Atlantic Canada
Inquiry question: What makes our Canadian footprint?
Focus question: You have been chosen as a contestant on the amazing race. What important geographical features, history and natural resources from Atlantic Canada would be important for you to be successful in winning the Amazing Race: Canada Edition?
Focus question: You have been chosen as a contestant on the amazing race. What important geographical features, history and natural resources from Atlantic Canada would be important for you to be successful in winning the Amazing Race: Canada Edition?
Outcomes:
By the end of this unit students should be able to understand the following grade 5 outcomes:
- I can appreciate the variety and abundance of natural resources.
- I can appreciate the diversity of geographical features.
- I can appreciate the diverse ways that people have of living with the land.
- I can appreciate the geographic vastness of Canada.
- I can identify the major geographical regions of Canada.
- I can identify how landforms, bodies of water and natural resources affect the quality of life in Canada.
- I can explain how Aboriginal cultures are unique in each of the western, northern, central and eastern regions of Canada.
- I can identify the major landforms in Canada
- I can explain what the stories of British peoples tell us about the British history, culture and presence in Canada.
- I can acknowledge British influence and presence in Canada
- I can acknowledge the roots of Francophone identity and presence in Canada
- I can identify what the stories of the United Empire Loyalists tell us about British culture and presence in Canada.
- I can explain how the diversity of the United Empire Loyalists contributed to Canadian diversity.
Sable Island
Longitude and Latatitude
Disasters in Atlantic Canada
Halifax Explosion
http://archives.cbc.ca/war_conflict/first_world_war/topics/971/
http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/ssvs/movieLauncher.html?smil=halifax_explosion.smil
http://museum.gov.ns.ca/mma/AtoZ/HalExpl.htmlhttp://www.cbc.ca/halifaxexplosion/he1_promise/index.html
http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/ssvs/movieLauncher.html?smil=halifax_explosion.smil
http://museum.gov.ns.ca/mma/AtoZ/HalExpl.htmlhttp://www.cbc.ca/halifaxexplosion/he1_promise/index.html
Ocean Ranger Disaster
Hurricane Juan
http://www.ec.gc.ca/ouragans-hurricanes/default.asp?lang=En&n=F0E43FF7-1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Juan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Juan
Maramachi Fire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miramichi_Fire
http://www.nald.ca/library/learning/miramichi/fire/fire.pdf
http://rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nbnorthu/fire.htm
http://www.nald.ca/library/learning/miramichi/fire/fire.pdf
http://rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nbnorthu/fire.htm
Mysteries of Canada
Archaeologists
First Nations
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/settlement/kids/021013-2091.6-e.html
Title:Welcome to the Mi'kmaq Portraits Collection
Host:Nova Scotia Museum
Description:The Web site contains portraits and illustrations of the Mi'kmaq of Atlantic Canada
Navigation Tips:Scroll down to access complete text and images. Scroll over the menu bar and click on a topic from the dropdown menu to access information.
URL:http://museum.gov.ns.ca/mikmaq/
Host:Nova Scotia Museum
Description:The Web site contains portraits and illustrations of the Mi'kmaq of Atlantic Canada
Navigation Tips:Scroll down to access complete text and images. Scroll over the menu bar and click on a topic from the dropdown menu to access information.
URL:http://museum.gov.ns.ca/mikmaq/
Immigrants
British Immigrants
http://content.blackgold.ca/ict/Divison2/Histories%20and%20Stories%20of%20Ways%20of%20Life%20in%20Canada/british_isle_immigrants.htm
Other European Immigrants http://content.blackgold.ca/ict/Divison2/Histories%20and%20Stories%20of%20Ways%20of%20Life%20in%20Canada/other_european_immigrants.htm
http://content.blackgold.ca/ict/Divison2/Histories%20and%20Stories%20of%20Ways%20of%20Life%20in%20Canada/british_isle_immigrants.htm
Other European Immigrants http://content.blackgold.ca/ict/Divison2/Histories%20and%20Stories%20of%20Ways%20of%20Life%20in%20Canada/other_european_immigrants.htm