Below I have compiled a list of project ideas that myself and my classmates came up with in out Social Studies Pedagogy course.
Idea #1:
Time Frame: 1860-1889
Main Event: BC Joins Confederation
Grade: 5
Project Ideas:
Write persuasive paragraphs or have a debate about why BC should or should not join confederation.
Letters from workers on the CPR.
Work in groups and create newspaper articles of video news reports from one of the major events that led to BC joining confederation.
Events to look into:
CPR – Last Spike
Gold Rush
Canada forms confederation
Oregon Boundary Dispute
Resources:
Idea #2:
Time Frame: 1650-1699
Main Event: HBC Formed 1670/Fur Trade
Grade: 8/9
Project Ideas:
Role Play different perspectives of people involved in the fur trade.
Develop and ad for the HBC.
Develop a contract for the HBC.
Write a letter to the HBC from the first people’s perspective.
Create a class fur trade map.
Visit a museum or old fort.
Idea #3:
Time Frame: 1830-1859
Main Event: The creation and activity of Fort Langley (Birthplace of BC)
Grade: 4
Project/Activity Ideas:
Visit Fort Langley.
Have students take on the role if someone in the fort and create an informational project:
Journal
Skit
Presentation
Monologue
Diorama
Etc.
Resources:
Park CD website
Fort Langley website
Idea #4:
Time Frame: 1950-1979
Main Event: First Peoples are given the right to vote
Topics to Explore:
What it the right to Vote?
Why weren’t first peoples allowed to vote?
What is the Canadian Bill of Rights?
Grade: 5
Project Ideas:
Create a newspaper articles, etc. to present an event.
Hold a “mock vote.”
Comparing European & First Peoples' voting rights.
Resources:
Elections Canada
Idea #5:
Time Frame: 1982
Main Event: Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Grade: 5
Unit Overview:
Look at the charter of rights and freedoms and analyze it as a tiered assignment
Create your own class or school charter of rights and freedoms
Look into why it took so long
Idea #6:
Time Frame: 1920-1949
Main Event: Japanese Internment Camps
Grade: 6
Teaching Ideas:
Use interactive resources (videos, pictures, journals, etc.)
Do an activity about fitting your belongings into small spaces (empathy building)
Mini Trial
Explore locations of internments camps
Drama Activities
Research Project
1st person stories
Compare and contrast internment camps and residential schools
Resources:
Book - Japanese Canadians During the Second World War
Key Ideas:
Fairness
Empathy
Prejudice
Idea #7:
Timeframe: 1750-1799
Main Event: Northwest Company vs. HBC (The battle for trade routes and land)
Grade: 4
Activities:
Students create a game that exemplifies the struggle for territorial dominance between the two companies.
Students write journals from accounts of various people involved.
Resources:
Canadian Encyclopedia
Idea #8:
Timeframe: 1700-1749
Event: Treaty of Utrecht
The Treaty of Utrecht was signed in 1713 and brought to an end the War of Spanish Succession between England and France.
Grade: 4
Teaching Ideas:
½ the class make a newspaper report from the perspective of France and the other ½ make a newspaper from British perspective.
Resource:
CBC Website
Skills:
Explore the impact of bias on media.
Idea #9:
Timeframe: early 1800’s
Event: War of 1812
Grade: 5
Activities:
Look at different perspectives from each side and debate.
Parties (Americans, British, First Nations (on each side)).
Resources:
PBS.org
“The War of 1812 song” youtube
Idea #10:
Timeframe: 1890-1910
Event: Boer War
Canadians fought under British reign in South Africa.
Grade: 9
Activities:
Groups look at a major event from the war and do research on it then report back to the class and create a class timeline.
Resources:
BBC History Website
Idea #11:
Timeframe: 1600-1649
Event: Introductions of Smallpox to Canada
Grade: 6-8
Activities:
Explain/discuss how easily smallpox spreads.
Use beans of two different colours to demonstrate the spread of smallpox.
Link to modern diseases.
Resources:
American Pox- video by CGPGrey
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