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Free canadian history activities
Orange Shirt Day Activity
As part of our commitment to Truth and Reconciliation, we feel it is important to teach our students about the history of Residential Schools in Canada. This activity is a place to start and doesn't require lots of prep. The National Day of Truth and Reconciliation is September 30.This remembrance resource includes:an instruction page for teachers with suggestions on where to find resources online for your classroom.a pledge sheet to remember the impact of Residential Schools in Canada.a pledge
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3rd - 6th
Also included in: Alberta Social Studies Bundle Grade 4
Canada Quick Research Project
Give your students a chance to search the internet by searching for Canada facts in this quick research project disguised as a challenge. It's perfect for those days when you need something quick and don't have time to plan.This product includes:instructions on how to do the taskstudent pagesanswer keys This activity was designed for our students to gain confidence using search terms when doing research on the internet. It could be done with books instead, though it was designed to have students
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Alberta Social Studies Bundle Grade 5
Indigenous Artist Painting Project | Elementary Art Lesson
This simple painting lesson uses Leah Dorian's book The Giving Tree: A Retelling of a Métis Traditional Story and can easily connect to your Social Studies teachings about the Métis people of Canada. Students create a painting based on the style and theme of the book. This inspiring product includes:a complete lesson plan with step-by-step instructions with modifications to differentiate for your students (or your available supplies).photographs of student examples.instructions to minimize prep
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3rd - 6th
Orange Shirt Day
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September 30th is Orange Shirt Day in Canada. This important day helps teach students across the country about residential schools and the impact these schools had on the students who were forced to attend them.
I created this FREE resource to help educators who want an easy, efficient and engaging way to make Orange Shirt Day an important day for students. Included in this resource:
- orange shirt cut out templates (p
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3rd - 6th
Levels of Government - Canadian Worksheets - FREEBIE
This Freebie contains 5 worksheets ready for your students to learn about the 3 levels of government in Canada. They will demonstrate their learning on which level of government to call based on the situations. Students will learn about each of the levels of government and their responsibilities. Canadian Government - Full Unit BundleBritish Columbia - Government Unit Bundle - Grade 5Follow Super Simple Sheets for more resources like this one!
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4th - 8th
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French Black History Month Activities - Celebrating Black Francophone Excellence
C'est le mois de février et donc c'est aussi le Mois de l'histoire des Noirs! Let's celebrate Black excellence, joy and success this month by learning about notable Black Canadians and Black Francophones. This French Black History Month freebie includes French reading comprehension activities, a research assignment, and more. Before we begin - a quick disclaimerI am a non-Black educator sharing French Black History Month ideas, activities and resources for the classroom. Please note that I am no
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9th - 11th
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Also included in: French Cultural Bundle - Les cultures francophones et non-francophones
ORANGE SHIRT DAY | Collaborative Art Project | Truth & Reconciliation Week
Engage learners in the Orange Shirt Day message with this collaborative Every Child Matters poster. Be part of a cross-Canada collaborative art project by submitting pictures of your completed poster here. We can’t wait to see all the unique designs proclaiming the message that Every Child Matters! HOW IT WORKS 1. Print:This package includes pages with cut lines to ensure your printer doesn't cut off the edges and to help you line up the poster when you put it together. Includes 16 sections. I
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Not Grade Specific
Also included in: ORANGE SHIRT DAY BUNDLE | Every Child Matters Lessons & Activities
Canada Map with Quiz | FREE
This simple, no-prep map of Canada can be used as an introduction to Canada, or as part of a mapping unit. It is perfect for Canadian students, but also works well with international classrooms who want to learn a little about our country!This resource includes:a map of CanadaA quiz with 9 "fill-in-the-blank" questions and 3 multiple choice questions.An answer key for the quiz.I hope you can take a moment to leave feedback on this free resource after using it!Follow Me:Be the first to learn abo
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4th - 6th
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Orange Shirt Day │ FNMI
Orange Shirt Day is an annual event held on September 30th to give First Nations, Metis, Inuit, governments, schools and communities the opportunity for healing, reconciliation and hope. It allows us to come together to remember the cruelty of the long-running Residential School System in Canada as well as to honour the survivors and their families. We hope that these posters and writing activity sheets will help you introduce your elementary class to Orange Shirt Day and to recognize its import
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PreK - 8th
Orange Shirt Day - Reconciliation First Nations Canada - Residential Schools
Indigenous National Truth and Reconciliation Day FREE: (FNMI) First Nations, Metis, Inuit Studies - Orange Shirt Day is a great way to teach the significance of reconciliations between the Canadian Government and Residential school survivors to your students.It is a time to acknowledge the abuse and cultural genocide suffered by the First Nations' children in residential schools.This package includes a craftivity, a poster, and two orange shirt day activity shirt worksheets.Ontario Educators rec
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Superheroes vs. Heroes - Community Helpers and Terry Fox Resource
Try out this free Terry Fox and community helpers activity in your classroom!
Start by examining the qualities and characteristics of someone who is considered a hero. Then compare real life heroes and fictional superheroes found in books, cartoons and movies. Finally, discuss how Terry Fox is a true Canadian hero based on what he did during his Marathon of Hope. Follow up with this individual sorting activity, available in both French and English. When your school plans their Terry Fox run, us
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PreK - 1st
Orange Shirt Day Activities Writing
Orange Shirt Day ActivitiesYou have been asked to design a special t-shirt for Orange ShirtDay. Orange Shirt Day is observed each September 30 to honor residential school survivors, those who did not survive, and their descendants.It was 1973 and Phyllis Webstad had just turned 6 years old. She lived with her grandmother on the Dog Creek reserve. Phyllis and her grandmother did not havevery much money but her grandmother saved enough to take Phyllis to the store to buy a new shirt for school. Ph
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K - 3rd
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REMEMBRANCE DAY Canada November 11th Text, Activities FREE RESOURCE Print, Easel
This Free resource includes a short reading passage, “November 11th”, that relates to Remembrance Day and it includes a page and a half of student activities that focus on vocabulary. It is a basic explanation of the origin of Remembrance Day and how it is celebrated in Canada. The resource includes a complete answer key.The featured vocabulary words are: tradition, commemorate, regardless, solemn, conflicts, participate.Please have a look at other Remembrance Day resources available in my sto
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4th - 6th
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Sometimes I Feel Like A Fox: Writing FREEBIES
My second grade students were so mesmerized by 2017's Blue Spruce nominee Danielle Daniel's book, Sometimes I Feel Like A Fox, that I was inspired to create a multimedia art project as well as some accompanying writing pages to go along with it. You'll find acrostic writing pages for animals from 3 to 9 letters long as well as lined paper for descriptive paragraphs and pages for lower levels too.
To read more about how my class created their amazing Animal Multimedia Art, read my blog post her
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K - 5th
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Canada Day Coloring Pages - Free Maple Leaf Art
FREE, 'print and go' fun, imaginative Canada Day maple leaf themed art activity packet to encourage learning through creativity
The full 43 page Canada Day resource can be viewed here:
Canada Day Bumper art and decoration resource pack
In this free packet you'll find the following:
1. Art project - 'hidden maple leaf' abstract art activity
Photographs of partially finished and completed artworks are included to suggest color palettes and art materials that work well in the classroom.
2. H
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3rd - 6th
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Terry Fox Colouring Page
Educate your students about the courageous journey of Terry Fox, in a fun and creative way.
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PreK - 12th
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TiPi Directed Drawing | Indigenous Peoples | Native American | First Nations
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------This product is a 1 image excerpt from the full product that can be found at:Check out Vol. 1 at:Directed Drawing | Indigenous Peoples | Native American | First Nations | Vol. 1Check out Vol. 2 at:Directed Drawing | Indigenous Peoples | Native American | First Nations | Vol. 2Also available as part of a bundle at:Directed Drawing | Indigenous Peoples | Native American | Fir
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1st - 6th
Iqaluit, Nunavut Arctic Animal Yoga Poses (and Alberta Social Studies)
Hey Everyone I'm so glad to give you this awesome product absolutely FREE!I use this one in my classroom, page for page so I'm putting it up to share with you! You're going to love it and your kids are too.They love using their bodies to do these yoga poses - each card is created to resemble an arctic animal. They read the fact about the animal, see the picture of the animal and then pose like the animal. But seriously the best part - taking pictures of each other posing!I ask them, "What are yo
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2nd - 3rd
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Also included in: Alberta Grade 2 Social Studies {Communities in Canada: VALUE BUNDLE}
Indigenous Education Lesson Kamloops Residential School | Reconciliation
This teaches students about the remains of 215 Indigenous children discovered at Kamloops residential school in British Columbia. All children matter and what happened is unacceptable. We must teach our students how to support the Indigenous population and how this is not an issue of the past. The effects are still felt and the last school was closed in 1996 when I was 3 years old. It is not history. We must teach about this important topic by honouring Indigenous voices and supporting the Truth
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5th - 12th
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Canada Day Foldable for Interactive Notebooks FREE
Celebrate Canada Day with this fun foldable. Paste it in your interactive notebook. Use it for taking notes, reviewing Canadian facts and quizzing your students.Free for Canada Day 2021!Learning about our country is part of the curriculum at all ages so this fun foldable has differentiated pages. This download includes:7 PagesColour and Blackline versionsFacts ready to printBlank version (to draw pictures or word poems)Lines to write information*Use the facts included and have students take note
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1st - 5th
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Canada Word Search - O Canada!
Perfect for Canada Day, end of the school year, when your studying Canada, use as a time filler or social studies classes. Students read the lyrics to O Canada and find the highlighted words in the puzzle above.
More puzzles like this are available in my store. Click my yellow logo on the right side of the page to see other resources in my store.
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Canada Day and Canadian Celebrations Resource BUNDLE
Free Alberta Quick Research Project
Give your students a chance to search the internet by searching for Alberta facts in this quick research project disguised as a challenge. It's perfect for those days when you need something quick and don't have time to plan.This product includes:instructions on how to do the taskstudent pagesanswer keysThis activity was designed for our students to gain confidence using search terms when doing research on the internet. It could be done with books instead, though it was designed to have students
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Alberta Social Studies Bundle Grade 4
Northwest Coast Art FREEBIE
Teach about the art of Native American and Canadian First Nations groups in the Pacific Northwest of the US and British Columbia, Canada. This resource helps introduce primary students to the traditional art and culture of the Northwest Coast, and is a great addition to a unit on Aboriginal/Indigenous education, art, place-based learning, culture, traditions, and more!Included in the download:-A teacher's guide, which includes helpful links-An article for students about Northwest Coast art-A wor
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K - 3rd
Also included in: Inuit Culture and Northwest Coast First Nations - Bundle
Canadian Provinces and Territories Puzzle
This is an illustrated puzzle of Canadian Provinces and Territories in Google Slides. Just click and drag each province/territory to put together the map of Canada. 5 separate challenge levels are included, from unlabelled regions with no map background to labeled regions with a map background that includes each region for younger students.Great for Bell Work, as review, or to introduce the Map of Canada.
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4th - 8th
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