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Learning from Labour |
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Unit Plan
Lesson Description
These series of lessons are designed to be flexible.
While the timing in these lessons is based on a 45 minute period, the stages can easily be extended and adapted to the needs of
your learners and to the time available.
These lessons can be used individually or in conjunction with the Grade 7 or 8 Ontario History or Language Arts Curriculum.
Issue/Generative Topic
Notes to Teacher(s)
The Labour Movement in Canada
Labour Standards (Employment Standards/Health and Safety
Regulations)
Labour Day
Organized Labour (Unions)
Child Labour
Urban vs. Rural Labour
Women and Labour
Immigration and the Racialization of Work
Human Rights as Workers Rights
The Future of the Labour Movement
The Ontario Social Studies History Geography curriculum
states that “the four concepts of historical thinking – historical
significance, cause and consequence, continuity and change,
historical perspective – underpin all thinking and learning in
history” (p. 130).
Historical Significance:
Why are these people, events or developments still important
today? How did they make an impact at the time and for how long
did that impact last?
Continuity and Change:
To what extent did these people, events or developments influence
our history? Did they have a positive or negative impact for
different individuals and groups? How did things change (and to
what degree) and how did they stay the same?
Cause and Consequence:
Why did the events or developments occur? What was the
personal agency exhibited by people to make the events occur?
Were the consequences intended or unintended? Who had power
at the time and who did not? Who took action and who did not?
Historical Perspective:
Why is an idea or belief that was accepted in the past not
appropriate today? How did different individuals or groups see
and react to events at the time? Why is that different from today?
Analyze the tension between conflicting past and present day
viewpoints about historic events.
Adapted from http://www.ohhfa.ca/media/Steps_to_Creation_
of_a_Heritage_Fair_Project_Revised.pdf