Celebrating Canada’s Multiculturalism Edukit

Secondary Instructional Plan 1: Ethnic Settlement/ Immigration - Part 1

Table of Contents
Learning outcomes (2005) 1
1. Introductory Activity: Exploring the Relationship Learning 2-3
2. Visiting the Past: Settlement in Alberta 4-6

Outcomes
Selected Secondary Outcomes (2005 Social Studies Program of Studies—Alberta)
The following are possible from the contents and instructional plans provided in this site; not all are directly addressed in the instructional plan.

Social Studies 9
Title and General Outcomes
Canada: Opportunities and Challenges
09.01 Issues for Canadians: Governance and rights.

O9.01 Linkages
Canadian citizenship, identity and quality of life and how they are impacted by political and legislative processes in Canada.

Gr	Values and Attitudes	Knowledge/Understandings	Skills
9	9.1.1 appreciate the impact of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms on rights and governance in Canada	9.1.8 Critically assess how Legislative processes attempt to address emerging issues of immigration by exploring and reflecting upon the following questions and issues: • What is the relationship between immigration policies in Canada and the rights guaranteed in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms?	Dimensions of thinking Students will: access diverse viewpoints on particular topics, using appropriate technologies assemble and organize different viewpoints in order to assess their validity create a simulation or a model, using technology that permits the making of inferences identify patterns in organized information access and operate multimedia applications and technologies from stand-alone and online sources, (e.g., GIS) articulate clearly a plan of action to use technology to solve a problem identify the appropriate materials and tools to use in order to accomplish a plan of action evaluate choices and the progress in problem solving, then redefining the plan of action, as necessary access, retrieve and share information from electronic sources such as common files use networks to brainstorm, plan and share ideas with group members create a plan for an inquiry that includes consideration of time management demonstrate the advanced search skills necessary to limit the number of hits desired for online and offline databases; for example, the use of “and” or “or” between search topics and the choice of appropriate search engines for the topic develop a process to manage volumes of information that can be made available through electronic sources evaluate the relevance of electronically accessed information to a particular topic make connections among related, organized data and assemble various pieces into a unified message analyze and synthesize information to create a product

Rationale
By looking back to the time of Ethnic settlement in Alberta and the discrimination those settlers encountered, students should develop an appreciation for the Charter of Rights and Freedoms that exists in Canada today. Students will examine Immigration policies and their relationship to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and speculate how those policies and the Charter may have helped ease the struggle of Alberta’s Ethnic settlers.