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Some lessons require access to E-STAT.

Intermediate Secondary

Intermediate (covers senior elementary to junior high)

Virtual winter count: Like North American Plains Indians, record your history using pictures and stories.
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 20^th century.
- Economic gains: Examine changes in wages and play the role of a human resources officer during the first half of the 20^th 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.

Secondary

Lessons using Censuses of Canada, 1665 to 1871 (registration to E-STAT required)
- 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.
20^th 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 20^th 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 20^th century
- They're here to farm: Discover how immigrants contributed to Canadian agriculture.

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