Continuity of Government

Grade 7–8 Language (English/French Immersion): Learn different skills for oral communication and critical thinking, as well as organizing ideas and presenting findings through engaging in a war cabinet debate.

• Strand: Oral Communication

Grade 7–8 Drama: Role play as the war cabinet in 1986, with students taking on the different roles of different ministers in the government and engage in a debate based on a real scenario used when this was a military base.

• Strand: Creating and Presenting

Grade 7 Geography: Learn about how human activities could affect our physical environment and complete a mini-inquiry while role-playing as the government making decisions.

• Strand A: Physical Patterns in a Changing World

Grade 7 Science and Technology: Learn about how technologies in the 20th century impacted the environment and experience how the government considers science and environmental impacts while making decisions.

• Strand B: Interactions in the Environment

Grade 8 Geography: Learn about the impacts that different conflicts like the Cold War had on settlement and on the physical environment while completing an inquiry on a specific settlement scenario from this period.

• Strand A: Global Settlement, Patterns, and Sustainability

Grade 8 Science and Technology: Learn about historical systems and structures and experience how the government considers science and environmental impacts while making decisions.

• Strand D: Systems in Action

Grade 9 Geography: Learn about how human activities like nuclear war could affect our environment and how governments respond to these risks.

• Strand B: Physical Geography and Physical Processes in Canada

Grade 10 History: Learn about Canada's response to the Cold War and Canada's relationship with the United States during it while exploring the cause and consequence of government decisions.

• Strand D: Canada, 1945–1982
• Strand E: Canada, 1982 to the Present

Grade 10 Civics: Learn about the structure of Canada's federal government and explore different ministries' perspectives while proposing different courses of action to an issue.

• Strand B: Civic Awareness
• Strand C: Civic Engagement, Service, and Action

Grade 11 American History: Immerse yourself in the Cold War period and examine the political relationships that America had with other countries through role-playing as the Canadian war cabinet during this period.

• Strand E: The United States since 1945

Grade 11 World History: Learn about the Cold War and the actions of different governments during the conflict while experiencing what it was like to make decisions during this period.

• Strand D: The Cold War Years, 1945–1991

Grade 11 Politics: Learn more about how the Canadian government and different prime ministers responded to the Cold War and get the chance to propose your own courses of action to a scenario from this time.

• Strand C: Policy, Politics, and Democratic Change
• Strand D: Personal Action on a Political Issue

Grade 11 Forces of Nature: Learn about a potential human disaster and consider geographic perspective while coming up with a plan to respond in the context of the Cold War.

• Strand B: The Physical Environment, Sustainability and Stewardship

Grade 12 Canada: History, Identity, and Culture: Learn about the culture in Canada during the Cold War and how Canada's policies and work with other countries impacted our nation's identity.

• Strand E: Canada since 1945

Grade 12 World History since 15th C: Learn about the Cold War and examine first-hand how this period caused disagreements and cooperation between different countries and groups.

• Strand E: The World since 1900

Grade 12 Politics: Learn about how the conflict of the Cold War has influenced politics, especially in Canada, and experience how political decisions impacted other countries in this period.

• Strand B: Political Foundations
• Strand C: Governments and Canadian and International Politics

Grade 9–12 English/French Immersion: Learn different skills for oral communication and critical thinking, as well as organizing ideas and presenting findings through engaging in a war cabinet debate.

• Strand: Oral Communication

Grade 9–12 Drama: Role play as the war cabinet in 1986, with students taking on the different roles of different ministers in the government and engage in a debate based on a real scenario used when this was a military base.

• Strand A: Creating and Presenting

History and Citizenship (I–II): Learn about the social phenomena from the Cold War period and experience the role that public institutions like the government played in these.

• Competency 1: Examines social phenomena from a historical perspective
• Competency 2: Interprets social phenomena using the historical method
• Competency 3: Constructs his/her consciousness of citizenship through the study of history

Geography (I–II): Explore a regional territorial issue during the Cold War and how countries could mutually benefit from each other in this period.

• Competency 1: Understands the organization of a territory
• Competency 2: Interprets a territorial issue
• Competency 3: Constructs his/her consciousness of global citizenship

History of Quebec and Canada (III–IV): Learn about Canada's response to the Cold War and interpret a specific scenario looking at a potential social phenomenon from the period.

• Competency 1: Characterizes a period in the history of Quebec and Canada
• Competency 2: Interprets a social phenomenon
• Specific Periods:
  • 1945–1980 The modernization of Quebec and the Quiet Revolution
  • From 1980 to our times: Societal choices in contemporary Quebec

Cultural Geography (V): Learn about the Cold War and its effects on Western regional areas and interpret a scenario examining the changes that could have occurred in this time.

• Competency 1: Deconstructs landscapes in the cultural area
• Competency 2: Interprets the dynamics of a cultural area
• Specific Concept: Western Cultural Area

History of the 20th C (V): Learn about how the world was divided from the Cold War and experience what it was like for governments to make decisions around continuity and change in this period.

• Competency 1: Characterizes a historical turning point
• Competency 2: Interprets a social phenomenon using the historical method
• Specific Timeline: A Divided World

Contemporary World (V): Pretending to be a war cabinet, examine a world issue from the time of the Cold War, establishing points of view and debating the topic as a class.

• Competency 1: Interprets a contemporary world problem
• Competency 2: Takes a position on a contemporary world issue
• Specific Concepts: Population, Power, Tensions, and Conflict

Language English or French (I–V): Taking what you learn about the Cold War, engage in a war cabinet debate, producing oral productions and collaborating with peers on ideas.

• English - Competency 1: Uses language/talk to communicate and to learn
• French - Compétence 3 : Communiquer oralement selon des modalités variées

Drama (I–V) : Create a dramatic presentation based on a real scenario used when this was a military where students role play as different ministers in the governments and engage in a debate.

• Competency 1: Creates dramatic works
• Competency 2: Performs dramatic works