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Description: Student's are encouraged to analyze Canada's role in supporting the United Nations during the Korean War.
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Description: Students explore a CBC Archives website to gather some first impressions and background information on the Cold War era and its impact on Canadian society and politics.
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Description: Presents an educational activity for senior high school students involving similarities and differences between the reports of Matthew Halton, reporter and war correspondent during the Second World War, and news reports from the 2003 war in Iraq. Provides an introduction, purpose, tasks, process and links to WWII CBC media clips as well as news reports from the 2003 war in Iraq.
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Description: Resources that encourage students to: evaluate the role of media during wartime; examine daily life, emotions, and reactions to nature from the point of view of soldiers stationed at the front; and identify major events of the Second World War through the eyes of a soldier and of those left at home.
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Description: In order to understand why Canadian veterans of the Korean War are called 'forgotten heroes' students explore what it means to be a hero.
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Description: Students gather information and impressions to write an imaginary letter from a soldier in Somalia to his/her family in Canada.
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Description: Investigates government and personal measures taken in order to ensure survival in the event of a nuclear war.
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Description: Assignments and activities regarding Canadian peacekeeping initiatives in Somalia.
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Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |
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Description: In these activities, students will have the opportunity to identify and explain what makes a hero, to write diary entries in role as a soldier in the Korean War, to write an editorial from the point of view of a Canadian newspaper in the 1950s either supporting or opposing Canada's involvement in the conflict, to prepare a brief to the federal government regarding the need to honour and memorialize Canadian veterans of the Korean War, and to compare Canada's involvement in the War on Terrorism to Canada's involvement in the Korean War.
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Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |
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Description: Students hold a forum highlighting a variety of points of view on the Somalia affair.
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Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |
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