Overview: Students will explore the government’s approach to building dams and consider social and cultural impacts of the approaches. They will learn local history around the river development, consider Indigenous connections to the watershed and compare conflicts of interest before reflecting on how issues have been approached in the past and how they could be better addressed in the future.
Module 2 lesson 4: Social and cultural impacts of dams
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