Fill out the change web with your response to this question.
Question:
"The school board is seriously considering the introduction of year-round schooling. Your
task is to determine how you, your family, and the community will potentially be affected by this change."
Technology and Change:
An economic or cultural event, like a political decision or military action abroad, or a single invention can change
our everyday lives.
Current modes of travel: How do you get to school? How long does
it take? Do any of you communicate with friends or relatives who live far away? How do you communicate with
them?
1871, 1911, 2001.
Using these dates I want you to consider:
How might a note to a friend get from Vancouver to Halifax in 1871? In 2001? How long would it take? What
technology would be used?
Record your answer at the bottom of the page.
BLM 1.3, "Changing Technologies." Consider the six selected events listed on that
BLM which mark major technological changes affecting Canadians. On your own, answer
the question: "In what ways do you think each of these changes would have affected the lives of ordinary
Canadians?" If you can think of specific events or ideas studied earlier this year during our 'Confederation' Unit, include those ideas when you respond to the question.
Extension Activity: The World Wide Web: Assessing the effects of a current change.
Using BLM 1.2. Repeat the process for the new topic: "What have been the effects on society of the introduction of the World Wide
Web?"
BLM 1.4 Introduction to the Industrial Revolution. You are to consider the following: What do
you suppose were the causes of the great number of inventions and technological improvements during the late
19th century? How would these changes affect a young country like Canada? If you were living in this time
period, where in Canada do you think you would most like to have lived? Why? Which of the inventions or
technological changes would you like to know the most about?
The focus: This should lead you to think about the multiple and interrelated effects of a single
invention. For instance, the introduction of the personal computer and the World Wide Web has altered the way
we communicate, pay our bills, entertain ourselves, and learn.
Think about the kinds of things that
can happen when a series of significant inventions occur at the same time.
For homework: write a list of ideas in response to the question: "How did
society change as a result of the Industrial Revolution?"
