Students will investigate the assumptions and actions that are governing relations among the different cultural and linguistic populations of the province of Quebec.

Activity Eight

This activity provides students with an opportunity to use the skills of dialectical thinking and evaluation to explore the issue of Quebec and its relationship within the Canadian community. The sub-issue of minority and collective rights is also a focus of this activity.

• Student Information Sheet: The Politics of Language.
• Student Information Sheet: Quebec and Canada: Realities Impacting the Relationship.
• Student Information Sheet: A Case for Federalism.
• Student Information Sheet: A Case for Quebec Sovereignty.
• Student Worksheet: Dialectical Evaluation Model.