Critical Challenge: Aboriginal Societies

Specific Outcomes

This critical challenge may address these outcomes:

Specific Outcome 7.1.1	-	Students will appreciate the influence of diverse Aboriginal, French and British peoples on events leading to Confederation (C, I, TCC)
Specific Outcome 7.1.2	-	Students will appreciate the challenges of co-existence among peoples (C, CC, I, LPP)
Specific Outcome 7.1.3.1	-	What were the different ways in which Aboriginal societies were structured (i.e., Iroquois Confederacy, Ojibwa, Mi'kmaq)? (CC, I, LPP)
Specific Outcome 7.1.3.2	-	How did the structures of Aboriginal societies affect decision making in each society (i.e., role and status of women, consensus building)? (CC, TCC, PADM)
Specific Outcome 7.S.1.2	-	Students will evaluate, critically, ideas, information and positions from multiple perspectives
Specific Outcome 7.S.2.1	-	Students will analyze historical issues to form or support an opinion
Specific Outcome 7.S.2.3	-	Students will explain the historical contexts of key events of a given time period
Specific Outcome 7.S.7.1	-	Students will develop a position that is supported by information gathered through research
Specific Outcome 7.S.7.2	-	Students will draw conclusions based upon research and evidence
Specific Outcome 7.S.7.4	-	Students will organize and synthesize researched information
Specific Outcome 7.S.7.6	-	Students will integrate and synthesize concepts to provide an informed point of view on a research question or an issue
Specific Outcome 7.S.8.1	-	Students will communicate information in a clear, persuasive and engaging manner, through written and oral means

TCC	Time, Continuity and Change
PADM	Power, Authority, and Decision Making