General Outcome 1.1

Then and Now: a Community ABC

Overview: The students demonstrate an understanding of their community in the past and present by creating a portion of an ABC movie using the vocabulary and key concepts from the unit.

General Outcome 1.1

Where in the World Are We?

Overview: Using technology, students will manipulate maps to gain a greater geographic understanding of their town and school community.

Support Materials: Mapping Our School

General Outcome 1.1

To What Groups do You Belong?

Overview: Students will create a section of a photostory that effectively shows the groups to which they belong.  When finished, the photostory will show the groups to which the entire class belongs.

General Outcome 1.1

What Makes Our Community Great?

Overview: Can be used as an opening research activity.  Students will create a simple PowerPoint slide to illustrate an aspect of their thriving community.

General Outcome 2.1

Oral Traditions

Overview:  Students will investigate daily life in an Inuit community

General Outcome 2.1

Traditions and Celebrations

Overview:  Through creation of a slideshow, students will examine stories of the past and their contribution to present communities.

General Outcome 2.2

Characteristics of a Community

Overview:  Students will research their own community to create a brochure (using Web 2.0 tools) to advertise its attributes and the contribution of the past to the present.

General

If I Had Only Known

"If I had known about these resources when I started to teach the new S.S. curriculum, my life would have been so much easier!"

~ Linda Coutts, Grade 3 teacher 

General Outcome 3.1

Four Faces of Quality of Life

Overview: In this inquiry project students will apply their background knowledge of quality of life to investigate India, Tunisia, Ukraine or Peru and create a poster using that data.

General Outcome 3.1

India: Thinking about Quality of Life

Overview: Through this five activity inquiry project, students will explore the factors that affect quality of life in India.

General Outcome 3.1

Please, Please, Let’s Move To . . .

Overview:  This Web Quest takes students through gathering information about each of the four countries in this outcome: India, Tunisia, Ukraine and Peru.  Students must ultimately decide on the country in which they would prefer to live.

General Outcome 3.1

So What is Quality of Life?

Overview: During this introductory lesson, students will review what basic needs are, reflect on how they meet those needs, and understand that how they meet their basic needs reflects their quality of life.  Students will also understand and appreciate that others will have similar and different points of view about quality of life in their community.

General Outcome 4.1

Tyrrell Web Quest

Overview: In this Web Quest students must research the Royal Tyrrell Museum to convince a member of the community to sponsor the museum. 

Multimedia Example

General Outcome 4.2

How the West Was Settled
by Karen Laszuk

Overview: Through an investigation of the daily lives of settlers in Alberta, students will gain a better understanding of the challenges and contributions different cultural groups made to Alberta.

WebQuest

General Outcome: 5.2

Geography and First Nations’ Ways of Life

Overview: In this WebQuest students will work in groups to discover different aspects of the First Nations cultural groups to determine the effect of geography on their ways of life.

General Outcome 7.2

What Makes a Legend?

Overview:  Through this Web Quest, students will investigate the actions of one of five significant women in Canadian History to determine the extent to which she is a legend.

Introduction to Worldview

The World View Project
by Tara Billingsley and Harriet Liddle

Overview: Through these activities, students will explore elements of worldview and how they are expressed by people living in different places.

Support Material - Canadian Worldview

Support Material - Darfur Worldview

General Outcome 8.2

Renaissance Art and Literature Internet Sampler
by Jeff Lee

Overview: In this Web Quest, students examine Renaissance art and literature to gain a better understanding of how the arts influence worldview and reflect the change in values from the Middle Ages to Renaissance times.  Students also consider how these ideals and values have changed since the Renaissance in the western world.

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General Outcome 8.2

Renaissance Jeopardy: a Unit Review Project
by Rachelle Haggerty and Margaret Lopetinsky

Overview:  Using Bloom’s Taxonomy, students develop a review game based on the television show “Jeopardy”.

Renaissance Jeopardy Student Page

Renaissance Jeopardy Game Template

General Outcome 8.3

A Day in the Life of...(An Aztec Young Adult)
by Edith Dening

Overview:  Students create a digital story illustrating the daily life of the Aztecs prior to the arrival of the Spaniards.

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