Critical Challenge: Redesign Canada's Coat of Arms

Specific Outcomes

This critical challenge may address these outcomes:

Curriculum Outcomes Addressed: 20-1

Specific Outcome 1.1	-	Students will appreciate that understandings of identity, nation and nationalism continue to evolve (I, C)
Specific Outcome 1.2	-	Students will appreciate the existence of alternative views on the meaning of nation (I, C)
Specific Outcome 1.3	-	Students will appreciate how the forces of nationalism have shaped and continue to shape Canada and the world (I, TCC, GC)
Specific Outcome 1.4	-	Students will appreciate why peoples seek to promote their identity through nationalism (I, C)
Specific Outcome 1.5	-	Students will explore a range of expressions of nationalism (I, C)
Specific Outcome 1.6	-	Students will develop understandings of nation and nationalism (relationship to land, geographic, collective, civic, ethnic, cultural, linguistic, political, spiritual, religious, patriotic) (I, CC, LPP)
Specific Outcome 1.9	-	Students will analyze nationalism as an identity, internalized feeling and/or collective consciousness shared by a people (French Revolution and Napoleonic era, Canadian nationalism, Québécois nationalism, American nationalism, First Nations and Métis nationalism, Inuit perspectives) (I, TCC, C, CC)
Specific Outcome 1.10	-	Students will evaluate the importance of reconciling contending nationalist loyalties (Canadian nationalism, First Nations and Métis nationalism, ethnic nationalism in Canada, civic nationalism in Canada, Québécois nationalism, Inuit perspectives on nationalism) (I, TCC, C)
Specific Outcome 1.11	-	Students will evaluate the importance of reconciling nationalism with contending non-nationalist loyalties (religion, region, culture, race, ideology, class, other contending loyalties) (I, C, CC, LPP)
Specific Outcome S.1.1	-	Students will evaluate ideas and information from multiple sources
Specific Outcome S.1.2	-	Students will determine relationships among multiple and varied sources of information
Specific Outcome S.4.2	-	Students will develop inquiry strategies to make decisions and solve problems
Specific Outcome S.7.3	-	Students will draw pertinent conclusions based on evidence derived from research
Specific Outcome S.7.6	-	Students will integrate and synthesize argumentation and evidence to provide an informed opinion on a research question or an issue of inquiry
Specific Outcome S.8.1	-	Students will communicate effectively to express a point of view in a variety of situations
Specific Outcome S.8.3	-	Students will ask respectful and relevant questions of others to clarify viewpoints
Specific Outcome S.8.4	-	Students will listen respectfully to others
Specific Outcome S.8.5	-	Students will use a variety of oral, visual and print sources to present informed positions on issues
Specific Outcome S.8.8	-	Students will compose, revise and edit text
Specific Outcome S.8.9	-	Students will apply general principles of graphic layout and design to a document in process
Specific Outcome S.8.10	-	Students will understand that different types of information may be used to manipulate and control a message (e.g., graphics, photographs, graphs, charts and statistics)
Specific Outcome S.8.11	-	Students will apply principles of graphic design to enhance meaning and engage audiences

Curriculum Outcomes Addressed: 20-2

Specific Outcome 1.1	-	Students will appreciate that understandings of identity, nation and nationalism continue to evolve (I, C)
Specific Outcome 1.2	-	Students will appreciate the existence of alternative views on the meaning of nation (I, C)
Specific Outcome 1.3	-	Students will appreciate how the forces of nationalism have shaped, and continue to shape, Canada and the world (I, TCC, GC)
Specific Outcome 1.4	-	Students will appreciate why peoples seek to promote their identity through nationalism (I, C)
Specific Outcome 1.5	-	Students will explore a range of expressions of nationalism (I, C)
Specific Outcome 1.6	-	Students will develop understandings of nation and nationalism (relationship to land, geographic, collective, civic, ethnic, cultural, linguistic, political, spiritual, religious, patriotic) (I, CC, LPP)
Specific Outcome 1.9	-	Students will examine nationalism as an identity, internalized feeling and/or collective consciousness shared by a people (French Revolution, Canadian nationalism, Québécois nationalism, First Nations and Métis nationalism, Inuit perspectives) (I, TCC, C, CC)
Specific Outcome 1.10	-	Students will analyze the importance of reconciling contending nationalist loyalties (Canadian nationalism, First Nations and Métis nationalism, ethnic nationalism in Canada, Québécois nationalism, Inuit perspectives on nationalism) (I, TCC, C)
Specific Outcome 1.11	-	Students will analyze the importance of reconciling nationalism with contending non-nationalist loyalties (religion, region, culture, race, ideology, class, other contending loyalties) (I, C, CC, LPP)
Specific Outcome S.1.1	-	Students will analyze ideas and information from multiple sources
Specific Outcome S.1.2	-	Students will determine relationships among multiple sources of information
Specific Outcome S.4.2	-	Students will use inquiry processes to make decisions and solve problems
Specific Outcome S.7.1	-	Students will develop and express an informed position on an issue
Specific Outcome S.7.2	-	Students will develop conclusions based on evidence gathered through research of a wide variety of sources
Specific Outcome S.8.1	-	Students will communicate effectively in a variety of situations
Specific Outcome S.8.2	-	Students will engage in respectful discussion
Specific Outcome S.8.3	-	Students will use a variety of oral, visual and print sources to present informed positions on issues
Specific Outcome S.8.4	-	Students will ask respectful and relevant questions of others to clarify viewpoints on an issue

C	Citizenship
ER	Economics and Resources
CC	Culture and Community

I	Identity
LPP	The Land: Places and People
GC	Global Connections

TCC	Time, Continuity and Change
PADM	Power, Authority, and Decision Making