Social Studies Unit Plan: First Nations People and Early European Explorers
Camille Rutherford
Karen Baulke 3145794
Meghan Brien 3729134
Lisa Crewe 2205557
Tammy Guiler 3744158
Carli Rota 3732757
Due Date: Thursday, February, 22, 2007
Table of Contents
Unit Plan Overview 3
Lesson Summaries 4
Lesson # 2 – Introductory/Pre Contact (3 periods) 6
Lesson # 3 – European Explorers - Vikings (1 period) 24
Lesson # 4 – European Explorers – 16th and 17th Century (3 periods 32
Lesson # 5 – European Explorers Review and Quiz (1 period) 50
Lesson # 6 – Post Settlement Conflict (1 period) 55
Lesson # 7 – Building a Trading Post (2 periods) 61
Lesson # 8 – Building a Trading Post (2 periods) 66
Lesson # 9 – Modern Day Issues (3 periods) 70
Physical Education Connections
Lesson # 1 – Aboriginal Games (1 period) 78
Lesson # 2 – Aboriginal Athletes/Lacrosse (1 period) 81
Lesson # 3 – Lacrosse/Quiz (2 periods) 87
Unit Plan Resources 90
OVERVIEW
Students will learn about the main characteristics of North American First Nation culture, including the close relationship of the First Nations peoples with the natural environment. They will investigate the motivating factors for early European exploration and the prevailing attitudes of the explorers. They will also examine the positive and negative effects of interactions between the Europeans and First Nation peoples, from first Viking contact to the time of permanent European settlement in the early seventeenth century.
-Ministry of Education
The purpose of this Heritage and Citizenship unit for grade six students is for them to become knowledgeable about the North American First Nation People as well as the European settlers that inhabited Canada in the early seventeen hundreds.
This unit is a continuation of previous learning from the Ontario
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