Topic outline

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  General

  • News forum
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  General Outcome Lesson Plans

  • 4.1 Alberta: A Sense of the Land

  • Natural Resources in Alberta: A Prairie Alphabet - Students gain a better understanding of natural resources, their locations, and the positive and negative effects of those resources on Albertans. File
  • 4.2 The Stories, Histories and Peoples of Alberta

  • Relationship to the Land: Hidden Buffalo - Through analysing the picture book Hidden Buffalo, students explore the relationship of the First Nations people to the land and create and illustration of that relationship. File
  • Museum In a Box: Building a Community - Using Object-Based Inquiry, students explore the stories of people's lives that objects tell. Students then analyse quality of life. File
  • Establishing Francophone Communities - Students explore the contribution of Francophone settlers in Alberta, and create diary entries to illustrate those lives and contributions. File
  • 4.3 Alberta: Celebrations and Challenges

  • Metis People in Alberta - Then and Now URL
  • 5.2 Histories and Stories of Ways of Life in Canada

  • Secret of the Dance - Students use the book Secret of the Dance to explore the importance of the potlatch while developing the skill of critical thinking. File
  • Passage to Canada - Using researched information, students create a powerful visual of the three greatest opportunities and the three most significant challenges of immigrating to Canada. File
  • Follow the Drinking Gourd - Students represent important aspects of immigrant cultures that populated Canada and their contributions. File
  • The Underground Railroad URL
  • Immigration: For Better or Worse? - Students develop criteria for quality of life, deciding if quality of life for immigrants to Canada was better or worse after immigration. File
  • 6.1 Citizens Participating in Decision Making

  • A Human Rights Timeline URL
  • MLAs vs. Cabinet Ministers - In this inquiry activity, students ask questions of MLAs and cabinet ministers discover the differences between their responsibilities. File
  • 6.2 Historical Models of Democracy: Ancient Athens and the Iroquois Confederacy

  • Athenian Social Structure and Decision Making - In this instructional activity, students explore social roles in ancient Athens to develop a meaningful understanding of the effect that social roles had on decision making. File
  • Athenian Social Structure and Decision Making - Students decide if Canadian or Athenian democracy is more democratic. File
  • Time Traveler Interview - Students write powerful questions and answers to create a fictional interview with an Athenian Citizen and an Iroquois Chief File
  • Collective Identity: Wampum Belt Challenge - Students explore the collective identity of their own culture. File
  • Want Ad Challenge - Students work within a group to make a decision about the most important attributes of the roles people played in history. File
  • Deciding on the Decision Model - Students examine the differences and similarities between democracies in history to understand the different ways of making decisions in contemporary Canada File
  • Political Cartoon Challenge - Students examine the values of equity and fairness are an important part of democracy File
  • Trading Card Challege - Students think symbolically and communicate information about the roles of men and women in Haudenosaunee society in a visual format. File
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  Skill Outcome Lesson Plans

  • Grade 4

  • Analysing Political Cartoons - Originally designed for grade six, this skill-based activity is adaptable to grade four. File
  • Detecting Bias in News Articles - Though this lesson was designed for Grade 6, it is easily adaptable for different grade levels. File
  • Supporting Positions Through Research and Debate - This challenge is adaptable for grade four. File
  • Grade 5

  • Analysing Political Cartoons - Originally designed for grade six, this skill-based activity is adaptable to grade five. File
  • Monthly Current Events Voice Thread - Learners share substantiated opinions about current affairs as relates to Canadian physical geography and natural environment. File
  • Detecting Bias in News Articles - Though this lesson was designed for Grade 6, it is easily adaptable for different grade levels. File
  • Supporting Positions Through Research and Debate - This challenge is adaptable for grade five. File
  • Grade 6

  • Analysing Political Cartoons - Students analyse techniques used to create an effective political cartoon and create of their own. File
  • Detecting Bias in News Articles - In this scaffolded activity, students explore information on detecting bias then analyse articles for bias to ultimately determine the trustworthiness of the article. File
  • Supporting an Opinion through Research and Debate - Students debate the topic of smoking in public areas. File
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  Unit Assessment Plan 6.1

  • Unit Assessment Plan Grade Outcome 6.1 File
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  Performance Assessments

  • 5.3 Canada: Shaping an Identity

  • The Great Depression - Students select images and create captions that describe how the Great Depression affected ways of life. File
  • 6.2 Historical Models of Democracy: Ancient Athens and the Iroquois Confederacy

  • The Haudenosaunee Confederacy URL
  • Democracy or Not . . . You Be the Judge - Students take on the role of a Spartan spy and gather information to answer the question, "To what extent was the form of democracy practiced in ancient Athens fair and equitable?" File
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  Technology Infusion

  • 4.1 Alberta: A Sense of the Land

  • Alberta's Natural Resources File
  • 4.1.2,3,4 Alberta's Geography - The students will create digital scrapbook displaying the major geographic, vegetative regions, bodies of water and landforms of Alberta. File
  • 4.1.3,4 Discovering an Alberta Treasure - Students create an explorer's notebook depicting the central role of paleontology in Alberta's natural landscape. File
  • Tyrrell Web Quest - In this Web Quest students research the Royal Tyrrell Museum to convince a member of the community to sponsor the museum. File
  • 4.2 The Stories, Histories and Peoples of Alberta

  • Treaty Seven: The Promise of the Future - Digital Historical Narrative URL
  • Your Story, My Story, Their Story - Personal and collective histories/"her-stories" are explored and uncovered in this cross-curricular project in which migrations are highlighted over time. File
  • Stories From Alberta's Past - Students create and share a multimedia presentation on a moment or person in Alberta's History. File
  • How the West Was Settled - Through an investigation of the daily lives of settlers in Alberta, students examine the challenges and contributions different cultural groups made to Alberta File
  • How the West Was Settled Webquest File
  • Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump - Digital Historical Narrative URL
  • 4.3 Alberta: Celebrations and Challenges

  • The Times They Are A-Changin! - Learners engage in research using guiding questions that lead to the creation of a Persuasion Map, "hotlist" of reputable websites, a wiki and more. File
  • 5.2 Histories and Stories of Ways of Life in Canada

  • 5.2 Stories of Early Canada through PowerPoint - Students explore various peoples who settled, developed and helped to create Canada's identity. File
  • Geography and First Nations’ Ways of Life - In this WebQuest students work in groups to discover different aspects of the First Nations cultural groups to determine the effect of geography on their ways of life File
  • 5.3 Canada: Shaping an Identity

  • A Timeline of Canadian History URL
  • The Great Depression - Digital Historical Narrative URL
  • 5.3.4 It Happened on a Cool October Day - Students focus on collectively finding and using pictures to make a audio and picture photo album to relate a message. File
  • 6.1 Citizens Participating in Decision Making

  • Perspectives on an Issue URL
  • Rights and Freedoms: The Breadwinner URL
  • Member of the Legislative Assembly URL
  • Canada - Digital Historical Narrative URL
  • 6.2 Historical Models of Democracy: Ancient Athens and the Iroquois Confederacy

  • The Structure of the Iroquois Confederacy URL
  • First Nations - Digital Historical Narrative URL