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O Canada! ~ Lesson Plans and Resources

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Canada spans more than half of the Northern Hemisphere and is the second largest country in the world. It also has the world’s longest coastline ~ there are oceans on three sides. Canada’s lakes and rivers make up about 20% of the world’s fresh water.

The population of Canada is less than half a percent of the world’s population. The majority of Canada’s people live in the southern part of Canada and the largest cities are Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver. Canada’s two official languages are French and English.

You can view the other countries that we’ve studied from North America on my North America geography page.

Week 1 Layout

Monday

  • Introduce new song about Canada from Geography Songs
  • Use atlas and globe to locate Canada
  • Read one of our books from our bookshelf about Canada

Tuesday

  • Review geography song
  • Learn {and review} some terms: province, hemisphere, territory, bay {Hudson bay}
  • Independent reading from bookshelf
  • Filled out the map of Canada using our notebooking page

 Mapping Canada

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Wednesday

  • Review geography song
  • Took a virtual tour through Canada
  • Talked about three different explorers: Leif Erickson, Jacques Cartier, and John Cabot
  • Independent reading 

Thursday

Week 2 Layout

Monday

 Flag of Canada

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Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

  • Review geography song
  • Summarized one of our reading books and copy summary/dication
  • Added our notebooking pages to our binder and stamped our passports!

Books to Use

Resources and Websites

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  1. As National Flag of Canada Day approaches on February 15th, it takes me back to the excitement when the new flag was first announced in 1965.

    Freddy Grant’s “Flag of Canada” (1965) Song was taught to the Grade 3 class by Loretta Holdridge at Cedar Hill School in Victoria BC to celebrate the event.
    Here’s one of those students singing the song, 45 years later. Flag of Canada (sung by Wendy Station) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IkqmkTK46E

    Wouldn’t it be wonderful for Flag of Canada to be taught in the schools again, so that all of the children could sing the song by the time the flag celebrates its 50th Birthday!

    wendystation@shaw.ca

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