Atlantic Canada’s Connections by Sea

Atlantic Canada’s Connections by Sea

Lesson Overview

Grade Level

Time Required

Curriculum Connection (Province/Territory and course)

Students will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of culture, diversity and worldview recognizing the similarities and differences in various cultural, racial and ethnic perspectives. (Grade 4)

Students will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of the interactions among various people in the community. They will understand need for food clothing and shelter (Grade 4) / The basic needs of people are the same everywhere. (Grade 5)

Students will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of the interdependent relationships among individuals, societies, and the environment – locally, nationally and globally. They will understand that interdependence is a consistent and important factor in human relations everywhere (Grade 4) / in the role of the individual in the community. (Grade 5)

Students will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of the past and how it affects the present and the future. Students will understand that events are remembered with traditions and customs. (Grade 4)

Link to the Canadian Atlas Online (CAOL)

Explore by themes: Building a nation - Early Trade Networks

Additional Resources, Materials and Equipment Required

• Computer with Internet access & word processing access

• Your choice of recording information for the class at the front (overhead, poster paper, board)

• LCD projector

• Glue, scissors, color pencils, markers

• Modeling clay

• Copies of the map ‘Canada and the World’ by Canadian Geographic

• Map of Atlantic Canada:

  • http://www.tourismfredericton.ca/en/directionsmaps/resources/Atlantic_Canada.gif

  • http://canada.blog.uvm.edu/groupA/map.gif

• http://www.historicalatlas.ca/website/hacolp/contents.htm

  • CHAPTER: Exploring the Atlantic Coast 16th, 17th Centuries

• View the map of Canada on line:

  • http://geography.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://atlas.gc.ca/site/english/maps/reference/national/can%5Fpolitical%5Fe/referencemap%5Fimage%5Fview

• Blank outline map of Canada:

  • http://geography.about.com/library/blank/blxcanada.htm

• Outline map of the Atlantic Provinces: http://www.canadainfolink.ca/blankmap.htm (individual and group copies)

• Atlantic Canada’s Waterforms: Networks to the Past http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/atlas/lessonplan.aspx?ID=LESSON43

• Copies of student cards, “Primary Exploration Route” (attached)

• Copies of student “Activity Sheets #1,2, and 3” (attached)

• Copies of student assessment: “Self Evaluation” and “Peer Evaluation” (attached)

Main Objective

Learning Outcomes

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  Locate the various waterways in their provinces
  
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  Trace European exploration in Atlantic Canada
  
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  Produce a wall display of selected data
  
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  Work in groups to effectively present material to their class
  
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  Categorize and organize information for presentation
  

Lesson Extension Student Activity Sheet: Visual Literacy

This unit will base on visual literacy. The intent on focusing on visual literacy is to:

• Assist students in analyzing visual images to understand the creator’s technique and intent

• Enable students to achieve a considered response to a visual image

• Enable students to achieve a considered response to a text through creating a visual image.

Students will combine speaking and listening with a visual display through a photo essay. Students will:

• Draw the flag of the country where the explorer was born

• Create a stamp for each country the explorer visited

• Draw a picture of the explorer

• Create a gallery of their findings using information from

Assessment of Student Learning

1. 
   Formative: Demonstrate a skill
   

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  Peer & self-evaluation and teacher observation can be used to evaluate skills/ process.
  

2. 
   Communication:
   

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  Read for detail
  

3. 
   Inquiry:
   

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  Identify cause & effect
  

4. 
   Participation:
   

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  Explain the visual representations
  

5. 
   Products Created
   

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  Written Assignment
  
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  Portfolio
  

Further Reading

Link to Canadian National Standards for Geography

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  Map projection (distance, direction)
  

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  Latitude & longitude
  
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  Map, globe & atlas use
  

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  How cultures affects places and regions (cultural landscape)
  

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  River systems of Canada and the world
  

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  Population density, density & growth rates
  
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  Impact of human migration
  
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  Demographic transition
  
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  Providers of goods and services
  
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  Types and patterns of economic activity (primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary)
  

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  Places where people work / Transportation
  
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  Types of economic activity
  
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  Population density, density & growth rates
  
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  Human migration patters/ Forced & voluntary
  

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  Non–renewable resources
  
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  Earth’s natural resources
  

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  Physical and human characteristics of places change over time
  

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  Where is it located?
  

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  Locate, gather and process information from a variety of primary & secondary sources including maps (k-5)
  
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  Use maps to collect and/or compile geographic information (6-8)
  

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  Prepare maps to display geographic information
  
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  Construct graphs, tables and diagrams to display geographic information
  

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  Use maps to observe and interpret geographic relationships
  
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  Use photographs to observe geographic relationships (k-5)
  
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  Interpret information obtained from maps and geographic information systems
  

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  Present geographic information in the form of both oral and written reports accompanied by maps and graphs (k-5)
  
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  Develop & Present combinations of geographic information to answer geographic questions (6-8)
  

Student Activity Sheet #1:

Instructions on Locating Primary Exploration Routes

Complete the following chart on using the information presented on:

Student Activity Sheet #2: Research Outline

How European Explorers Contributed to Atlantic Canada

Pick an explorer that you would like to research and circle the name:

By completing this activity you will understand how lifestyles are interconnected with the different explorers from Europe.