Welcome to Madame Jarvis's Social Studies 10 course! "Canada and the World, 1914-present"
This webpage is intended to be a resource for other teachers
who are looking for examples of what they can do with their classes.
I have benefited from the generosity of others over the last few years.
Much of what I have created was collaborative from the get-go with others at
my school & a dear mentor from another district who was a FA for a long time.
Sharing what I have here is a way of paying it forward from when others have helped me.
I have given credit to my collaborators or sources of inspiration in each document,
and I hope you will continue to do the same.
Please excuse any errors! Also I am still new to Social Studies so in 3 years it may look a lot different as I am still figuring things out. Regardless, I hope this supports some of you in both face to face or blended/online.
You have my blessing to make copies and change at will, BUT If you use **anything** I share, please credit me at the bottom of every page you use, so that any other colleague can know who to approach with questions or ideas for collaboration.
If you have any questions, suggestions, or contributions, please email me
(jarvis_n at surreyschools dot ca) or send me a tweet! @nico1e on Twitter.
I rely a lot on a few sources for my grade 10 course.
1.Textbook: Creating Canada: A History, 1914 to the Present. Nelson Publishing: Canada. © 2014 McGraw-Hill Ryerson. 2nd Edition. 2. Textbook: Counterpoints 3. Skillsbook: Seixas, Peter and Tom Morton. The Big Six Historical Thinking Concepts. (Toronto: Nelson, 2012) 4. Guiding inspiration: Glen Thielman's Social Studies 10 page, the Pacific Slope Consortium, TC2 - The Critical Thinking Institute I use a specific template for notetaking that has three components: 1) Vocabulary work, 2) Main ideas, and 3) Ideas, connections, connections. The textbooks. have a solid reading level appropriate for grade 10s (not too easy, not too hard, though Counterpoints is more challenging), comprehensive chapters, connections to historical thinking, cool primary sources throughout. In French: pending (these textbooks do not exist in French yet) |
Here are my questions activities – you might want to bookmark the links instead of downloading them, just because they are living document liable to change a lot in the coming weeks. I keep adding questions as I come across good ones.
Grade 10
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sRYyB7j-_S6Tj1o0mADfpRG9ngpF6qdj19azxa452k4/edit?usp=sharing
Historical Thinking Anchor chart handout:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wtww7eetiuwPIdQk4epPu2WqP8M7wJWCu67YU4My2y0/edit?usp=sharing
My students did this as a diagnostic BEFORE learning about the Vietnam War. I think it was a good way for them to read about the 60’s and 70’s in Canada and about the Red Scare & America’s War on Vietnam without it being very content heavy, because they lean into inferring causes and values right off the bat. I just marked a bunch and then went back into the assignment to fix things I noticed may have gotten in the kids’ way, so this is the ‘improved’ version that I’m sharing with you.
We did a Values exercise a couple of days prior.
Values Exercise:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IpwfTgGiajE0bmhmaFzJya6PX7aiwhM1mGOXY0NJ3b4/edit?usp=sharing
America’s War on Vietnam & Canadian Values:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H3-ZLThtNPthLrh5HSl5qAk2594sAzFmCL1-Erl7Udg/edit?usp=sharing
Extra: Vietnam War from the North Vietnamese Perspective: https://youtu.be/_pgcFqraekE
A few more things to share with you… I was looking for primary sources to ‘hook’ my kids (I have been doing I see / I think / I wonder every day: right now we’re in an Ethical Judgement phase https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZN86IMJLktLsHoT3r4TjYEKMCC7_qj0azwuqAQenJMM/edit?usp=sharing ) and so I was looking for visual thinking stuff to hook them for the Cuban Missile Crisis
… anyways I ended up going down a rabbit hole and stumbling upon this Popular Mechanics magazine from December 1961 and it’s brilliant for doing Intended and Unintended Consequences of Nuclear Missile Fear!
My plan is to let the kids browse the magazine & do I see I think I wonder before I give them a Cause and Consequence Template and draw their attention to focus on pages 56-61. I’m including 61 because I think it’s hilarious to look back on “What we should invent” and reflect on which inventions we have, like foldaway seats in cars, or don’t have (like brakes on shopping carts)!
Look at pages 56 - 61 Google Books Popular Mechanics “The best guess now is: Prepare to live in your shelter for two weeks,” December 1961 (let the kids browse the rest of the magazine for fun / context )
https://books.google.ca/books?id=TiEDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA60&lpg=PA60&dq=“The+best+guess+now+is:+Prepare+to+live+in+your+shelter+for+two+weeks,”+December+1961&source=bl&ots=mx2XUjDKiF&sig=ACfU3U2kj2vMEsGJCOUJw51LmUsEKP5upQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiC9sXXr7DtAhWOjp4KHRuGC54Q6AEwAnoECAEQAg#v=onepage&q=“The%20best%20guess%20now%20is%3A%20Prepare%20to%20live%20in%20your%20shelter%20for%20two%20weeks%2C”%20December%201961&f=false
And here’s where I’m headed with the Cuban Missile Crisis stuff… https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cfp5wJ8jhhig5FP_6_fn2V2OGQ4J-KIwCmpprE03OKA/edit?usp=sharing
Using the following Texts https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S7wK3m-dlLtBcBPn5XoeEtteAuCm0XwX/view?usp=sharing
Annnnnnd here’s the powerpoint where I am parking the primary sources that I want to use in lessons. I already did the first 3: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1fCR4WPR7QQ-rzi-62B2Yo4zVTKNUb3MVUcp2O1ueiiw/edit?usp=sharing
Grade 10
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sRYyB7j-_S6Tj1o0mADfpRG9ngpF6qdj19azxa452k4/edit?usp=sharing
Historical Thinking Anchor chart handout:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wtww7eetiuwPIdQk4epPu2WqP8M7wJWCu67YU4My2y0/edit?usp=sharing
My students did this as a diagnostic BEFORE learning about the Vietnam War. I think it was a good way for them to read about the 60’s and 70’s in Canada and about the Red Scare & America’s War on Vietnam without it being very content heavy, because they lean into inferring causes and values right off the bat. I just marked a bunch and then went back into the assignment to fix things I noticed may have gotten in the kids’ way, so this is the ‘improved’ version that I’m sharing with you.
We did a Values exercise a couple of days prior.
Values Exercise:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IpwfTgGiajE0bmhmaFzJya6PX7aiwhM1mGOXY0NJ3b4/edit?usp=sharing
America’s War on Vietnam & Canadian Values:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H3-ZLThtNPthLrh5HSl5qAk2594sAzFmCL1-Erl7Udg/edit?usp=sharing
Extra: Vietnam War from the North Vietnamese Perspective: https://youtu.be/_pgcFqraekE
A few more things to share with you… I was looking for primary sources to ‘hook’ my kids (I have been doing I see / I think / I wonder every day: right now we’re in an Ethical Judgement phase https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZN86IMJLktLsHoT3r4TjYEKMCC7_qj0azwuqAQenJMM/edit?usp=sharing ) and so I was looking for visual thinking stuff to hook them for the Cuban Missile Crisis
… anyways I ended up going down a rabbit hole and stumbling upon this Popular Mechanics magazine from December 1961 and it’s brilliant for doing Intended and Unintended Consequences of Nuclear Missile Fear!
My plan is to let the kids browse the magazine & do I see I think I wonder before I give them a Cause and Consequence Template and draw their attention to focus on pages 56-61. I’m including 61 because I think it’s hilarious to look back on “What we should invent” and reflect on which inventions we have, like foldaway seats in cars, or don’t have (like brakes on shopping carts)!
Look at pages 56 - 61 Google Books Popular Mechanics “The best guess now is: Prepare to live in your shelter for two weeks,” December 1961 (let the kids browse the rest of the magazine for fun / context )
https://books.google.ca/books?id=TiEDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA60&lpg=PA60&dq=“The+best+guess+now+is:+Prepare+to+live+in+your+shelter+for+two+weeks,”+December+1961&source=bl&ots=mx2XUjDKiF&sig=ACfU3U2kj2vMEsGJCOUJw51LmUsEKP5upQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiC9sXXr7DtAhWOjp4KHRuGC54Q6AEwAnoECAEQAg#v=onepage&q=“The%20best%20guess%20now%20is%3A%20Prepare%20to%20live%20in%20your%20shelter%20for%20two%20weeks%2C”%20December%201961&f=false
And here’s where I’m headed with the Cuban Missile Crisis stuff… https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cfp5wJ8jhhig5FP_6_fn2V2OGQ4J-KIwCmpprE03OKA/edit?usp=sharing
Using the following Texts https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S7wK3m-dlLtBcBPn5XoeEtteAuCm0XwX/view?usp=sharing
Annnnnnd here’s the powerpoint where I am parking the primary sources that I want to use in lessons. I already did the first 3: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1fCR4WPR7QQ-rzi-62B2Yo4zVTKNUb3MVUcp2O1ueiiw/edit?usp=sharing