To understand the Battle of Hong Kong and Canada’s role in the Pacific during the Second World War, we must first gain some general knowledge and understanding of why the war happened and how it affected the entire world, including Asia and the Pacific region. This activity serves both as a way to introduce World War II to your students and as a quiz for our exhibition Impossible Odds: The Battle of Hong Kong.
This activity was first designed to accompany our exhibition Impossible Odds: the Battle of Hong Kong. The exhibition is also available for free to your school by completing our reservation form.
Activity content
Using the student guide, students will review basic concepts related to the Second World War in the first part of the activity. In the second part, they will then have three options for exploring the context of the Battle of Hong Kong: a map to fill, a chronology to explore and a series of short questions to answer. Students can find the answers for this activity in our travelling or virtual exhibit Impossible Odds: the Battle of Hong Kong.
The teacher’s guide describes the educational objectives of the activity and provides the necessary corrections.
Activity objectives
The goal of these activities is to allow secondary cycle two students to have a greater understanding of World War II and Canada’s role in the Battle of Hong Kong. Students will also learn to appreciate the contributions of Canadian Armed Forces personnel from Quebec.
These activities were created as educational tools to complement the Quebec Education Program of secondary 4 History and secondary 5 History of the 20th and Contemporary World courses. In addition, these activities can also be used as language tools in the following courses: Francais langue maternelle (in secondary 3, 4 and 5), Français, secondary language, English, secondary language (in secondary 3, 4 and 5) and English Language Arts.
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