Unit Plan: Indian Residential Schools

Interdisciplinary / Grade 5

Big Ideas

Canada’s policies and treatment of minority peoples have negative and positive legacies.

Concepts:

  • Policy
  • Consequences
Essential Questions

Students will keep considering…

  • What is the impact of government policy?
Evaluative Criteria

Summative Assessment

  • Students will provide either a written or oral response that address the BIG Idea that Canada’s policies and treatment of minority peoples have negative and positive legacies.

Formative Assessment

  • Class discussion
  • Teacher check in
  • Group work
  • Think pair share
  • Timeline
Monitoring Progress

N/A

Resources

WEBSITES

TEXTS

Reflection

How will teachers and their students reflect on and evaluate the completed project?

Teacher Reflection

  • What aspects of the unit went well?
  • What did students struggle with?
  • What did you struggle with?
  • What would you add/revise the next time you taught this unit?
  • Were there any unintended outcomes?
  • Were students engaged?

Stage 1 – Desired Results

Big Ideas

Canada’s policies and treatment of minority peoples have negative and positive legacies.

Concepts:

  • Policy
  • Consequences
Transfer Goals

Students will be able to independently use their learning to…

  • Understand that the impact affected Indigenous peoples of Canada.
  • Understand how government policy can affect other people in different settings/situations.
Meaning

UNIT UNDERSTANDINGS:

Students will understand that…

  • N/A

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:

Students will keep considering…

  • What is the impact of government policy?

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Acquisition

CURRICULAR COMPETENCIES

Students will be skilled at…

  • Differentiating between intended and unintended consequences of events, decisions, and developments, and speculating about alternative outcomes (cause and consequence)
  • Making ethical judgments about events, decisions or actions that consider the conditions of a particular time and place and assessing appropriate ways to respond (ethical judgment)

CONTENT

Students will know…

  • Government policies and actions
  • The Indian Act
  • What effects residential schools had on Indigenous families and communities
  • Numbered treaties with Indigenous peoples
  • Reduction or relocation of Indigenous peoples on reserves

CORE COMPETENCIES

Which Core Competencies will be integrated into the unit?

Communication

  • Acquire, interpret, and present information

Critical and Creative Thinking

  • Question and Investigate

Personal and Social

  • Relationships and cultural contexts

The following resources are made available through the British Columbia Ministry of Education. For more information, please visit BC’s New Curriculum.

Big Ideas

The Big Ideas consist of generalizations and principles and the key concepts important in an area of learning. The Big Ideas represent what students will understand at the completion of the curriculum for their grade. They are intended to endure beyond a single grade and contribute to future understanding.


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Core Competencies

orangecommunicationCommunications Competency

The set of abilities that students use to impart and exchange information, experiences and ideas, to explore the world around them, and to understand and effectively engage in the use of digital media

bluethinkingThinking Competency

The knowledge, skills and processes we associate with intellectual development

greensocialSocial Competency

The set of abilities that relate to students’ identity in the world, both as individuals and as members of their community and society


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Curricular Competencies & Content

Curricular Competencies are the skills, strategies, and processes that students develop over time. They reflect the “Do” in the Know-Do-Understand model of curriculum. The Curricular Competencies are built on the thinking, communicating, and personal and social competencies relevant to disciplines that make up an area of learning.


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Additional Resources

 

First People's Principles of Learning

To read more about First People’s Principles of Learning, please click here.

For classroom resources, please visit the First Nations Education Steering Committee.