O Canada! ~ Lesson Plans and Resources
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
Click on thumbnail to download pdf file
Wednesday
- Review geography song
- Took a virtual tour through Canada
- Talked about three different explorers: Leif Erickson, Jacques Cartier, and John Cabot
- Independent reading
- Review geography song
- Canadian National Anthem {English}
- Canadian National Anthem {French}
- Children Just Like Me book and notebooking page
- Reading Kid’s Book of Canada
Week 2 Layout
Monday
- Review geography song
- Major milestones in Canada’s history
- Learned about the flag of Canada
Click on thumbnail to download pdf file
Tuesday
- Review geography song
- Read book Meet Our New Student from Quebec
- Read together one of books from bookshelf
- Review geography song
- Story from Around the World in 80 Tales ~ The White Bear
- Read together That’s Very Canadian
- 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
- National Geographic for Kids ~ Canada
- Time for Kids ~ Canada
- Travel for Kids ~ books and recommendations for Canada
- Canadian Government website
- Canada for Kids
- K-12 Study Canada plans and links
- Canadian Rainforest video
- Teachnology ~ lesson plans about Canada
- National Geographic ~ photos of Nunavik territory
- Expedition Canada {coming soon} ~ unit from Amanda Bennett
Labels: Canada, Geography, Geography Printables, North America
posted by Jolanthe at
5:30 AM
9 Comments:
I can sing the geography song right along with you. We used this when our 26 year old, ahem, was in second grade. We can still sing it today. Songs really do cement information the old long term memory bank! :)
By
Money Saving Maine-iac, At
October 26, 2010 at 6:52 AM
hello, Canada is cold. That's my theory on why there's not many people.
And for some reason I always in my mind sing "O Canada" to the same tune as "O Tannenbaum," I have no clue if it's the correct tune, but that's what it is in my mind.
By
Ticia, At
October 26, 2010 at 8:34 AM
Hey Jolanthe.
Just wondering if you'd like something special for the kiddos from the frozen north?
You may or may not know that, I am an Inuit (kidding) I'm not. But I am Canadian.
Let me know by email quickly, {as it does take (I think) 8-10 business days} before your done your unit.
M
from liveswearegiven
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MO, At
October 26, 2010 at 6:07 PM
One more thing.
Tell your kids it's not cold here like most Americans think. Check out on the web, British Columbia's Rain Forest. It doesn't snow there, well it rarely does. Our country is very diverse in it's people and places. My Canada is beautiful!
By
MO, At
October 26, 2010 at 6:18 PM
Just wanted to make sure you knew that on your PDF sheet where you label a map of Canada, Ottawa was spelled incorrectly.
By
Alia, At
October 26, 2010 at 9:05 PM
To the lady who wanted to know the tune to O Canada: you can find many versions of it on You-tube. It does not sound like O Tannenbaum.
We've used Geography Songs for years, but that Canada song drives me crazy, because it doesn't make any geographical sense for Canadian kids. We need another song that goes west to east, like the U.S. songs.
Jolanthe, your kids might enjoy the You-tube song Canada in My Pocket--it teaches the meaning of Canadian coins. Sort of. Misrepresents the Bluenose on the dime (it wasn't a trading ship), but it's fun anyway. Also look up the website tvokids.org if you want to know what Ontario kids are into watching after school. (Warning: this is not a Christian station, it's more like PBS, so right now it's all Halloween.)
And right now in Ontario we're still having pretty nice fall weather--bit windy though.
By
Mama Squirrel, At
October 29, 2010 at 7:41 AM
Wow! Between your post and the comments, I don't need anything else to teach about Canada. Thanks so much!
Godspeed,
Nancy
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Nancy Kelly, At
November 1, 2010 at 6:22 PM
Wow! Between your post and the comments, I don't need anything else to teach about Canada. Thanks so much!
Godspeed,
Nancy
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Nancy, At
December 15, 2010 at 12:54 PM
Hey Jolanthe.
Just wondering if you'd like something special for the kiddos from the frozen north?
You may or may not know that, I am an Inuit (kidding) I'm not. But I am Canadian.
Let me know by email quickly, {as it does take (I think) 8-10 business days} before your done your unit.
M
from liveswearegiven
By
MON, At
December 15, 2010 at 12:54 PM
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