We are hard at work this week preparing a Glog, which is like an online bristol board project, about one of the early European explorers that came to North America (see the background of the explorers on Google docs or here). We will be examining a brief history of their lives, a look at the country they were representing, where they went and what we feel was their most important achievement. We put together a checklist outlining what we felt was the most effective way to communicate this information on a Glog. The checklist can be found here.
We will be working on the following learning goals:
- explain why Europeans came to North America and New France to establish colonies
- clearly communicate information using a presentation tool (Glog)
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Wednesday, 24 November 2010
Tuesday, 16 November 2010
New France History unit
We are getting ready for a brand new Social Studies unit, where we will be studying the arrival of the French at Quebec and the establishment of the colony of New France, from 1600 until the Battle of the Plains of Abraham and the fall of Quebec in 1759. We will be exploring the people involved in this story, and some of the issues raised by the interactions between the First Nations and the Europeans. One of the skills we will work on is the ability to look at the same issue from different points of view, and contrast the views to try to find the middle ground. Another difference with this unit is the attempt to make this more of an on-line and paperless experience. Much of the information will be passed on through Google docs and via internet sources and web 2.0 tools like online timelines, presentation tools and surveys. This should be an exciting!
Posted here are our Learning Goals for the unit (what we will have achieved by the end of the unit):
Posted here are our Learning Goals for the unit (what we will have achieved by the end of the unit):
Learning Goals
- to identify the main events that happened in the colony of New France
- to identify the important places in New France
- to identify the important groups and individuals, and what made them important
- to examine the interactions between groups of people like the First Nations allies and enemies, the French and the English by looking at issues from both sides
- to communicate my findings clearly using the appropriate tool
Learning Goals
- to identify the main events that happened in the colony of New France- to identify the important places in New France
- to identify the important groups and individuals, and what made them important
- to examine the interactions between groups of people like the First Nations allies and enemies, the French and the English by looking at issues from both sides
- to communicate my findings clearly using the appropriate tool
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