Text Features
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Part 1: Alberta: A Sense of the Land
Map on My Lap!- Dr. Seuss
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Legends
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To ensure that a person can correctly read a map, a Map Legend is a key to all the symbols used on a map.
"The legend should be on your map for easy reference, and it should include all of the symbols that you have used for your map. It is important to consider if your map is going to be in color or in black and white, because that will affect the types of symbols that you choose." |
Neighbourhood Map |
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Project 1- Draw a map of your neighbourhood with compass rose and legends.
Rubric for the map
Samples
Samples of ""Excellent" grade works.
Regions of Alberta
Interactive map- Click Here
Land form of a region: Use shade and line to draw a land form of a region.
Boreal Forest :_
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Parkland Region: _
The Parkland region of Alberta is located in central eastern Alberta. The region has many interesting landforms. Some landforms are: woodlands, grasslands, shrublands, wetlands, badlands and hoodoos. Large bodies of water are Sullivan Lake, Battle Lake and Red Deer Lake. Click here for more: |
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Grassland Region:_
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Foothills Region:_
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Rocky Mountain Region:_
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Project: Magazine
Create a magazine on a region with
a cover page,
a page on land form,
a page on climate,
a page on plants and animals,
a page on attractions
and finally a page with sources.
Each page must have information in one paragraph and pictures.
a cover page,
a page on land form,
a page on climate,
a page on plants and animals,
a page on attractions
and finally a page with sources.
Each page must have information in one paragraph and pictures.
Samples
Biome Project ideas
Chapter 2: Alberta's Fossil Heritage
Alberta's Fossil Heritage- Study Guide
How fossils are formed-
Paleontologist
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Badlands
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Dinosaur Provincial Park
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Fossil Fuels
Fossil Fuels
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How fossil fuels are extracted
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Chapter 3: Natural Resources
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OIl sands
How does the mining affect environment?
Vocabulary
Oil sands
Kilometers
Non-renewable
Environment
Technology
Energy
Fossil
Heritage
Palentologist
Kilometers
Non-renewable
Environment
Technology
Energy
Fossil
Heritage
Palentologist
Part 2: The Stories, Histories and Peoples of Alberta
Alberta's First People
Who are the First Nations people in Alberta?
Study Guide-
Head-Smashed - In Buffalo Jump ( Read page 116)
Teepees
Travois
Cree nation culture
Totem pole
A totem is a symbol of a tribe, clan, family or individual.
Each one of the animal totems had a special meaning, characteristics and significance. |
Artifacts
An artifact is a man-made object that has some kind of cultural significance.
An artifact is a simple object (such as a tool or weapon) that was made by people in the past.
If you find a 12th century vase, it's an artifact of that time.
Artifact is a combination of two Latin words, arte, meaning "by skill" and factum which means "to make."
An artifact is a simple object (such as a tool or weapon) that was made by people in the past.
If you find a 12th century vase, it's an artifact of that time.
Artifact is a combination of two Latin words, arte, meaning "by skill" and factum which means "to make."
Project: Research about one First nations artifact ( Pg. 106,108, 109). Create an artifact and prepare a two minutes presentation.
My life with First Nation People
New Roots for Alberta
Fur Trade
Women In The Fur trade
The success of the Fur trade depended of the involvement of native women to a large degree. They prepared the skins, influenced trade and made pemmican.
Marriage between European fur traders and native women were common. Aboriginal and mixed blood women had occupied an important position in the fur trade as wives of the traders. Marriage with an Aboriginal woman created an important economic link with her tribe and she possessed labor skills that were essential to the survival of the traders in the Canadian wilderness.
The success of the Fur trade depended of the involvement of native women to a large degree. They prepared the skins, influenced trade and made pemmican.
Marriage between European fur traders and native women were common. Aboriginal and mixed blood women had occupied an important position in the fur trade as wives of the traders. Marriage with an Aboriginal woman created an important economic link with her tribe and she possessed labor skills that were essential to the survival of the traders in the Canadian wilderness.
Metis
Read P 135- 140
Terms
French Canadians (also referred to as Franco-Canadians or Canadiens.
Descendant: a person who is related to you and who lives after you, such as your child or grandchild.
someone who is related to a person or group of people who lived in the past.
French Canadians (also referred to as Franco-Canadians or Canadiens.
Descendant: a person who is related to you and who lives after you, such as your child or grandchild.
someone who is related to a person or group of people who lived in the past.
Francophone
Read Page 141, 142
Early History
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Missionaries
Read 143- 147
Arrival of the MissionariesRobert Rundle and wife. Rundle was one the first missionaries to come to Western Canada and preform marriages at Fort Edmonton and Rocky Mountain House.
Preparing for New Settlers
They built many of the first schools in Western Canada on their mission sites. Both Aboriginal and mixed blood children were encouraged to attend schools, where they would learn Christian thought, either French or English and all the other subjects that were necessary for the "civilization" of their minds.
British Settlers
Read Page 180 - 187
Role play project.....
Write a 5 minutes role play with following characters-
- Metis
- Francophone
- Missionries
- British settlers
Early life in Canada
Pioneer's life
Project: My Family Mat
Produce a Family Mat and explore the history of your family- Why and how your family came to Canada? Why they chose Alberta to live in?
Vocabulary
Archeologist
Immigrant
Metis
First Nations
Cree
Treaties
British
Homestead
Francophone
Missionaries
Immigrant
Metis
First Nations
Cree
Treaties
British
Homestead
Francophone
Missionaries
Chapter 8: How Did Alberta Become a Province?
Alberta's Political Beginning
Calgary now and then
Project : My own province
Build your very own province!
You are going to be building your own province. Your province is completely how you choose it to be. It can be big or small, fanciful or practical.
This exercise has a number of parts, and I encourage you to set 3 to 4 hours aside to work on it.
Materials: pencil, notebook, collage stuff.
Final product choices:
Booklet or poster
Part 1:
Write down whatever leaps into your head from each of these questions. You’ll have a chance to edit and adapt them later.
Answer one question at a time. Don’t read the next question until you’ve finished responding to the previous.
(Make sure your answers are consistent and make sense; for example, if you chose desert landscape for you province you must chose desert climate, plants and animals.)
Part 2:
Design your province’s first postage stamp.
Part 3:
Do research (Text book, internet and others)
Part4:
Work on your booklet/ poster
Part 4:
Presentation
Part 5:
Write a short article about your province’s history.
You are going to be building your own province. Your province is completely how you choose it to be. It can be big or small, fanciful or practical.
This exercise has a number of parts, and I encourage you to set 3 to 4 hours aside to work on it.
Materials: pencil, notebook, collage stuff.
Final product choices:
Booklet or poster
Part 1:
Write down whatever leaps into your head from each of these questions. You’ll have a chance to edit and adapt them later.
Answer one question at a time. Don’t read the next question until you’ve finished responding to the previous.
- What is the name of your province?
- How big or small is your province?
- How big a population inhabits your province, and what’s the makeup?
- How does your province look like? (Map)
- How does your flag look like?
- Do you have any symbol for your province? Why have you chosen that symbol? (P. 310)
- What is the capital of your province?
- How many cities do you have in your province? Where do they locate in the map?
- What’s your province’s landscape?
- What kind of climate does it have? Does it vary?
- What kind of plants and animals do you have in your province?
- What natural resources do you have in your province?
- How many national park/ tourist attraction do you have in your province? (p. 246- 251, p. 306)
(Make sure your answers are consistent and make sense; for example, if you chose desert landscape for you province you must chose desert climate, plants and animals.)
Part 2:
Design your province’s first postage stamp.
Part 3:
Do research (Text book, internet and others)
Part4:
Work on your booklet/ poster
Part 4:
Presentation
Part 5:
Write a short article about your province’s history.