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Description: Lesson activities to accompany the vignette "Farmworkers” from the acclaimed Knowledge Network series; Working People: A History of Labour in British Columbia produced by Landrock Entertainment. The vignette examines the British Columbian farmworkers whose work largely fell outside the protections of B.C. labour legislation and the efforts the Canadian Farmworkers’ Union to organize farmworkers and to provide them with the protections afforded to other labourers in the province . This is a unit created by the Labour History Project, a group of retired and current British Columbia teachers collaborating to develop a series of lesson plans, activities, and workshops focused on labour studies and labour history. See: https://www.labourheritagecentre.ca/educate/

Subject: Cross-Curricular; Social Justice; Social Studies; History; Labour History

Keywords: British Columbia; Union; Strike; WorkSafeBC; Raj Chouhan; South Asians; Charan Gill

URLs: https://www.labourheritagecentre.ca/educate/; https://www.labourheritagecentre.ca

Learning Standards: Use Social Studies inquiry processes and skills to: ask questions; gather, interpret, and analyze ideas; and communicate findings and decisions Assess the justification for competing historical accounts after investigating points of contention, reliability of sources, and adequacy of evidence (evidence) Assess how prevailing conditions and the actions of individuals or groups affect events, decisions, and developments (cause and consequence) Explain how Canadians can effect change at the federal and provincial levels Assess the development and impact of Canadian social policies and programs related to immigration, the welfare state, and minority rights Describe the role of women in terms of social, political, and economic change in Canada

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Description: Introduce some poverty facts about BC, and get the class involved in the following activity to demonstrate inequality.

Learning Standards: - To learn and think critically about the issues of poverty and homelessness, including inequality in a local and provincial context. - To look at long term, concrete ways to work toward more equitable distribution and the elimination of poverty

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justicenotcharitylessonplan.pdf	application/pdf

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