Grade 10: Industrial Evolution in the Interior of BC

Extensions

• Classes in areas with easy access to the towns focused on in this lesson would ideally arrange to visit their heritage areas and museums. Preparation prior to the excursion and debriefing after it are necessary for a successful visit.
  
• Students with a particular interest in science and technology could do in-depth research in conventional or on-line sources on the modern technologies in mining exploration and exploitation in the gold rush at Wells.
  
• Students with a particular interest in economics and business could do in-depth research in conventional or on-line sources to place the Wells gold rush against the backdrop of the Great Depression of the 1930s and its economic and social impact on British Columbia and, more generally, on Canada.
  
• The economic roles of particular groups-women, miners and engineers, migrants, business entrepreneurs-could form the focus of in-depth research in conventional or on-line sources. Direct students to access BC Archives: Visual Record: http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/visual/visual.htm to illustrate their projects.
  
• Integrate the Social Studies learning that is occurring in this lesson with learning related to the Grade 10 English Language Arts curriculum (e.g., if team teaching with an English teacher) by assessing the expressive and technical aspects of students' perspective papers (i.e., consider grammatical accuracy, use of analogy or figurative language, organization of thought to avoid redundancy). Students can be asked to edit their own (or each others' work) and then produce improved, edited versions (see learning outcomes identified for Grade 10 English: http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/irp/).