Now Known as Canada - Virtual

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Category

Virtual Lessons with ROM Educators

Duration

45 minutes

Audience

Educators, French Presentation, Schools

Age

8-14

Grades

3, 5, 6, 7, 8

Subjects

Art & Culture, Canada, Canadian & World Studies, History, Indigenous, Language, Social Studies

About this lesson

The country now known as Canada, like all countries, has a messy past. But we can learn from history and move forward with deeper understandings.

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The country now known as Canada, like all countries, has a messy past. But we can learn from history and move forward with deeper understandings, in this rich and thoughtful lesson with a Museum Educator or Indigenous Museum Educator. 

Elementary grades will focus on the significance of a selection of major events, people, and themes in the nation’s colonial history. Different viewpoints and competing interpretations will be examined, as well as how the events of the past continue to affect Indigenous-settler relationships today. 

Secondary grades will focus on issues of sustainability, population movements, and inequality that are rooted in past relationships, events, and actions driven by policies and perspectives of the time. Students will learn about key events, discuss modern reverberation, and start to develop a class plan of action of how to engage with these issues in their communities.

 

Delivery LanguageThis lesson is only offered in English
FormatVirtual Lesson 
Duration
  • Grades 3 - 45 minutes
  • Grades 5 to 6 - 45 minutes
  • Grades 7 to 8 - 45 minutes 
PricingFree
Minimum Group 10
Maximum Group600

Available Dates

Learning Goals

Examine the significance of key events, people, and policies in Canada’s colonial history, with particular attention to Indigenous experiences and perspectives.

Learn how historical events are understood differently depending on perspective, and how sources shape our interpretation of the past.

Understand how past relationships and actions continue to influence present-day Indigenous-settler relations, social inequalities, and efforts toward reconciliation.

Curriculum Connections

Depending on the examples the ROM Educator selects, links may include:

 

Grades 3, 5, 6
  • Social Studies Heritage and Identity
Grade 7
  • History New France and British North America, 1713–1800  
  • Canada, 1800–1850: Conflict and Challenges 
Grade 8
  • History Creating Canada, 1850–1890
  • Canada, 1890–1914: A Changing Society

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