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Digitized Okanagan History: Photographs, Documents, all online
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- Grade Level
- K
- 1
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- Submitted By
- Allison Jones - 2 years ago
- Description
- The Digitized Okanagan History project provides o…
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- K
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- Allison Jones - 2 years ago
- Description
- The Digitized Okanagan History project provides online access to historical materials from BC's Southern Interior. We digitize photographs, documents, maps, newspapers, and other records held by local museums and archives. These are excellent materials for teaching about local history, the Okanagan region, primary sources, and other creative topics. Students can find images of the Okanagan from over 100 years ago to inspire their curiosity and complement their work.
- Subject
- Applied Skills
- Tourism
- Social Studies
- History
- Labour History
- Keywords
- archives
- primary sources
- local history
- Duration
- Any
- Language
- English
- Date Created
- May 18, 2018
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Indigenous Workers in the Early History of British Columbia
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- Lesson plan/Unit plan
- Grade Level
- 8
- 9
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- Labour History Project - 2 years ago
- Description
- Lesson activities of " Indigenous Workers in the …
- Resource Type
- Lesson plan/Unit plan
- Grade Level
- 8
- 9
- Submitted By
- Labour History Project - 2 years ago
- Description
- Lesson activities of " Indigenous Workers in the Early History of British Columbia” provide a comprehensive investigation into what is recalled of the role of Indigenous Peoples in the early economy of British Columbia and concludes with activities to re-examine those perceptions and to reassess how historical events are chronicled in the narrative of our past. 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
- Revised Curriculum
- Social Studies
- History
- Labour History
- Keywords
- historiography
- Economics
- Resource Industry
- curriculum competencies
- inquiry
- significance
- evidence
- continuity and change
- stereotypes
- First Nations
- ethical judgment
- URLs
- https://www.bctf.ca/uploadedFiles/POH/timelineENG.pdf
- 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 significance of people, places, events, or developments, and compare varying perspectives on their significance at particular times and places, and from group to group. (significance) Assess the justification for competing historical accounts after investigating points of contention, reliability of sources, and adequacy of evidence. (evidence) Compare and contrast continuities and changes for different groups at particular times and places. (continuity and change) Explain and infer different perspectives on past or present people, places, issues, or events by considering prevailing norms, values, worldviews, and beliefs. (perspective) Recognize implicit and explicit ethical judgments in a variety of sources. (ethical judgment) Make reasoned ethical judgments about actions in the past and present, and determine appropriate ways to remember and respond. (ethical judgment)
- Duration
- 1-6 lessons
- Language
- English
- Date Created
- Feb 21, 2019
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The Labour Movement in British Columbia 1840-2013
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- Lesson plan/Unit plan
- Worksheet
- Grade Level
- 10
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- Wayne Axford - 6 years ago
- Description
- The Labour Movement in British Columbia 1840-1914…
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- Lesson plan/Unit plan
- Worksheet
- Grade Level
- 10
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- Wayne Axford - 6 years ago
- Description
- The Labour Movement in British Columbia 1840-1914 and 1914-2013 can be used as background material for the Working People: A History of Labour in BC vignettes series hosted on the Knowledge Network. The articles are designed to be used individually in the Social Studies 10 and Social Studies 11 course. Teachers can supplement the reading activity with selected lessons from the Working People: A History of Labour in BC lessons that will be posted here. Additionally, the video series The Edge of the World: B.C.'s Early Years has a number of segments that compliment the reading for the 1840-1914 time period.
- Subject
- Cross-Curricular
- Social Justice
- Social Studies
- History
- Labour History
- Keywords
- First Nations
- Aboriginal People
- Child Labour
- Unions
- Strikes
- URLs
- https://www.knowledge.ca/program/working-people-history-labour-british-columbia
- https://youtu.be/_mco6Z-6xCk
- Learning Standards
- The materials address aspects of the key learning standards of the current social studies 10 and 11 curriculums. For Social Studies 10, critical thinking skills are applied throughout as well as research and writing skills as described in the “skills and processes of social studies”. Aspects of “Identity, Society and Culture” are addressed in the materials including gender roles, ethnicity and daily life as well the interactions of Aboriginal peoples in early Canada. Elements of the “Economy and Technology” learning outcomes are discussed in the examination of resource development and technological innovations. Additionally, aspects of the environmental impact and attitudes towards resource extraction are developed as they relate to the “Environment” learning outcome of the IRP. Regarding Social Studies 11, the areas of the “skills and processes of social studies” apply throughout as well as aspects of how Canadians can affect change at the federal and provincial levels of government. In the later examples of the reading the impact of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms are reflected in the work. The role of workers in both World War I and II and aspects of the “Autonomy and International Involvement” aspect of the IRP . The material can also be affectively applied to the “Society and Culture” of the curriculum addressing the development and impact of social policies and programs, the role of the labour movement in Canada and specifically the role of women in social, political and economic change in Canada.
- Duration
- 4 hours +
- Language
- English
- Date Created
- Aug 14, 2014
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Settling the West
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- Activity
- Grade Level
- 4
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- Erin Fields - 3 years ago
- Description
- This activity will involve analyzing three advert…
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- Activity
- Grade Level
- 4
- 5
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- 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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2874 downloads
Vignettes: Working People: A History of Labor in BC
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- Activity
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- 8
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- Wayne Axford - 6 years ago
- Description
- The vignettes in the series explore the historica…
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- Activity
- Grade Level
- 8
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- 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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