Newfoundland and Labrador Studies 2205

Unit 1: Social Studies Concepts and Skills - 1. Culture and Diversity

Using the arts and principles of artistic inquiry to explore and express ideas about culture, heritage, and identity in Newfoundland and Labrador.

• Examining creative works through artistic inquiry
• Creating art to express identity

Unit 2: Social Studies Concepts and Skills - 2. Inquiry and Research

Applying an issues-analysis model and second-order social science concepts to explore economic, political, and social issues in Newfoundland and Labrador, past and present.

• Applying an issues-analysis model
• Using social science concepts of analysis

Unit 3: Anthropology - 3. Culture and Diversity

The concept of culture - its elements, the factors that shape it, and the factors that change it - as it applies to Newfoundland and Labrador.

• The elements of culture
• Factors that shape culture
• Factors that change culture

Unit 4: History - 4. People, Place, and Environment

The peopling of Newfoundland and Labrador to the mid-1700s - the earliest inhabitants, the establishment of European migratory fisheries, and their consequences for First Nations and Inuit.

• The earliest peoples of Newfoundland and Labrador
• The rise of the European migratory fisheries
• The migratory fishery and its consequences

Unit 5: History - 5. Individuals, Societies, and Economic Decisions

How the fishery influenced Newfoundland and Labrador from the mid-1700s to the late 1800s, and how economic issues influenced its peopling from the late 1800s to 1934.

• The emergence of the resident fishery
• The resident fishery, its consequences, and remembering the Beothuk
• The colony's evolving political status

• Economic diversification
• Changing lifestyles and cultures
• Significant experiences to 1934

Unit 6: History - 6. Time, Continuity, and Change

Economic, political, and social change in Newfoundland and Labrador from 1934 to the end of the Smallwood Administration, and since 1972.

• Entry into Confederation
• Challenges of the Smallwood administration
• Changing lifestyles and cultures under Smallwood

• Changes in the economy since 1972
• Challenges of governance since 1972
• Changing lifestyles and cultures since 1972