Previous Page (From Saskatchewan Education - Social Studies Curriculum - June 1995)

Suggested Approaches

UNIT TWO: HERITAGE - MODULE TWO - LOCAL COMMUNITY THEN AND NOW

  • Use brainstorming to identify all possible ways of accessing information about the community's past.
  • Learn about your community's past by learning about its celebrations, its buildings (take the interactive tour of Historical Saskatoon), and its people of the past.
  • Make a pictorial timeline or `History Book' about the community.
    As an ongoing activity, interview elderly citizens about their memories as children and adults.
  • Arrange to participate in a program at a local museum.
  • Use case studies to learn about local heroes (Remember Me Movie) in the past and present. Identify the qualities of people who are `heroes'. Include women, children, and people from minority groups.
  • Research the story behind the names of local places.(What's in a Name Activity).
  • Have the students do profiles of people in the community who have contributed in various ways (e.g., writing, music, sports, dance). Use the stories of Dr. James Miranda Barry and Dr. Elizabeth Bagshaw as examples.
  • The teacher may choose to have the students learn about transportation used in the past by groups such as Indian peoples and early immigrants.
  • Use various resources that illustrate lifestyle and technology on farms of the past.
  • Use drama in context to help the students express their understandings of the past.

UNIT THREE: INTERDEPENDENCE - MODULE THREE - COMMUNITIES MEET NEEDS AND WANTS

  • Have students generate a list of ways they can use to find information about people working in the community.
  • With the students explore the many different ways people work in the community.
  • Relate the occupations to meeting local needs and wants.
  • Arrange for students to visit various locations and conduct interviews with local people. Students may create profiles of people interviewed.
  • Tell the stories of the two women and their occupations, Denise Needham and Bonnie Tweedie. Identify and discuss people in the local community who are in nontraditional jobs.
  • Learn about health care in your community and the way it meets local needs and wants.
  • Role play a way to work (e.g., running a business like selling popcorn).
  • Identify the roles of the elderly in the community (their needs and wants and how they help meet the needs and wants of others).
  • Take students for a walk to discover the services provided in the community. Role play situations to show how we should look after services.
  • Identify various local industries. Make connections between them and meeting needs and wants.
  • Identify different methods of communication and transportation (development of a railline through Saskatoon and its impact on the growth of Saskatoon) in the community.
  • Deal with the importance of agriculture in the community.
  • The teacher may wish to compare the local community with one nearby that the students are familiar with.