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Settling the West
- Resource Type
- Activity
- Grade Level
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- Submitted By
- Erin Fields - 3 years ago
- Description
- This activity will involve analyzing three advert…
- Resource Type
- Activity
- Grade Level
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- Submitted By
- Erin Fields - 3 years ago
- Description
- This activity will involve analyzing three advertisements from the Canadian Pacific Railway Company encouraging settlement in Manitoba. The purpose of this activity is to give your students practice in analyzing digital primary sources and to understand the context in which it was made. Incorporating sources from UBC Library’s Open Collections into your classroom can help students build their historical thinking through analyzing, contextualizing, and inferring using historical texts.
- Subject
- Social Studies
- History
- Keywords
- Primary Sources
- Settlement
- Canada
- Advertisements
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Manitoba
- Learning Standards
- Take stakeholders’ perspectives on issues, developments, or events by making inferences about their beliefs, values, and motivations (perspective) Ask questions, corroborate inferences, and draw conclusions about the content and origins of a variety of sources, including mass media (evidence)
- Duration
- 60 minutes+
- Language
- English
- Date Created
- Jan 10, 2018
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Vignettes: Working People: A History of Labor in BC
- Resource Type
- Activity
- Grade Level
- 8
- 9
- 10
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- 12
- Submitted By
- Wayne Axford - 6 years ago
- Description
- The vignettes in the series explore the historica…
- Resource Type
- Activity
- Grade Level
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
- Submitted By
- Wayne Axford - 6 years ago
- Description
- The vignettes in the series explore the historical perspectives on key labor issues of the late 19th and 20th century in British Columbia. Multiple perspectives of gender, ethnicity and social class are explored in the series as they relate to the labor history of British Columbia. Episodes are 2-3 minutes in length and are suitable for introduction and enrichment of the historical events and time periods. The content is appropriate for secondary classes but may also be used with intermediate grades as well.
- Subject
- Cross-Curricular
- Library and Information Systems
- Social Studies
- History
- Labour History
- Keywords
- Knowledge Network
- History
- First Nations
- Gold Rush
- Coal
- Fishers
- Child Labour
- Child Labor
- Pioneer
- Aboriginal
- On to Ottawa
- Bloody Sunday
- Strike
- Union
- Work place safety
- Japanese Canadians
- Solidarity
- Indo-Canadian
- Chinese Canadian
- Duration
- Vignettes are 2-3 minutes in length.
- Language
- English
- Date Created
- Jul 29, 2014
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