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History: Lessons
Intermediate Secondary Archived lessons
Intermediate (covers senior elementary to junior high)
- Counting Canadians: Examine historical records—winter counts of Plains Indians, Jean Talon's colonial census—and current data on Canadians; then create your own survey!
- Lesson using Censuses of Canada, 1665 to 1871
- Role playing Jean Talon: Review 1665-1666 census data collected by Jean Talon and try to convince the King of France to increase investment in New France.
- Lessons using Canada Year Book Historical Collection, 1867 to 1967
- Changing families and households: Examine trends in family size and consumer behaviour and draw conclusions.
- Lives of men and women: Follow the increasing trend in infant survival.
- Occupations: Uncover workers' issues during different periods of the 20th century.
- Economic gains: Examine changes in wages and play the role of a human resources officer during the first half of the 20th century.
- The Great Depression: Explore effects of the Great Depression on Canadians' lives.
- Communications: Examine how communications methods developed.
- Ethnocultural diversity: Discover the origins of today's multicultural society.
- Provinces and manufacturing: Explore the manufacturing heartland, 1900 to 1964.
- Immigration and emigration: Connect waves of immigration to push and pull factors.
- Canada at war: Investigate the human and financial costs of the world wars.
- Counting Canadians: Examine historical records—winter counts of Plains Indians, Jean Talon's colonial census—and current data on Canadians; then create your own survey!
- Lessons using Censuses of Canada, 1665 to 1871
- Analysis of a colonial industry, shipbuilding in Nova Scotia 1861: Draw conclusions from the data.
- Chinese immigrants in British Columbia, 1870: Examine the numbers and research their life experiences.
- 20th Century: 100 years of Canadian Society Teacher's Kit
Explore changes in immigration, labour force, families, education, health, urban development and household income and expenditures. - Lessons using Canada Year Book Historical Collection 1867 to 1967
- Changing families and households: Research evolving families of different periods and regions.
- Lives of men and women: Examine population and education changes and present dramatic tableaux of daily life in different periods.
- Occupations: Research occupations and labour force issues of the 20th Century and of today.
- Economic gains: Write a report on Canada's economic growth from 1867 to 1967.
- The Great Depression: Role play a 1936 family creating a household budget.
- Communications: Create a timeline for specific modes of communication.
- Ethnocultural diversity: Develop a brief history of a particular ethnic community.
- Provinces and manufacturing: Find evidence of the manufacturing dominance of Ontario and Quebec.
- Immigration and emigration: Investigate contributing factors for specific time periods.
- Canada at war: Write an article on the financing of the world wars and wartime production.
- Lessons from Canadian Agricultural at a Glance Teacher's Kit
- Where were your ancestors in 1871? Compare farm families in the 1870s and today.
- Prairie farmers have always found a way to adapt: Examine change in the 20th century
- They're here to farm: Discover how immigrants contributed to Canadian agriculture.
Archived lessons are based on information that is out-of-date.
