Ontario Grade 12 CHI4U Canada: History, Identity, and Culture (Grade 12, University Preparation)
Chapters: 5
1. A. Historical Inquiry and Skill Development
A1 Historical Inquiry · A2 Developing Transferable Skills
- The Scientific Method – The scientific method is the careful way scientists find out how the world works. Observe something, ask a testable question, make a hypothesis (a clear, testable guess), test it with a fair experiment (change one variable, measure one, keep the rest the same), repeat and record data, analyse it, draw a conclusion and share it so others can check. Results that fail the test are useful too: they send you back to a new hypothesis.
- Career Planning: From Knowing Yourself to Your First Job – Career planning has five steps. 1) Know yourself: interests, skills and values. 2) Explore career families and find out the work, study needed, pay and demand. 3) Plan a pathway with SMART goals and a plan B. 4) Search for jobs with a CV, cover letter, digital portfolio and interview practice. 5) Make the move from school to work and keep learning, because careers change over a lifetime.
2. B. Canada, Origins to 1774
B1 Setting the Context · B2 Interactions and Interdependence · B3 Diversity and Citizenship
- Civics and Government: How Citizens and Governments Work Together – Civics is the study of how people govern themselves and how citizens take part. In a democracy, power comes from the people, who choose representatives in free elections. Government has three branches: the legislature makes laws, the executive carries them out and the judiciary checks they follow the constitution. Most countries also have levels of government (local, state or provincial, national), each with its own jobs. A law starts as an idea, becomes a bill, is debated and voted on, and gets final approval. Citizens have rights, such as free speech and voting, and responsibilities, such as obeying laws and respecting others. Active citizens stay informed, vote, volunteer and work peacefully for change.
- Canada's History: Groups, Conflict and Cooperation – Canada's story is a story of groups meeting: First Nations, Inuit and Métis, French and British settlers, later Quebec, immigrants and the wider world. In each era some meetings were cooperation (trade, alliances, Confederation, treaties) and some were conflict (wars, rebellions, conscription crises, harmful policies). Seeing both helps explain Canadian identity today.
3. C. Canada, 1774–1867
C1 Setting the Context · C2 Interactions and Interdependence · C3 Diversity and Citizenship
- Civics and Government: How Citizens and Governments Work Together – Civics is the study of how people govern themselves and how citizens take part. In a democracy, power comes from the people, who choose representatives in free elections. Government has three branches: the legislature makes laws, the executive carries them out and the judiciary checks they follow the constitution. Most countries also have levels of government (local, state or provincial, national), each with its own jobs. A law starts as an idea, becomes a bill, is debated and voted on, and gets final approval. Citizens have rights, such as free speech and voting, and responsibilities, such as obeying laws and respecting others. Active citizens stay informed, vote, volunteer and work peacefully for change.
- Canada's History: Groups, Conflict and Cooperation – Canada's story is a story of groups meeting: First Nations, Inuit and Métis, French and British settlers, later Quebec, immigrants and the wider world. In each era some meetings were cooperation (trade, alliances, Confederation, treaties) and some were conflict (wars, rebellions, conscription crises, harmful policies). Seeing both helps explain Canadian identity today.
4. D. Canada, 1867–1945
D1 Setting the Context · D2 Interactions and Interdependence · D3 Diversity and Citizenship
- Civics and Government: How Citizens and Governments Work Together – Civics is the study of how people govern themselves and how citizens take part. In a democracy, power comes from the people, who choose representatives in free elections. Government has three branches: the legislature makes laws, the executive carries them out and the judiciary checks they follow the constitution. Most countries also have levels of government (local, state or provincial, national), each with its own jobs. A law starts as an idea, becomes a bill, is debated and voted on, and gets final approval. Citizens have rights, such as free speech and voting, and responsibilities, such as obeying laws and respecting others. Active citizens stay informed, vote, volunteer and work peacefully for change.
- Canada's History: Groups, Conflict and Cooperation – Canada's story is a story of groups meeting: First Nations, Inuit and Métis, French and British settlers, later Quebec, immigrants and the wider world. In each era some meetings were cooperation (trade, alliances, Confederation, treaties) and some were conflict (wars, rebellions, conscription crises, harmful policies). Seeing both helps explain Canadian identity today.
5. E. Canada Since 1945
E1 Setting the Context · E2 Interactions and Interdependence · E3 Diversity and Citizenship
- Civics and Government: How Citizens and Governments Work Together – Civics is the study of how people govern themselves and how citizens take part. In a democracy, power comes from the people, who choose representatives in free elections. Government has three branches: the legislature makes laws, the executive carries them out and the judiciary checks they follow the constitution. Most countries also have levels of government (local, state or provincial, national), each with its own jobs. A law starts as an idea, becomes a bill, is debated and voted on, and gets final approval. Citizens have rights, such as free speech and voting, and responsibilities, such as obeying laws and respecting others. Active citizens stay informed, vote, volunteer and work peacefully for change.
- Canada's History: Groups, Conflict and Cooperation – Canada's story is a story of groups meeting: First Nations, Inuit and Métis, French and British settlers, later Quebec, immigrants and the wider world. In each era some meetings were cooperation (trade, alliances, Confederation, treaties) and some were conflict (wars, rebellions, conscription crises, harmful policies). Seeing both helps explain Canadian identity today.