Social Studies 7 Project

Project Timeline:
9 classes available to work on this project
Missed classes and any work not completed during these classes
will be on the students own time.
Projects will be due on Wednesday April 19th, 2017
Students are encouraged to do some research as homework throughout the 3
weeks this project is ongoing to avoid unavailable devices or poor connections
during class time. Textbooks will be available during class.
Personal devices will not be permitted in class during this project.

Outcome:
7.4.3 Analyse the degree of empowerment and disempowerment for Aboriginal peoples in present day Atlantic Canada during the
1870s and 1880s.

Choose 2 of the following 3 options

Option 1: Option 2:
Choose one first nations Describe the way of life for
leader from the one Aboriginal community
1870s-1880s and create in Atlantic Canada in
a biography/Social media 1870s. Description can
profile for them. take the form of a story,
diagram, or poem.
Option 3:
Choose one of the treaties
or the Indian Act and
create a fact sheet to
summarize the information
you learn.

Outcome:
7.4.4 Analyse the struggle for empowerment by new cultural groups immigrating to Canada between 1870 and 1914.
Choose 2 of the following 3 options
Option 1: Option 2: Option 3:
Given a map of Canada Pack a suitcase for Create a comic strip to
identify the different someone immigrating to describe and chronicle the
cultural groups that Canada during this time. journey someone in the
imigrated to Canada and Create a packing list and 1870s may have taken to
where in Canada they explain why those items immigrate to Canada.
immigrated in the will be necessary to assist
1870s-1914. them with their transition to
Canada.

Outcome:
7.5.3 Examine how women became more empowered through their role in the social reform movements of the late 19th and early
20th centuries.
Choose 2 of the following 3 options
Option 1: Option 2: Option 3:
Choose one female or Describe the way of life for Create a comic strip to
group who impacted social women in Atlantic Canada describe and chronicle the
reform create a in the early 1900s. process canadian women
biography/Social media Description can take the went through to achieve
profile for them. form of a story, diagram, or social reform in the 1900s.
poem.

Level 4 Question:
Page 188 shows a poster that the Government of Canada used to interest people in
Great Britain to move to Canada. If Aboriginal peoples had also created posters at that
time about life in Canada, how do you think they would be similar or different? Describe
and create what you think that poster might look like.