Unit 5 Outcomes:
9.5.1 Identify and analyse the economic challenges and opportunities that may affect Canada’s future
9.5.2 Analyse the political challenges and opportunities that may affect Canada’s future
9.5.3 Analyse the social and cultural challenges and opportunities that may affect Canada’s future
Issues that may be discussed: Climate change, refugees, fossil fuels, green energy, forestry, Official Languages Commissioner, NAFTA, free trade, election hacking, social media trolls influencing elections, government service to rural communities, equal representation in government, marijuana legalization.
9.5.2 Analyse the political challenges and opportunities that may affect Canada’s future
9.5.3 Analyse the social and cultural challenges and opportunities that may affect Canada’s future
Issues that may be discussed: Climate change, refugees, fossil fuels, green energy, forestry, Official Languages Commissioner, NAFTA, free trade, election hacking, social media trolls influencing elections, government service to rural communities, equal representation in government, marijuana legalization.
Theme 1: Population Challenges and Opportunities
Population Growth - p.246
Terms - birth rate, death rate, natural increase, net migration, dependency load
Page 251 - questions 1-3 Review and Reflect.
1. Brainstorm the challenge of dependency load. What could it mean for your future? List and explain five ways that your lives might be more challenging than your parents' lives.
2. Brainstorm possible solutions to the challenges you identified in the first question. As a class, decide on the most effective solutions to these challenges.
3. If certain challenges must be met by an aging population in Canada, are there also opportunities? Work with your group to list three possible economic benefits of an older population.
Apply and Extend - choose one question from the list and answer it in detail by doing research.
1. Select one period in Canadian History: World War 1, World War 2, the Great Depression, that might have affected population growth. Investigate the period to see what its effect was, if any.
2. Statistics Canada makes predictions of population changes. Obtain age and gender population predictions for one of the following years: 2021, 2026, or 2036 available from Statistics Canada. Draw a population pyramid using these statistics, that is in a format for classroom display.
Population Growth - p.246
Terms - birth rate, death rate, natural increase, net migration, dependency load
Page 251 - questions 1-3 Review and Reflect.
1. Brainstorm the challenge of dependency load. What could it mean for your future? List and explain five ways that your lives might be more challenging than your parents' lives.
2. Brainstorm possible solutions to the challenges you identified in the first question. As a class, decide on the most effective solutions to these challenges.
3. If certain challenges must be met by an aging population in Canada, are there also opportunities? Work with your group to list three possible economic benefits of an older population.
Apply and Extend - choose one question from the list and answer it in detail by doing research.
1. Select one period in Canadian History: World War 1, World War 2, the Great Depression, that might have affected population growth. Investigate the period to see what its effect was, if any.
2. Statistics Canada makes predictions of population changes. Obtain age and gender population predictions for one of the following years: 2021, 2026, or 2036 available from Statistics Canada. Draw a population pyramid using these statistics, that is in a format for classroom display.
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Now that we understand one challenge, let's try to make a list of other challenges and opportunities.
1) Brainstorm on chart paper as a class.
2) Fill out a series of K-W-L-H charts about these issues. KWLH Chart on Google Docs.
3) Choose one of these challenges and research the factors that make it complex, and look for full or partial solutions.
Spend Time in the Computer Lab or searching digital sources, to answer these questions:
1) Brainstorm on chart paper as a class.
2) Fill out a series of K-W-L-H charts about these issues. KWLH Chart on Google Docs.
3) Choose one of these challenges and research the factors that make it complex, and look for full or partial solutions.
Spend Time in the Computer Lab or searching digital sources, to answer these questions:
- What is the challenge or opportunity you are working on?
- What are the major issues / factors that make this a complex problem?
- What solutions do you have? Full or partial?
After that, watch "Living on One Dollar" as an example of extreme poverty, then ask the same questions as above, with the addition of this question:
What solutions in the documentary might work here in Canada?
Formulate the answers to these questions into a written piece (roughly three paragraphs), about the lessons learned from watching the documentary.
Aboriginal Issues in Canada
Resource List:
8 Key Issues for Aboriginal People in Canada - ICT
Aboriginal Issues - Social Justice
21 Things You May Not Have Known about the Indian Act - ICT
Reserve Clean Water Issues - ICT
On-Reserve Housing Issues - ICT
Aboriginal Incarceration Rates - Globe and Mail
Top 5 Indigenous Issues All Canadians Should Care About - APTN
Canada Not Doing Enough on Issues Facing Indigenous Women - CBC
Want Common Ground in First Nations Issues, Start by Fixing the Water Supply - Macleans
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women - CBC
8 Key Issues for Aboriginal People in Canada - ICT
Aboriginal Issues - Social Justice
21 Things You May Not Have Known about the Indian Act - ICT
Reserve Clean Water Issues - ICT
On-Reserve Housing Issues - ICT
Aboriginal Incarceration Rates - Globe and Mail
Top 5 Indigenous Issues All Canadians Should Care About - APTN
Canada Not Doing Enough on Issues Facing Indigenous Women - CBC
Want Common Ground in First Nations Issues, Start by Fixing the Water Supply - Macleans
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women - CBC
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Activities
Watch Reconciliation and Education - Starleigh Grass.
Watch the Walter Paul Video and write a reflection expressing your thoughts and opinions about the issues presented in the video. Important ideas to consider: Indian Day School, wall of shame, loss of language, Tools of Assimilation (the strap, the Indian Act, Dick and Jane books, Catechism of Catholic Church.
Why do all students need to learn about First Nations peoples, culture and history?
Watch - Understanding Aboriginal Identity
1) What is the Indian Act? What does it do?
2) When you watch this video what do think are the problems when dealing with the idea of Aboriginal Identity?
3) What do you now know about the Residential School System?
4) What have you learned about the Metis?
Watch the Walter Paul Video and write a reflection expressing your thoughts and opinions about the issues presented in the video. Important ideas to consider: Indian Day School, wall of shame, loss of language, Tools of Assimilation (the strap, the Indian Act, Dick and Jane books, Catechism of Catholic Church.
Why do all students need to learn about First Nations peoples, culture and history?
Watch - Understanding Aboriginal Identity
1) What is the Indian Act? What does it do?
2) When you watch this video what do think are the problems when dealing with the idea of Aboriginal Identity?
3) What do you now know about the Residential School System?
4) What have you learned about the Metis?
Final Assessment Piece
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