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CURRICULUM TIES

GRADE 8

ACTIVITIES:

GROUP QUESTIONS

8.2 Origins of a Western Worldview: Renaissance Europe

       How did the physical geography of Renaissance Europe affect trade and competition among European countries?

  • Students will answer this question first and compare it to modern day society.

  • How does competition effect the world today?  How does your own geography effect your day to day life? What are symbols in your society that prove competition exist (clothes, food ect)

  • Based on your current understanding of Renaissance Europe what was important to people back then and what is important to people today? What role do you think competition played in this?

  • Today technology allows us to exchange of ideas and knowledge easily. How can this shape the current world view? How can people change the western view today?

 

VIDEO REFLECTION ASSIGNMENT

 

Competition Today and the economies effect on people

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_mA9L1DSr8

Questions:

  • How did the video make you feel?

  • How has the societal context changed?

  • How have the values of people changed over time?

  • Seeing these different perspectives how do you think their perspective differs from your own?

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

Small Research Project:

 

 Because of trade today people have access to different kind’s food, clothing and materials. Go home and find five items from 5 different countries. These items could be clothing, food or anything, after you have gathered all of the items, do a small reflection keeping the following questions in mind.

  1. How has culture in the west changed because of trade?

  2. What benefits does international trade give you?

  3. What are the negative effects of Trade? (Go light into this)

  4. What are the major exporting countries in the world?

  5. What role does poverty play in international trade?

 

OBJECTIVE:

 

The assignments will allow students to think critically about their own society and some of the positive and negative effects on trade. Students will also get an idea of how trade has changed over the years with the western world dominating the trade industry.

 

This relates to the course outcomes while touching upon ethics and a sustainable economy

 

Students will see how capitalism has

shifted society’s beliefs into a materialistic culture, it was also provide students with an emotional experience through paralleling a life of poverty to their own.

8.1.1   Appreciate the roles of time and geographic location in shaping a society’s worldview

(C, I, TCC, LPP)

8.1.4   appreciate how a society’s worldview shapes individual citizenship and identity (C, I, TCC)

8.2.3    recognize how beliefs and values are shaped by time, geographic location and societal

context (C, TCC, LPP)

 8.3.3   Appreciate and recognize how rapid adaptation can radically change a society’s beliefs, values and knowledge (TCC, GC)

Skills and Processes - 8.S.1., 8.S.5, 8.S.6., 8.S.8.

Values and Attitudes - 8.3.3.

Lesson Plan:

Critically address the individual's ability or responsibility have to create sustainable food sources while thinking about how Canadian agriculture has rapidly changed in recent years and what changes they could do to maintain more sustainable agriculture

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