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Buck Suzuki: Working People: A History of Labour in BC - Labour History Project, Episode 3 Lesson Materials 3
- Resource Type
- Lesson Plan
- Grade Level
- 10
- 11
- 12
- Submitted By
- Labour History Project - 4 months ago
- Description
- Lesson activities to accompany the vignette "Buck…
- Resource Type
- Lesson Plan
- Grade Level
- 10
- 11
- 12
- Submitted By
- Labour History Project - 4 months ago
- Description
- Lesson activities to accompany the vignette "Buck Suzuki” from the acclaimed Knowledge Network series; Working People: A History of Labour in British Columbia produced by Landrock Entertainment. The lesson examines the life Buck Suzuki who championed the rights of Japanese Canadian Fishermen and who was also an early advocate for the environmental protection of Salmon resources and habitat. The vignette is set within the context of the Internment of the Japanese Canadians during the Second World War. 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: http://www.labourheritagecentre.ca/education/lesson-plans/
- Subject
- Revised Curriculum
- Cross-Curricular
- Social Justice
- Social Studies
- History
- Labour History
- Keywords
- Environment
- Fishing
- Cannery
- Internment
- Racism
- Prejudice
- United Fishermen’s Union
- Second World War
- British Columbia
- social justice
- Law 12
- Learning Standards
- To be able to describe the consequences of social injustice based on race and ethnicity. (cause and consequence) To analyze the role of individual citizens in promoting social justice in Canada. (significance) To understand how Japanese internment impacted lives during and after the Second World War. (continuity and change) To be aware of how individuals can provide leadership as agent for change in such matters as environmental policy. (significance)
- Duration
- 15-90 minutes
- Language
- English
- Date Created
- Oct 15, 2018
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210 downloads
Home Front, Work Front: Working People: A History of Labour in BC - Labour History Project, Episode 3 Lesson Materials 4
- Resource Type
- Lesson Plan
- Grade Level
- 10
- 11
- 12
- Submitted By
- Labour History Project - 5 months ago
- Description
- Lesson activities to accompany the vignette "Home…
- Resource Type
- Lesson Plan
- Grade Level
- 10
- 11
- 12
- Submitted By
- Labour History Project - 5 months ago
- Description
- Lesson activities to accompany the vignette "Home Front, Work Front” from the acclaimed Knowledge Network series; Working People: A History of Labour in British Columbia produced by Landrock Entertainment. The lesson examines the working life of at the Burrard Dry Dock during the Second World War, when women entered the workforce in unheard of numbers. Additional lesson material deals with photographic and poster material related to women’s roles in the war effort. 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: http://www.labourheritagecentre.ca/education/lesson-plans/
- Subject
- Revised Curriculum
- Cross-Curricular
- Social Justice
- Social Studies
- History
- Labour History
- Keywords
- shipbuilding
- photograph analysis
- Rosie the Riveter
- Labour History
- British Columbia
- evidence
- 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)
- Duration
- 15 minutes and up to 120 minutes
- Language
- English
- Date Created
- Aug 31, 2018
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Age of Steamers
- Resource Type
- Activity
- Classroom printables
- Lesson Plan
- Worksheet
- Grade Level
- 9
- Submitted By
- Labour History Project - 9 months ago
- Description
- Lesson activities to accompany the vignette "Age …
- Resource Type
- Activity
- Classroom printables
- Lesson Plan
- Worksheet
- Grade Level
- 9
- Submitted By
- Labour History Project - 9 months ago
- Description
- Lesson activities to accompany the vignette "Age of Steamers” from the acclaimed Knowledge Network series; Working People: A History of Labour in British Columbia produced by Landrock Entertainment. In a province as vast as British Columbia, the focus in this film is the introduction of sternwheelers and steamships that allowed greater movement and mobility and how they impacted the development of the colony and province in the Gold Rush era and beyond. 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: http://www.labourheritagecentre.ca/education/lesson-plans/
- Subject
- Revised Curriculum
- Social Studies
- Geography
- History
- Labour History
- Keywords
- Age of Steamers
- Steamships
- Paddlewheelers
- Labour History
- Working People
- British Columbia
- Vignette
- Okanagan Lake
- Kootenay Lake
- Learning Standards
- The materials address aspects of the key learning standards of the current social studies 9 curriculum. Critical thinking skills are applied throughout as well as research and writing skills as described in the “Social studies inquiry processes and skills”. Aspects of historical significance, continuity and change and perspective are addressed in the materials as they examine the impact of transportation innovation in British Columbia and the impact it had on community development.
- Duration
- 15-90 minutes
- Language
- English
- Date Created
- May 3, 2018
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Japanese Internment Camps in British Columbia
- Resource Type
- Activity
- Grade Level
- 6
- 7
- 8
- Submitted By
- Erin Fields - one year ago
- Description
- This activity will involve four photographs taken…
- Resource Type
- Activity
- Grade Level
- 6
- 7
- 8
- Submitted By
- Erin Fields - one year ago
- Description
- This activity will involve four photographs taken of Japanese Canadians during WWII internment in British Columbia. The purpose of this activity is for your students to develop their own historical questions from primary sources, using outside sources for contextual information, and formulating answers to their questions based on the information available. This activity will build students historical thinking through analyzing, contextualizing, and inferring using historical texts.
- Subject
- Social Studies
- History
- Keywords
- Primary Sources
- Images
- Japanese
- Internment Camps
- Slocan City
- British Columbia
- Learning Standards
- Sequence objects, images, or events, and recognize the positive and negative aspects of continuities and changes in the past and present (continuity and change) Differentiate between short- and long-term causes, and intended and unintended consequences, of events, decisions, or developments (cause and consequence) Take stakeholders’ perspectives on issues, developments, or events by making inferences about their beliefs, values, and motivations (perspective) Make ethical judgments about events, decisions, or actions that consider the conditions of a particular time and place, and assess appropriate ways to respond(ethical judgment)
- Duration
- 60 minutes+
- Language
- English
- Date Created
- Jan 12, 2018
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144 downloads
Chinese Head Tax and Immigration Act of 1885
- Resource Type
- Activity
- Grade Level
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- Submitted By
- Erin Fields - one year ago
- Description
- This activity will involve analyzing textual prim…
- Resource Type
- Activity
- Grade Level
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- Submitted By
- Erin Fields - one year ago
- Description
- This activity will involve analyzing textual primary sources about Chinese immigration during the mid to late 1800s in Canada. The purpose of this activity is to give students practice in analyzing digital primary sources, to understand the context in which the sources were made, and to investigate the causes and consequences of opinions and actions on economic, political, social, and cultural historical practices. 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
- Chinese Head Tax
- British Columbia
- Chinese Immigration
- Immigration Act of 1885
- Primary Sources
- Head Teax
- Learning Standards
- Sequence objects, images, or events, and recognize the positive and negative aspects of continuities and changes in the past and present (continuity and change) Differentiate between short- and long-term causes, and intended and unintended consequences, of events, decisions, or developments (cause and consequence) Take stakeholders’ perspectives on issues, developments, or events by making inferences about their beliefs, values, and motivations (perspective) Make ethical judgments about events, decisions, or actions that consider the conditions of a particular time and place, and assess appropriate ways to respond(ethical judgment)
- Duration
- 60 minutes+
- Language
- English
- Date Created
- Jan 12, 2018
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