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Three Dramatic Events

Assess the impact of three economic crashes and booms—World War I,
the Great Depression and economic boom following World War II—on Canadians.


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Specific Outcomes

This critical challenge may address these outcomes:

Specific Outcome 5.3.4.1 - How did the First World War contribute to the industrialization and urbanization of Canada? (ER, LPP)
Specific Outcome 5.3.4.2 - In what ways did the Great Depression of the 1930s affect ways of life in urban and rural communities? (ER, LPP, TCC)
Specific Outcome 5.3.4.3 - How did the economic boom immediately following the Second World War affect ways of life in Canada? (CC, ER, TCC)
Specific Outcome 5.S.2.1 - Students will use photographs and interviews to make meaning of historical information
Specific Outcome 5.S.2.2 - Students will use historical and community resources to understand and organize the sequence of national historical events
Specific Outcome 5.S.2.3 - Students will explain the historical context of key events of a given time period
Specific Outcome 5.S.2.4 - Students will organize information, using such tools as a database, spreadsheet or electronic webbing
Specific Outcome 5.S.7.1 - Students will determine themes, patterns and trends from information gathered
Specific Outcome 5.S.7.2 - Students will use graphs, tables, charts and Venn diagrams to interpret information.
Specific Outcome 5.S.7.3 - Students will draw and support conclusions, based on information gathered, to answer a research question
Specific Outcome 5.S.7.6 - Students will access and retrieve appropriate information from the Internet by using a specific search path or from given uniform resource locators (URLs)
Specific Outcome 5.S.7.11 - Students will reflect on and describe the processes involved in completing a project
Specific Outcome 5.S.8.1 - Students will select appropriate forms of delivery for written and oral information, taking particular audiences and purposes into consideration
Specific Outcome 5.S.8.2 - Students will respond appropriately to comments and questions, using language respectful of human diversity
Specific Outcome 5.S.8.4 - Students will create visual images for particular audiences and purposes
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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