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Grade 8 History /Strand B: Canada, 1890-1914: A Changing Society
Lesson Series Title:: Buy This!
This lesson series introduces students to the purchasing practices and challenges in the early 1900s with a focus on the mail-order catalogue. Students will explore the impact of industrialization and urbanization on the purchasing practices of people at this time, and compare those practices and challenges to those of Canadians today. Students will then begin to formulate inquiry questions using Historical Thinking : Continuity and Change
Financial Literacy Focus
Students formulate questions about products available in the early 1900s, how they were advertised and purchased, and how those practices influenced social values and consumption. Students will also analyze how these practices and values have changed or stayed the same over time.