Beyond textbooks 2010

EDUC 8Y29 Junior/Intermediate Social Studies

Saturday, October 2, 2010

Agenda• Last week - Integrated Teaching

• Lesson Plan Description Questions?

• Online Participation Update

• Beyond Textbooks - Benefits

• Introduction to Role Play in the Classroom

• Benefits of Role Play

• Activity: Settlement of the West Role Play

• Activity: Unit plan groups


Beyond Textbooks: Benefits

Most humans come to know their social world, not through text, but through human experience (Johnson, 2006).


Benefits of Non-Textbooks

Textbooks provide the facts, non-textbooks can help to understand life in a particular location or time period

Allows students to think like historians/geographers (i.e.What does this source tell us about this time period/location).


Beyond Textbooks

Primary Sources - Diaries, Newspapers, Photographs, ArtHistorical literature Movies, Video, TelevisionGames


Benefits of Role Play

Deeper knowledge of subject matter;Increased self-direction and motivation;Improved research and problem-solving skills.Allows student to investigate the human side of history (social justice & equity issues).


Role Play Stages

1. Initiation and direction2. Describing the scenario3. Assigning roles4. Enactment5. Debriefing/Evaluation

(Martorella, Beal, Bolick, 2005)

Role playing, a derivative of a sociodrama, is a method for exploring the issues involved in complex social situations

(Blatner, 2002).


www.imagescanada.ca Emigration to Canada - 1822Detailing the hardships and difficulties which an emigrant has to encounter, before and after his settlement in Upper Canada.With an account of the country as it regards its climate, soil, and the actual conditions of its inhabitants.

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A notice to emigrants, from Dundas, Ontario, April 24, 1845, concerning farms for sale in the Gore District.

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An appeal to immigrants from Great Britain offering free grants for settlers, under the Free Homestead legislation of 1868, to take up lands north of existing populated areas in Ontario.

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This Norwegian poster is typical of the posters employed in Canada's aggressive campaign to attract European settlers to the West. Issued in the 1890s, it reads "Canada: 160 acres of free land for every settler."

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Dominion Land Act 1872The act sold 160 acres (65 ha) for the extremely low price of $10 to any farmer who agreed to cultivate at least 40 acres (16.25 ha) and build a permanent dwelling within three years.




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Land, A Living and Wealth: The Story of Farming and Social Conditions in Western Canada, Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, 1913.

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Canada’s Call to Women.www.collectionscanada.com/immigrants






Historic Role Play: Settlement of the West

1. Select an identity2. Choose a plot of land3. Choose supplies 4. Create diary entries


Settlement of the West:Roles

England - Doctor Husband 38, Wife 30, Daughter, 10

United States - FarmerHusband 46, Wife 40, Grandmother 66, Sons 16 & 11, Daughter 13

Iceland - FarmerHusband 28, Wife 22, Daughter 8, Son 3, Daughter 1

Russia (Mennonite) - FarmerHusband 46, Wife 40, Son 17, Daughter 11, Son 4

United States (African American) - FarmerHusband 32, Wife 30, Son 6, Son 4, Daughter 2

Scotland - BlacksmithSingle male 42

Montreal - ClerkHusband 22, Wife 18

China - StorekeeperSingle male 33

Ukraine - FarmerHusband 46, Wife 40, Son 7, Daughter 6, Son 4


Land Grab

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Timothy Eaton Catalog 1896www.collectionscanada.com




Pioneer Life /Settlement of the West: Necessities

HOUSEHOLD ITEMSBed pan (5)Cooking utensils (5)Lantern (5)Clock (5)5 candles (1)Woven baskets (5)Mirror (10)Cooking pan (5)Blanket (5)Dutch oven (5)Coffee pot (2)Plants (10)Cooking stove (75)Loom (35)Pitcher and bowl (10)Table and 4 chairs (50)1gallon coal oil (10)

PERSONAL ITEMSHunting knife (5)Bag of clothing for 1 person (20)Guitar (5)Eating utensils for 1 person (2)Pistol (5)Extra pair of boots (7)Snow shoes (5)

FOOD50 lbs flour (50)25 lbs vegetables (30)25 lbs dried beef (25)25 lbs pinto beans (25)5 gal vinegar (25)25 lbs salt (30)

TOOLS Pick axe (5)Hatchet (5)Shovel (5)2 man cross-cut saw (5)Corn sheller (25)4 steel animal traps (5)Large grinding stone (20)Vise (5)Grain cradle (10)Axle grease (10)Hoe (5)

MISC. ITEMSChicken coop (10)Extra keg of gun powder (20)20 gallon barrel of water (60)Feed for 1 pair of animals (30)


Settlement of the West:Diary Entries

1. You have arrived in Quebec City and are about to get on the train that will

bring you out west. While in the city you have brought all of the supplies for

the trip to your homestead and the materials that you will use to set up your

new home.You should also note what problems you may encounter and what

your new life will be like.

2. You have gotten off the train in Western Canada and have begun the journeyby wagon on to the prairie.

3. You have been living on the prairie for six months, what have you accomplished so far?

4. You have been living on the prairie for one year. What is your life like? What will your future be like?


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The Premier, The Old Chief's Career is Closed [Death of Sir John A. Macdonald], June 8, 1891, Toronto Daily Mail, Toronto, Ontwww.collectionscanada.ca




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War: Britain Gives Word," August 3, 1914, The Morning Leader, Regina, Sask.www.collectionscanada.ca






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Ottawa Parliament Houses Burned, February 4, 1916, Daily Mail and Empire, Toronto, Ont.www.collectionscanada.ca






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Russian Doukhobor settlers on a ship to Canada, 1898.

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John Ware, Black rancher, and family, southern Alberta 1896.

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Essential domestic work on an emerging Loyalist farm in early Upper Canada: carding wool from sheep, spinning thread, weaving cloth for garments, hauling firewood, and serving tea.

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First ranchers in Elk Valley, British Columbia. 1905

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Mid-European emigrant and child, Yorkton area, Saskatchewan 1903.

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Homesteaders on loaded wagon, western Canada 1909.ww

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Settlers in covered wagons, Okotoks area, Alberta

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Pioneers outside sod house, near Coronation (Haneyville),

Alberta. 1907-1908

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Scottish pioneer in Drumheller, Alberta area. Came to western

Canada in 1888.

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John Gidluk, Ukrainian settler, Biggar area, Saskatchewan

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Laundry day on Wyman's farm, near Bon Accord, Alberta 1916-1919.Mrs. John Payzant, washing clothes outside. Sod-roofed shack to the rear. Grind stone on right with can suspended above from which water dropped on stone for sharpening axes, mower knives, etc.

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Pioneer woman churning butter, Springfield Ranch,

Beynon, Alberta 1908.


Pioneers with ox-drawn wagon, Shepard area, Alberta

1900-1903.


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Richard Benard Witherby age 24www.collectionscanada.com/immigrants




In 1908, Jessieʼs Family immigrates to Canada and faces a world full of challenges. In time, Jessie finds both a voice and a vision of a stronger, more confident self.

The Promised Land: Settling the West 1896-1914

Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young Peoplehttp://www.bookcentre.ca/awards/bilson/annotatedList#1989

Settlement of the West: Historical Fiction


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The experiences of Canadaʼs early Chinese immigrants are recreated in this rich collection of modern folktales. Their customs, traditions, successes and failures reflect the courage of these people in an often uninviting country.

In this gentle story about Willie Adams and his family, who live a hardy life in a cabin in remote Northern Ontario during the 1880s.



In 1915, Sam Ferrier and his father arrive by train in Curlew, Alberta. In time their house is built and the rest of the family joins them on their grassy land under the endless sky that is nothing like their home back in Iowa.

In her second time travel adventure, Maggie is transported to the prairie in the 1890s. She becomes part of a pioneer family – attending school, doing chores and looking after the horses.



Settlement of the West: Movies & Television

Two couples travel back in time to 1875 and build a homestead just like our pioneer forefathers. They experienced tremendous "real-life" adversities of flood, fire, crop failures, sick animals, rotting food, relentless mosquitoes, poison ivy, wood ticks and 'no toilet paper', yet "stuck it out".


With The Oregon Trail, you can almost smell the dust from the wagon train! Kids will build real-life decision-making and problem-solving skills as they choose their wagon party and supplies, read maps, plan their route, and guide their team through the wilderness. Develop solutions to help your friends and family survive the dangers of the long journey, including raging rivers, buffalo stampedes, sickness, and starvation. Discover a learning adventure that's greater than fiction—about real people with real dreams, facing and overcoming real challenges.

Settlement of the West: Games - The Oregon Trail


Adapting Simulation/ Role Play Activities

1. Determine the educational objective to fulfilled(This can be taken from the ministry guidelines).

2. Create a specific learning expectations for your students.

3. Review the available resources to support this learning experiences. Simulations are not an occasion to throw away the textbook. They can be a valuable resources to enhance student knowledge. Even if you don’t include them in your lesson plans, have them available for motivated students who want to get an edge.


Adapting Simulation/ Role Play Activities

4. Build student background knowledge. 5. Determine the roles students will play.6. Determine the events that student will have to face. Simulations create a non-linear learning experience.

7. Determine how student learning will be assessed.


Beyond Textbooks:Unit Plans

As you create your Unit Plan,consider using some non-textbookresources.

Next Week•Aboriginal Education & Social Justice•READ: Chapter 19 - Where’s the information•Submit your Lesson Plan Description via Sakai


Beyond textbooks 2010

Documents

west role play activity

historic role play

role play stages1

social conditions

lbs vegetables

lbs salt

united states farmerhusband

ukraine farmerhusband