Canada

Task

Students will be exploring the website: Canada's First People. Students will be exploring 6 different people groups. They will be exploring their environment/housing, food/hunting/tools, religion/ceremonies/art/clothing, and family/social structure/leadership.

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For each people group, students only need to focus on 2 out of the 4 categories (religion, hunting, ect) They may look at all the categories but just need to have a good understanding of at least two of the categories. Their understanding of each group will be written on a graphic organizer.

Process

You will have ten minutes to research each group. After ten minutes, we will switch to the next group and you will research that group. We will research 3 of them on the first day and we will complete the last three on the second day.

Group 1: Subarctic People

http://firstpeoplesofcanada.com/fp_groups/fp_subarctic1.html

Group 2: The Inuit

http://firstpeoplesofcanada.com/fp_groups/fp_inuit1.html

Group 3: Plains People

http://firstpeoplesofcanada.com/fp_groups/fp_plains1.html

group 4: Eastern Woodland Hunters

http://firstpeoplesofcanada.com/fp_groups/fp_wh1.html

group 5: Plateau People

http://firstpeoplesofcanada.com/fp_groups/fp_plateau1.html

group 6: Northwest Coastal People

http://firstpeoplesofcanada.com/fp_groups/fp_nwc1.html