Unit+Plan+-+APPLIED

__ Central Question:  __ // What is the legacy of the post-war period on Canadian identity today?
 * __ Post War Canadian Foreign Policy Unit (1945-1960s)  __**

OR // //How did this era shape Canadian identity? What legacy did it leave?// __ Unit Outline:  __ // (Group) // Newspaper Scavenger Hunt (Introduction to topics in unit) What is ‘legacy’? || // (Equity - Jen) // Division of Germay, Creation of Israel, Creation of UN, UN Declaration of Human Rights || Suez Crisis, Peacekeeping, Lester B. Pearson || Guest Speaker, Operation Thank You || NATO vs Warsaw Pact, NORAD, Avro Arrow, Arms Race, Space Race || Introduction, group selection, exemplars || Advances in Computers, space technology, the first organ transplant, polio vaccine || // (Environment - Arista) // Television, suburbia, economy (Cradle to the Grave consumerism), tourism, music?? (Elvis!!) || Script Writing, check-point meetings with teacher || // (Internet Technology - Mike) // Diefenbunker || Work period (video taping, working on report) || ** Culminating Task – Part 4 ** Work period (video taping, working on report) || Presentation Day and End of Unit Celebration ||
 * ** DAY  ** || **  TOPIC  ** ||
 * 1  || ** Introduction **
 * 2  ||  **Post War Power and the United Nations**
 * 3  || ** Korean War – Part 1 ** ||
 * 4  || ** Peacekeeping – Part 1 **
 * 5  || ** Peacekeeping – Part 2 **
 * 6  || ** Nuclear Reality and the Cold War – Part 1 **
 * 7 || **Culminating Task – Part 1 **
 * 8 || **Technology **
 * 9  ||  **Influence on the United States**
 * 10  || **Culminating Task – Part 2 **
 * 11  || ** Cuban Missile Crisis + Election **
 * 12  || ** Culminating Task – Part 3 **
 * 13  ||
 * 14  || **Culminating Task – Part 5 **

__ Culminating Task:  __ - group project - create script and video-taped Heritage Moment - Histori.ca Heritage Minutes used as exemplars - script and Heritage Minute itself are marked as a group (each group member reports what they did and what their team mates contributed) - each individual hands in 1-2 page research report on what their topic, including what the legacy of their topic has been in shaping Canadian identity Possible Topics: ·  Peacekeeping ·  UN Declaration of Human Rights ·  Space technology ·  NORAD ·
 * Heritage Moments **

__ Lesson 1:  __ - Newspaper scavenger hunt (20 minutes) - group activity (competition) - introduction to topics of unit (e.g. find an article referring to Canadian peacekeeping efforts; find a picture which has to do with human rights; find a reference to Canada’s relationship with the USA) - What is ‘legacy’ (10 minutes) - small group discussion on how to define ‘legacy’ - What makes us Canadian? (35 minutes) - snowballing exercise - defining Canadian identity – individuals, pairs and finally groups devise list of ideas, things, saying that are uniquely Canadian or define us as a people and country and present them to the class - wrap up with ‘I Am Canadian’ Ad
 * Introduction to Central Question **