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Perspectives on Early Contact

  • Identify the perspective and message depicted in drawings of early contact between Europeans and First Nations people.
  • Redraw or describe the drawing, based upon an alternative perspective.

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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 7.1.3.3 - What were the social and economic factors of European imperialism? (CC, I, TCC)
Specific Outcome 7.1.3.6 - Who were the key figures in the French exploration and settlement of North America? (CC, LPP, TCC)
Specific Outcome 7.1.3.8 - Who were the key figures in the British exploration and settlement of North America? (CC, LPP, TCC)
Specific Outcome 7.S.1.1 - Students will determine the validity of information based on context, bias, source, objectivity, evidence and/or reliability to broaden understanding of a topic or an issue
Specific Outcome 7.S.1.2 - Students will evaluate, critically, ideas, information and positions from multiple perspectives
Specific Outcome 7.S.1.4 - Students will re-evaluate personal opinions to broaden understanding of a topic or an issue
Specific Outcome 7.S.1.5 - Students will generate creative ideas and strategies in individual and group activities
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.8.4 - Students will listen to others in order to understand their perspectives
C Citizenship
ER Economics and Resources
CC Culture and Community
I Identity
LPP The Land: Places and People
GC Global Connections
TCC Time, Continuity and Change
PADM Power, Authority, and Decision Making
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