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Lesson Plan

Financial challenges facing Canadian workers

In this lesson, students will write and receive letters from Canadian workers in the 20th and 21st century to explore and compare financial challenges that workers experienced in these periods.

Ontario Curriculum Based

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  • Grade Level: 8
  • Course(s)/Subject(s):

    Social Studies, grades 1 to 6
    History and Geography, grades 7 and 8 (2013)

  • Learning Goals:

    At the end of this lesson, students will:

     

    • enhance their financial vocabulary
    • describe how current events related to finance can affect families (i.e., how globalization affects the finances and financial opportunities of working families)
    • describe consequences of financial decisions
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