Social Studies 30 Unit Two Table of Contents

Activity One

The purpose of the activity is to help students understand that people construct and use models as a guide to understanding reality and that when they attempt to do something without a model it can become a very laborious process.

Activity Two

The purpose of the activity is to help students understand that Canadians in developing the Canadian economy selected a series of social and economic models that provided the basis for Canadian economic policy. Economic policy is a significant contributor to the Canadian way of life. Students need to understand that as time passed the patterns of behaviour established by economic policy became tradition in Canada and would only change under the pressure of natural, social, and technological forces.

Activity Three

The purpose of the activity is to help students gain experience evaluating economic models and to understand the role of political process plays in deciding which combination of economic models will be adopted by a society. A secondary, but significant objective of this activity is to give students hands on experience with the procedures of the Canadian Parliamentary process. This will be of great use to them in the succeeding units of this course.