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Social Studies 11 Open School BC
 
Module 1: Politics and Government
 

Module 1: Politics and Government

Section 1.1 A New Century Dawns - 1901-1910

Lesson 1.1A: A New Era - The World in 1901

Gender Issues: Country Gender Profiles
http://www.worldbank.org/gender/

United Nations: Women at a Glance
http://www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/women/women96.htm

CLN Celebrating Women Theme Page
http://www.cln.org/themes/women.html

Industrial Revolution: A Trip to the Past
http://members.aol.com/mhirotsu/kevin/trip2.html

The Industrial Revolution
http://www.ecology.com/archived-links/industrial-revolution/index.html

 

Lesson 1.1B: The Modern World - Cultural and Political Change

Pablo Picasso and Cubism
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/5401/2thirdgradepicassobio.html

Art History Network
http://www.arthistory.net/

First Nations' Art in British Columbia
http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/exhibits/timemach/galler03/frames/index.htm

McMichael Canadian Art Collection
http://www.mcmichael.com/

Nellie McClung and the Suffrage Movement
http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/exhibits/timemach/galler10/frames/index.htm

 

Lesson 1.1C: Picture Gallery - Life at the Turn of the Century

British Columbia's Resource Development
http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/exhibits/timemach/galler09/frames/index.htm

British Columbia's Economy and Technology
http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/exhibits/timemach/galler08/frames/index.htm

 

Lesson 1.1D: The Global Economy - An Interconnected World

International Trade
http://www.international.gc.ca/index.aspx

World Fact Book
http://www.theodora.com/wfb/abc_world_fact_book.html

World Bank International Trade
http://www.worldbank.org/html/schools/issues/itrade.htm

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
http://www.unctad.org/Templates/Page.asp?intItemID=1530&lang=1

 

Lesson 1.1E:Spans the World - The Canadian Pacific Railway

History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Links
http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/hstm/hstm_alphabetical.htm

History of Technology Resources
http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/asap_resources.htm

Canadian Pacific Railway History
http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/exhibits/timemach/galler08/frames/cpr.htm

Canadian Pacific Railways
http://www.cpr.ca/

 

Lesson 1.1F: Becoming A Minority - Aboriginal Peoples in Canada

Aboriginal Rights Coalition
http://arcbc.tripod.com/

Nisga'a Nation
http://www.nisgaalisims.ca/

First Nations in British Columbia
http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/exhibits/timemach/galler07/frames/index.htm

CLN First Nations History Theme Page
http://www.cln.org/themes/fn_history.html

CLN First Nations Treaties Theme Page
http://www.cln.org/themes/fn_treaties.html

 

Lesson 1.1G: Colonial Ties - Canada and Britain

Historical Facts on Canada
http://www.facts-about.org.uk/history-and-events-timeline-canadian.htm

Britain and Canada ­ 500 Years
http://www.bis-canada.org/booklet/index.htm

Council of Canadians
http://www.canadians.org/

Alaska Internet Travel Guide: History
http://akol.com/history/bells.htm

Alaska Department of Fish and Game
http://www.state.ak.us/local/akpages/FISH.GAME/home.html

 

Lesson 1.1H: Two New Provinces - Alberta and Saskatchewan

Welcome to Nunavut
http://npc.nunavut.ca/eng/nunavut/index.html

Teaching and Learning About Nunavut
http://www.canadainfolink.ca/nunavut.htm

CBC Nunavut: Canada's New Territory
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-73-108/politics_economy/nunavut/

Nunatsiaq News
http://www.nunatsiaq.com/

 

Lesson 1.1I: Immigration - Melting Pot or Mosaic?

Multiculturalism in Canada
http://www.mta.ca/faculty/arts/canadian_studies/english/about/multi/index.htm

Immigrants to Canada in the Nineteenth Century
http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/thevoyage.html

CLN Canadian Immigration Theme Page
http://www.cln.org/themes/immigration.html

 

Lesson 1.1J: Opposing Immigration - The Vancouver Riot

The Vancouver Riot
http://www.cic.gc.ca/ENGLISH/department/legacy/chap-3a.html

Multiculturalism in Canada
http://www.pch.gc.ca/csp-pec/english/about/multi/index.htm#attitudes

Chinese Immigration to Canada
http://www.ist.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/chinese.html

 

Lesson 1.1K: Canadian Youth - Life in the Early Twentieth Century

Voices of Youth
http://www.unicef.org/voy/meeting/meethome.html

Children and Work
http://www.unicef.org/voy/meeting/lab/labhome.html

 

Lesson 1.1L: Prohibition - Social Reform and the WCTU

Prevention Source B.C.
http://www.preventionsource.bc.ca/html/2b.html

Health Canada Alcohol and other Drugs
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hppb/alcohol-otherdrugs/

National Institute on Drug Abuse
http://www.nida.nih.gov/

Women's Christian Temperance Union
http://www.wctu.org/

CLN Substance Abuse Theme Page
http://www.cln.org/themes/substance_abuse.html

 

Lesson 1.1M: Skill Builder-Making Oral Presentations

Organizing an Oral Presentation
http://www.iss.stthomas.edu/studyguides/orgstr3.htm

 

Lesson 1.1N: Expatriates - Canadian Artists in France

McMichael Canadian Art Collection
http://www.mcmichael.com/

National Gallery
http://national.gallery.ca/english/menu.html

Vancouver Art Gallery
http://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/

Eyes on Art
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/art2/index.html

CLN Art History Theme Page
http://www.cln.org/themes/art_history.html

 

Lesson 1.1O: Urbanization - The Growth of Cities

PlannersWeb Online Articles
http://www.plannersweb.com/articles/list.html

Lower Fraser Basin Ecosystem Project
http://www.ire.ubc.ca/ecoresearch/welcome.html

United Nations Human Settlements
http://www.ourplanet.com/imgversn/81/contents.html

MapQuest
http://www.mapquest.com/

 

Lesson 1.1P: King Coal - Mining on Vancouver Island

Energy Matters
http://library.advanced.org/20331/

Turning Down the Heat
http://www.davidsuzuki.org/energy/

B.C. Hydro Power Smart Home FAQs
http://eww.bchydro.bc.ca/mcs/powersmart/tips_faq.html

Charlotte's Energy Module
http://www.swifty.com/apase/charlotte/energy.html

Coal Association of Canada
http://www.coal.ca/class.htm

 

Section 1.2 Facing the World - 1911 - 1920

Lesson 1.2A: Skill Builder - Recognizing Bias

Bias in the News
http://www.media-awareness.ca/eng/issues/minrep/getinvolved/bias.htm

 

Lesson 1.2B: The Balance of Power - The World in 1911

The Dreadnought Race
http://www.worldwar1.com/tldread.htm

 

Lesson 1.2C: The Eastern Question - Confrontation in the Balkans

Kosovo
http://www.cbcnews.cbc.ca/news/indepth/kosovo/index.html

War in the Balkans Index
http://www.tv.cbc.ca/national/pgminfo/kosovo2/index.html

World Fact Book
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

 

Lesson 1.2D: The British Empire - Canada and the Dominions

Britain and Canada - 500 Years
http://www.bis-canada.org/booklet/index.htm

Historical Facts on Canada
http://www.infocan.gc.ca/facts/history-e.html

 

Lesson 1.2E: The Election of 1911 - Reciprocity

Canada-US Relations
http://www.cbc.ca/canadaus/

Council of Canadians
http://www.canadians.org/

 

Lesson 1.2F: Public Health - Crisis in Canadian Cities

PlannersWeb Online Articles
http://www.plannersweb.com/articles/list.html

United Nations Human Settlements
http://www.ourplanet.com/imgversn/81/contents.html

 

Lesson 1.2G: Rock Slide - Endangering the Salmon Run

DFO Coho Conservation
http://www-comm.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/pages/release/p-releas/HQ/hq0249_e.htm

DFO Communications Pacific Region
http://www-comm.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/english/default.htm

B.C. Ministry of Fisheries
http://www.agf.gov.bc.ca/fisheries/

 

Lesson 1.2H: Coming to Canada - The Komagata Maru Affair

The Komagata Maru
http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/punjab/koma.html

Artists Against Racism
http://www.artistsagainstracism.com/

Statistics on Immigrant Populations, 1961 to Present
http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/11-516-XIE/sectiona/sectiona.htm

 

Lesson 1.2I: Canada Enlists - Reactions to the War

World War One: Letters Home
http://www.rootsweb.com/~canmil/ww1/letters/index.htm

Memoirs From World War One
http://www.firstworldwar.com/diaries/index.htm

First Hand Accounts
http://www.worldwar1.com/sfguide.htm#home

Canada and The First World War
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/firstworldwar/index-e.html

Military History: World War One
http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/chrono/1914first_ww_e.html

 

Lesson 1.2J: At War in Europe - The Western Front

Vimy Ridge
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=memorials/ww1mem/Vimy&CFID=15109453&CFTOKEN=87968746

Lest We Forget
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/education/cenotaphresearch/index-e.html

 

Lesson 1.2K: War Artists - The War Memorials Fund

Canada's War Artists
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/war-artists/index-e.html

 

Lesson 1.2L: Canada at War - The Home Front

Women in the War
http://www.rootsweb.com/~canmil/ww1/women/fem.htm

War Posters
http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/exhibits/timemach/galler11/frames/index.htm

The War Measures Act (Racism Articles)
http://www.educ.sfu.ca/cels/

 

Lesson 1.2M: The War Hits Home - The Halifax Explosion

The Halifax Explosion
http://www.region.halifax.ns.ca/community/explode.html

Natural Hazard Preparedness
http://www.pep.bc.ca

Earthquakes Hazards Program
http://earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/index_e.php

Emergency Preparedness Links
http://www.ccep.ca/cceplink.html

 

Lesson 1.2N: A Country Divided - The Conscription Crisis

Conscientious Objection League Web Links
http://ospiti.peacelink.it/loc/who.htm

 

Lesson 1.2O: The Suffrage Movement - Women Get the Vote

Nellie McClung and the Suffrage Movement
http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/exhibits/timemach/galler10/frames/index.htm

Emily Murphy
http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?id=10205

 

Lesson 1.2P: Canadians in Russia - The Bolshevik Revolution

Canadian Foreign Policy and Intervention in Siberia
http://www.rootsweb.com/~canmil/siberia/siberia1.htm

The Russian Revolution
http://www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk/russ/rusrev.html

 

Lesson 1.2Q: Labour Unrest - The Winnipeg General Strike

Winnipeg General Strike
http://www.histori.ca/peace/page.do?pageID=347

 

Lesson 1.2R: Cultural Assimilation - Residential Schools

The History of Residential Schools in Canada
http://www.afn.ca/residentialschools/history.html

 

Lesson 1.2S: Peace and Security - Versailles and the League of Nations

United Nations/League of Nations
http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/bookstor/kits/english/unintro/unintro.htm

United Nations Home Page
http://www.un.org/aboutun/

The Versailles Treaty
http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/text/versaillestreaty/vercontents.html

Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples Final Report
http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/ch/rcap/index_e.html

 

Section 1.3 From Boom to Bust - 1921-1930

Lesson 1.3A: Skill Builder - Cause-and-Effect Relationships<

Characteristics of Critical Thinking
http://cob.isu.edu/kreggaytes/CriticalThinkingChars.htm

 

Lesson 1.3B: The Roaring Twenties - The World in 1921

The Roaring Twenties
http://www.kidsnewsroom.org/elmer/infoCentral/frameset/decade/1920.htm

Important Events From the 1920s
http://www.fatherryan.org/harlemrenaissance/time.htm

 

Lesson 1.3C:Mass Media - Maintaining a Canadian Identity

Cultural Sovereignty and the Media
http://www.pch.gc.ca/progs/ac-ca/progs/ri-bpi/pubs/lincoln2005/04_e.cfm

National Film Board of Canada
http://www.nfb.ca/E/

Telefilm Canada
http://www.telefilm.gc.ca/accueil.asp

Canadian Conference of the Arts
http://www.ccarts.ca/

The Canada Council for the Arts
http://www.canadacouncil.ca/home-e.asp?Enhanced=True

Canadian Heritage
http://www.pch.gc.ca/english.htm

 

Lesson 1.3D: The Group of Seven - New Expressions in Art

The Group of Seven and their Contemporaries
http://www.mcmichael.com/collection/seven/index.cfm

The Group of Seven
http://www.tomthomson.org/groupseven/

 

Lesson 1.3E: Coming of Age - Canada Gains Independence

Government of Canada
http://www.canada.gc.ca/

 

Lesson 1.3F: King Versus Byng - The Role of the Governor General

Governor General of Canada
http://www.gg.ca/menu_e.asp

 

Lesson 1.3G: Government in Canada - The Canadian Constitution

Government of British Columbia
http://www.gov.bc.ca

Government of Canada
http://canada.gc.ca/howgoc/glance_e.html

Law Connection (Canadian Constitution)
http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/const/index.html

 

Lesson 1.3H: Social Programs - The Canada Pension Plan

The Canada Pension Plan: Basic Facts
http://www.cpp-rpc.gc.ca/fact/facte.htm

 

Lesson 1.3I: Taking to the Road - Canadians and the Automobile

Automobile History Links
http://www.michigan.gov/som/0,1607,7-192-29938_30240-53443--,00.html

Automotive 101
http://www.autoshop101.com/

 

Lesson 1.3J: Into the Bush - Aviation in Canada

Biplanes and Bush Pilots
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2005/06/01/vickers-050601.html

 

Lesson 1.3K: Stock Market Mania - The Crash of 1929

Stock Market Crash (New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/library/financial/index-1929-crash.html

Main Causes of the Great Depression
http://www.escape.com/~paulg53/politics/great_depression.shtml

 

Lesson 1.3L: Women and Politics - The Persons Case

Famous Five Nation Builders
http://www.abheritage.ca/famous5/educational/nation_builders.html

Women's Right to Vote
http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Parlinfo/Compilations/ProvinceTerritory/ProvincialWomenRightToVote.aspx

 

Lesson 1.3M: The Allied Tribes - Aboriginal Activism

First Nations Timeline
http://www.cariboolinks.com/ctc/history.html

Nisga'a History Timeline
http://www.schoolnet.ca/aboriginal/nisga1/hist-e.html

 

Lesson 1.3N: The National Progressives - Creating a Multiparty System

Canadian Government
http://canada.gc.ca/howgoc/glance_e.html

The Liberal Party
http://www.liberal.ca/default_e.aspx

The Progressive Conservative Party
http://www.conservative.ca/

The Reform Party
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0006737

The National Democratic Party
http://www.ndp.ca/Default.asp

The Bloc
http://www.blocquebecois.org/

 

Lesson 1.3O: Totalitarianism - Setting the Stage for War

Totalitarianism Source Page
http://www.angelfire.com/ma/totalitarianism/index.html

World War II Timeline
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/ww2time.htm

Benito Mussolini
http://gi.grolier.com/wwii/wwii_mussolini.html

The Rise of Adolf Hitler
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/index.htm


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