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Social Studies
  • Grade 7 A, B, C

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Authority Power
  • People who are empowered feel that they have a
    lot of control over their lives.
  • Authority gives a person the ability to make
    decisions in a particular situation
  • Empowered people who are empowered feel that
    they have a lot of control over their lives.

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Authority Gives people Power!
  • When people are in positions of authority, they
    have the power to affect the lives of others.
    There is a chance that people in authority might
    use their power in ways that are not fair.
  • In Canada, our constitution protects us from
    being harmed this way. A constitution is a set of
    _________ that governments must follow.

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Legal milestones in growing up
  • As you get older, the law will give you the
    authority to have more and more power over your
    own life. The important thing to remember is that
    having power also means having the responsibility
    to use it wisely.

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Personal Empowerment
  • Personal Empowerment comes from having the
    ability to do something about your needs, wants,
    opinions, beliefs, and feelings. There are
    different ways to get this sense of empowerment.
  • What are some ways you can gain personal
    empowerment in your own life?

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Personal Empowerment
  • Learn all you can use school to your advantage
  • Know your rights Responsibilities
  • Be proud of your heritage
  • Make friends
  • Know where to go for help
  • Get a job Money life experience
  • Volunteer
  • Know where to go for help

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Review
  • Economic Empowerment
  • Political Empowerment
  • Cultural Empowerment
  • Societal Empowerment
  • National Empowerment

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Economic Empowerment
  • Economics is the study of how people work to
    create wealth
  • It includes how we produce, distribute, and
    consume goods and services.
  • Economic empowerment comes from having enough
    wealth to take care of your needs
  • In Canada wealth is distributed through a system
    where people work to earn money

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Economic Empowerment continued
  • In this system people with less money may have
    fewer choices when it comes to needs such as
    food, shelter, clothing, and education.

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Political Empowerment
  • Politics is a general term for all the things we
    do to organize ourselves, settle disagreements,
    and make decisions in our schools, communities,
    and countries.
  • Political empowerment comes from having a say in
    how things are organized and how decisions are
    made

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Political Empowerment continued
  • To become politically empowered in any situation,
    you need to learn as much as you can about the
    issues, think for yourself about what you
    consider to be the best decision, and work to
    convince others to do what you think in right.
  • How do we do this (make important decisions) in
    Canada?

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Cultural Empowerment
  • Culture is a way of life. It includes things such
    as language, food, clothing, as well such as
    important ideas such as spiritual beliefs.
  • Canada has many different cultures. Canada is a
    multicultural country.

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Cultural Empowerment continued
  • For a culture to stay strong, people need to
    remember their history, teach their language, and
    traditions to their children.
  • One way to become culturally empowered is to stay
    active in your culture and learn all you can.

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Societal Empowerment
  • Society involves everything people do when they
    live, work, and play together in communities.
  • Societal empowerment comes from all members of
    society being treated fairly and equally.

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Societal empowerment continued
  • There are often groups in society with more
    power. This might happen because the group is
    larger or wealthier.
  • Therefore it is important for people in authority
    to use their power wisely.
  • Also important for individuals to speak up if
    they think something is unfair.

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National Empowerment
  • Nation is another word for country. National
    empowerment comes from a nation having the power
    to make decisions for itself.
  • There are many important decisions that nations
    need to be able to make without other nations
    telling them what to do

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National Empowerment
  • Nations must be able to decide what to do with
    its natural resources.
  • If there are conflicts in the world each nation
    must be able to decide for itself whether or not
    to go to war.
  • Nations must use their power in responsible ways.

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National Empowerment
  • How can days like Canada day encourage national
    empowerment?

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Living with Disempowerment
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Disempowerment
  • Who were the Home Children

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Unit 2 -Distribution of WealthEconomic
Empowerment
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What will you learn in this unit?
  • You will learn how economic systems work.
  • You will learn how first nationals and Inuit
    economics worked in Canada.
  • You will learn about the economic opportunities
    that attracted Europeans to North America.

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In this unit, you will
  • Examine economies in the past (First Nations,
    Inuit, European Settlers)
  • Investigate the issues of economic security and
    poverty
  • Identify trends in economics that could affect
    your future (Story of Stuff YouTube video)

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What will you learn in this unit?
  • How the Canadian economy has changed over time.
  • You can use what youve learned in this unit to
    make plans for your own economic future.

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Economic empowerment
  • Economic empowerment means having enough money to
    meet your needs and a little extra for special
    things you want.
  • Another term for economic empowerment is economic
    security.

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The purpose of an economic system is to answer 3
questions
  • What goods and services do people want and need?
  • How can we produce theses goods and services?
  • How will we distribute them?

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The 3 Types of Economies
  • 1) Pre-Industrial Economy consisted of food and
    handmade goods
  • 2) Industrial Economies an economy that uses
    manufacturing technologies.
  • 3) Post-Industrial Economy Information services
    (phones, computers, etc) and manufactured goods

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Pre-Industrial Economy
  • Food Handmade Goods
  • Simple tools operated by human, wind, water or
    animal power
  • Family farms or hunting groups
  • Sharing, trading, or buying and selling

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Industrial Economy
  • The first industrial economy started in Europe.
    Industry is now part of economies in most regions
    of the world.
  • Manufactured goods and natural resources such as
    minerals

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Industrial Economy continued
  • Mostly buying and selling
  • Big factories
  • Mechanical tools such as steam and gas engines

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Post-Industrial Economy
  • Information services and manufactured goods
  • Big and small companies
  • Computers and the internet
  • Mostly buying and selling

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Economies of the First Nations and Inuit
Economies
  • Time immemorial - for as long as anyone can
    remember from the stories passed on by elders.
  • Economies of the First Nations and Inuit
    Economies depend on the natural resources
    available in the region.

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Terms
  • Aboriginal- "living in a land from earliest
    times" in other words the first people of a
    region.
  • Maritimes the region of land with the provinces
    of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward
    Island
  • Atlantic Canada Includes all maritime provinces
    plus Newfoundland and Labrador

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Three Groups of Aboriginal People in Canada
  • The Inuit mostly in Quebec and Labrador, (where
    the climate is too cold for trees to grow)
  • First Nations First peoples of the rest of the
    land that is now Canada includes Mikmaq,
    Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, and Innu
  • Metis The children of either Inuit or First
    Nations women and European Traders.

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Beliefs
  • All Inuit and First Nations societies have
    similar beliefs about the use of land and natural
    resources. They believe
  • 1. people and nature are not separate
  • 2. people are part of a natural system that
    includes all of nature

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Beliefs Continued
  • The land is seen as the source of life, and must
    be used wisely to ensure survival for future
    generations.
  • Respect and prayer is used to show give thanks
    for the resources.

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  • In most First Nation and Inuit communities they
    had things that were very different from today,
    for Example
  • 1)everyone helped with the production, and
    everyone shared equally in what was produced.
  • 2) First Nations and Inuits did not have Private
    Ownership- No individual had control over nay
    land.

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NewcomersEuropeans arrive c1500
  • Europeans left their homelands because
  • 1. wanted to own more land
  • 2. to spread their religion
  • 3. for individual economic opportunities

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Fish
  • The first resource to attract Europeans to North
    America was fish. Fist was an important part of
    the European diet.
  • Most Europeans consumed a lot of fish because of
    their religious beliefs. They could only eat fish
    and not meat on specific holidays.

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Furs
  • Europeans quickly learned about the quality of
    furs in North America. In particular, beaver
    pelts were in great demand in Europe for making
    hats.
  • Europeans traded goods such as blankets and
    firearms for furs trapped by First Nation Hunters

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The Impact of their arrival (contact)
  • Both groups realized they could benefit from each
    other Europeans interested in furs, and First
    Nations were interested in metal knives and pots.
    This was the beginning of the fur trade.

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Contact in the Maritimes
  • There were some conflicts between First Nations
    and Europeans from the beginning. They made
    treaties to help them get along in the future
  • Treaty an agreement between two or more nations
    to settle issues.

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Treaties
  • Between 1717-1779 many treaties were signed. They
    were called the Covenant Chain of Treaties or The
    Treaties of Peace and Friendship

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Results of the Treaties
  • 1) First Nations agreed to act peacefully to
    British
  • 2) British agreed to respect First Nations
    rights.
  • 3) First Nations did not agree to give up land or
    Natural resources to Britain.
  • 4) These treaties are still in force today.

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Effects of The Fur Trade
  • First Nations economies changed because of the
    fur trade.
  • They now started to hunt for more furs to trade
    for the goods they wanted.
  • The animal population was becoming to low for
    people to get what they needed

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Effects of European Settlement
  • Large numbers of newcomers began arriving, First
    Nations did not see it as a big problem, at
    first. They were used to sharing the land.
    However
  • European private ownership was something new to
    them, and did not mix well with their traditional
    economies

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Effects of European Settlement
  • Forest were being cut down
  • Fewer good hunting areas due to developments
  • Europeans taking over land near waterways that
    provided important food sources.

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The Effects of Europeans
  • Europeans were not sharing the land, they were
    taking more of it for themselves.
  • Many Europeans felt their economic, political,
    and cultural ideas were superior to First Nation
    ideas
  • None of this is what the First Nations had
    expected when they agreed to the treaties.

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Chapter 3 Economic Security
  • Capitalism a society where goods and services
    are distributed through buying and selling. Also,
    individuals can become as wealthy as they can.

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Basic idea of Capitalistic Economies
  • 1) Goods and services people need and want are
    produced by private companies to make a profit
    for that company.
  • 2) People usually buy what they want and need
    with wages they receive from working for or
    owning companies

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Comparing Socialism and Capitalism
  • Socialism - A society where the government should
    own and control major industries.

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Capitalism
  • Individual freedom is highly valued
  • Production of good and services is in the hands
    of individuals
  • Whether not people can meet their needs depends
    on their wealth
  • Competition is important to help create wealth
    and improve society

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Socialism
  • What is best fir the group is more important than
    individual freedom
  • Production of Good and Services is with
    Government
  • Every person should receive enough to meet their
    needs
  • Co-operation is important to help create wealth
    and improve society

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Is the issue black white?
  • Few countries are entirely capitalist or
    socialist, for example Canada is based on
    Capitalism, but offers some government programs
    to those in need

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Important Terms
  • Capital the money and other things invested in
    or "put into" a company to start it up and keep
    it running.
  • Profit is the money the business makes after
    being repaid for the investment and paying
    expenses.
  • Entrepreneur is a person who gets an idea to
    start up a business.

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Understanding Poverty
  • Poverty when the cost of meeting its basic
    needs is higher than its income.
  • Standard of living is a measure of how much
    buying power a family has.

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Understanding Poverty
  • Economic Security when your income is more than
    the cost of your basic needs.
  • Quality of Life all the other things we need
    and want that money can't buy.

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Economic Security
  • When part of an economic system changes it can
    cause major changes positive or negative
  • Positive new business can bring economic
    growth, jobs etc.
  • Negative if a business shuts down people lose
    jobs, this can cause a.. (See next slide)

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Poverty Cycle
  • Poverty Cycle when the same events keep
    happening over again, with the same results. Once
    you have reached the point where you dont have
    enough income to meet your needs, its hard to get
    what you need to improve your way of life.

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Poverty Cycle Examples
  • People living with poverty often have health
    issues, and have trouble finding meaningful
    employment.
  • People dont have cars to travel to work or to
    search for new work.

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Building Personal Capital
  • Personal Capital includes anything you have
    that can help you improve your economic
    situation.
  • Examples of personal Capital savings, property,
    skills, or materials

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Economic Security
  • Down payment paying a portion of the cost of
    something like a house when purchasing it up
    front.
  • Mortgage The money borrowed to purchase gig
    items like a house.

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Aspects of a mortgage
  • The family owns part and the bank owns part.
  • each month the family makes payments
  • As each payment is made, they own more of the
    house
  • At a certain point of time (ex. 20, 25, or 30
    years) the mortgage expires and you now own the
    house.

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Chapter 4 - Preparing the Future
  • You should knowWhat are the 4 types of
    employment sectors, and be able to explain them.

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Kinds of Jobs
  • Economists categorize the kinds of work people do
    into groups. These groups are called sectors.
  • There are four main economic sectors Primary
    Sector, Secondary Sector, Tertiary Sector, and
    Quaternary Sector

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Primary Sector
  • Work in this sector involves harvesting or
    extracting natural resources.
  • Examples of this sector include farming, fishing,
    forestry, and mining.
  • This kind of work formed the base of economies in
    all societies for thousands of years.

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Secondary Sector
  • Work in this sector is mostly construction or
    manufacturing. Construction involves building
    things such as homes, office towers, and bridges.
  • In manufacturing, raw materials are turned into
    useful products.

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Tertiary Sector
  • People working in this sector provide services to
    others. Examples include salespeople, bus
    drivers, medical professionals, actors, teachers,
    and government workers.

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Quaternary Sector
  • The most recent economic sector to develop
    involves working with ideas and information.
  • One kind of job in this sector is work in
    laboratories to research new ideas and create new
    products.
  • Examples include computer programmers, systems
    analysts, and computer operators.

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What is a diversified economy ?
  • An economic system that has a good balance of
    jobs in all sectors.
  • Why might having a diversified economy be a good
    thing? What might happen to an economy is there
    is only one economic system and that system shuts
    down?

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What is meant by a Global Economy?
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What are the 4 types of economies?
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What is meant by forecasting? Why is it used in
Economics
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Social Trends, Forecasting Demographics
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