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Description: The Grade 5 and 10 Bamboo Shoots unit is a comprehensive and flexible teaching resource designed to help you bring Chinese Canadian history alive in your classroom. The unit contains adaptable lesson plans, blackline masters, and rubrics—as well as a timeline building game, relevant stories, and a rich collection of historical photographs and archival documents.

Subject: Cross-Curricular; Social Justice; Teaching Strategies; Social Studies; History

Keywords: historical wrongs; Chinese Canadian History; Chinese Immigration; Late 19th to Early 20th century; government; BC history

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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