Canada's Provinces & Territories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781771586900)

Students will study Canada's ten provinces and three territories. During this study, students will develop and strengthen reading, research, and mapping skills.

Expand your student knowledge of Canada's:

• Physical Regions
• Climate
• Provinces
• Territories
• Capital Cities
• Bodies of Water
• Natural Resources
• Industrial Growth, and it's
• People

Includes 20+ activities, 23 maps, teacher guide, and answer key!

Seventeen lesson topics:

Lesson Plan #1: Where is Canada?

Lesson Plan #2: Canada's Borders

Lesson Plan #3: Canada's Provinces and Territories

Lesson Plan #4: Borders Inside Canada

Lesson Plan #5: Canada's Capital Cities

Lesson Plan #6: Physical Regions of Canada

Lesson Plan #7: Rivers of Canada

Lesson Plan #8: Lakes of Canada

Lesson Plan #9: Canada's Population

Lesson Plan #10: Climatic Regions of Canada

Lesson Plan #11: Canada's Natural Vegetation

Lesson Plan #12: The Atlantic Provinces

Lesson Plan #13: Qu饕ec

Lesson Plan #14: Ontario

Lesson Plan #15: Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta

Lesson Plan #16: British Columbia

Lesson Plan #17: The Territories

Learning outcomes for students include:

• describe the physical features of regions within the provinces.
• identify how regions are interdependent in relation to their economies and governments.
• demonstrate and become aware of the various relationships, economically and culturally, etc., within and between Canadian regions.
• identify the characteristics of the physical regions of their individual province/territory and all of Canada.
• name and describe the main features of a river system.
• demonstrate an understanding of the significance of the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes System.
• identify Canada's major natural resources and their uses.
• identify and describe types of communities in each physical region of each province and territory.
• demonstrate an understanding of the exchange of products within each province or territory and throughout Canada.
• identify the physical regions of Canada.
• describe and compare the physical environments of these regions according to land forms.
• identify the natural resources used to create Canadian products and the provinces/territories from which they originate.
• use appropriate vocabulary to describe their inquiries and observations.
• construct and read a variety of graphs, charts, diagrams, maps, and models for specific purposes such as to determine physical features, area of regions, size of populations, climate, etc.
• identify Ottawa as the capital city of Canada.
• locate and label the Great Lakes and other major bodies of water and waterways in Canada.
• identify symbols used to outline boundaries (international, national, provincial).
• locate and label the physical regions of Canada on a map.
• use cardinal and intermediate directions, non-pictorial symbols, and colour on a map to locate and describe physical regions.