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Description of topic: First contact between Europeans and indigenous populations around the world is a common theme in Social Studies 10-1. This lesson will have students use the knowledge they have learned from the past and apply it in a modern setting. They will think of advice to give to a isolated tribe in the Amazon who have recently emerged from isolation and have started to make contact with the outside world.
Goals/Learning Outcomes:
- examine impacts of cultural contact between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples (exchange of goods and technologies, depopulation, influences on government and social institutions)
- recognize and appreciate historical and contemporary consequences of European contact, historical globalization and imperialism on Aboriginal societies
- have students collaborate while responding to the issue in the lesson
Lesson Description: Students will complete the activity, First contact in the news. This activity asks student to offer advice to tribe of natives making contact with the outside world for the first time. The document provided is a "class" document in which all there answers will be shared thanks to the collaborative ability of a Google Doc. Students will be able to see their classmates responses develop in real time. The activity is included below.
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