Canada and Trade

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GRADE 6 EXPLORER PROJECT

Explorers Explore Canada

You, in a small group of three students, will research and report on one famous explorer. You will be graded on the following items:
-research notes in your own words
-a Power Point presentation about your explorer with maps
-a Comic Life comic strip about ONE of your explorer’s major accomplishments
-a Smart Board “Matching Game” using Notebook 10 about your explorer for the class to do after your presentation

For Your Explorer You Must Include:

- place and date of birth
- country he explored for
- purpose of exploration
- years of voyages and some details of each voyage
- area of Canada explored
- trading done with natives
- major accomplishment
- death

One of these explorers will be assigned to you:
John Cabot, Jacques Cartier, or Samuel de Champlain

Online Resources:
Think Quest: Explorers

http://library.thinkquest.org/J002678F/welcome.htm

Enchanted Learning: Canadian Explorers
http://www.zoomwhales.com/explorers/canada.shtml

Passageways: True Tales of Adventure
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/explorers/kids/index-e.html

Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
http://www.biographi.ca/index-e.html

European Explorers:
http://www.cdli.ca/CITE/explorer.htm




Book Resources:

Canada Revisited
Cabot, Cartier, and Champlain worksheets
Nelson Literacy

Here is a Comic Life comic about Christopher Columbus: