K-12 STUDY CANADA Resource Valise

K-12 STUDY CANADA Resource Valise

Related Forms

• Interest Form / Request• Loan Form• Evaluation Form

9 Units of Study

• Artifacts• Teacher Resources• Internet Lists• Multimedia Resources

• Videos• CD-ROMS• Music CDs

Unit 1: O Canada!

• Artifacts– Set of Provincial Flags &

Canadian Flag– Deck of “Cards Eh!” – Fold-Out Map of Canada &

Laminated 3-D Map– 9 Laminated Placemats

• Teaching Resources – Canada Northern Neighbor– The Spirit of Canada – Canada’s Maple Leaf: The Story

of Our Flag – The Kids Book of Canada

• Internet List (22 Websites)

Unit 2: BC - Totems & E. Carr .

Artifacts– Totem Pole

Teaching Resources– Emily Carr: An Introduction to

her Life and Art – Looking at Totem Poles (H.

Stewart)– Cedar Plank Mask; Bentwood

Box; Button Blanket; Spindle Whorl

– British Columbia: Land and People (B. MacDonald)

Internet List (12 Websites)

Unit 3: Images of Ontario: From City to Shield

Artifacts– Model of the CN Tower and

Brochure– Art Pin (A.J. Casson’s White

Pine)

Teaching Resources– Looking at Landscape

Resource Package– Images of Nature: Canadian

Poets and the Group of Seven

– Meet the Group of Seven


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Artifacts– Montreal Canadians “Away”

Hockey Jersey

Teaching Resources– Québec Land and People

(B. MacDonald)– The Sweater (R. Carriere)


Unit 4: Quebec: les Habitants and “the Habs!”

Unit 5: The Maritimes & the Land of Anne.

Artifacts– P.E.I. License Plate w/ Anne

Teaching Resources – Lucy Maud Montgomery: A

Writer’s Life (E. McLeod)– Duncan’s Way (I. Wallace)


Unit 6: Canada’s North & the Inuit

Artifacts– Inuksuk

Teaching Resources – Artists in the Arctic Resource

Package – The Kids Book of the Far North

(A. Love and J. Drake)– The Inuksuk Book (M. Wallace)– Arctic Stories (M. Kusugak)


Unit 7: Canadian Dreams: The Railroad, RCMP & Yukon Gold

Artifacts– CN and CP Model RR Cars; RCMP

Poster Postcards

Teaching Resources – The Cremation of Sam McGee (R.

Service)– The Kids Book of Canada’s Railway

(D. Hodge)– Boldly Cdn: RCMP – The Mounties For Kids Activity Book– Life in the Old West Series: The

Railroad; The Gold Rush; Boomtowns

Student Novel: – Cariboo Runaway (S.F. Duncan) and

Teacher’s Guide

• Internet List (12 Websites)

Artifacts– Canoe

Teaching Resources– Contemporary Art By First Nations

Artists Resource Package– Indian Legends of Canada (E.E.

Clark)– Canada History: Prehistoric

Canada (Ancient Canada–Aboriginal People)

– Paddle to the Sea (H.C. Holling)– Maple Moon (Crook & Cameron)


Unit 8: Canada’s First Nations

Unit 9: Black Canadians & the Underground Railroad

Artifacts– Newspaper Copies & Photos – “Equality” Pin and Poster

Teaching Resources – The Freedom Seekers: Blacks In

Early Canada– African Canadians Achievement:

In Our Time (R. Ffrench)– An Enduring Heritage: Black

Contributions to Early Ontario– The Story of Mary Ann Shadd (R.

Breon & V. Cudjoe)


Multimedia Resources

The Group of Seven

Paddle to the Sea The Sweater

CBC: Life & Times of Lucy Maud Montgomery

CBC: Life & Times of Emily Carr

9 Videotapes


Breaking the Ice: Story of Mary Anne Shadd

Destination: Quebec

Destination: Toronto (& Niagara Falls)

Postcards from Canada

9 Videotapes


– Canadian Geographic Explorer

– Canada: Confederation to Present

– Cross Country Canada**

– Totems**

– Adventure Canada**

10 CD-ROMS


– Land of the Inuit

– Nunavut Territory

– Klondike Gold

– Northwest Passage

– Canadian Treasures

10 CD-ROMS

Multimedia Resources 9 Music CDs

Souvenirs (Stompin’ Tom Connors) Stompin’ Tom Sings Canadian History

Gord’s Gold (Gordon Lightfoot)

For the Times (Schooner Fare)

Kashtin (Kashtin)

Un Pays Qui Se Chante (Various Quebec Artists)

Multimedia Resources 9 Music CDs

Canada is for Kids – Vol. 1 & 2 (Michael Mitchell)

This Child (Susan Aglukark)

Documents

K-12 STUDY CANADA Resource Valise