Unit Plan

Courses: Social Studies, Language, Art

Grade Level: 4, 5 Unit Title: Would You Stay or Would You Go?
Heritage and Identity
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Strand: A. Early Societies, 3000 BCE 1500 CE
Strand: A. First Nations and Europeans in New France and Early Canada
1500s 1713
Overarching Question: If you travelled to a past society, either in Canada or
globally, and had the option to stay in that society or travel back to present day
Canada, would you stay or would you go? Why?
(See Learning Goals and Success Criteria handout for report card comments)
Overall Expectations:
Grade 4
A1. Application: compare key aspects of life in a few early societies (3000 BCE1500
CE), each from a different region and era and representing a different culture, and
describe some key similarities and differences between these early societies and
present-day Canadian society (FOCUS ON: Continuity and Change; Perspective)
A2. Inquiry: use the social studies inquiry process to investigate ways of life and
relationships with the environment in two of more early societies (3000 BCE1500
CE), with an emphasis on aspects of the interrelationship between the environment
and life in those societies (FOCUS ON: Interrelationships)
A3. Understanding Context: demonstrate an understanding of key aspects of a few
early societies (3000 BCE1500 CE), each from a different region and era and
representing a different culture, with reference to their political and social
organization, daily life, and relationships with the environment and with each other
(FOCUS ON: Significance)
Grade 5
A1. Application: analyse some key short- and long-term consequences of interactions
among and between First Nations and European explorers and settlers in New
France prior to 1713 (FOCUS ON: Cause and Consequence; Continuity and Change)
A2. Inquiry: use the social studies inquiry process to investigate aspects of the
interactions among and between First Nations and Europeans in Canada prior to
1713 from the perspectives of the various groups involved (FOCUS ON:
Perspective; Interrelationships)
A3. Understanding Context: describe significant features of and interactions
between some of the main communities in Canada prior to 1713, with a particular
focus on First Nations and New France (FOCUS ON: Significance; Interrelationships)
Unit Library Bookcase
- in-class library of diverse subject related books, including Aboriginal and Cross
Cultural Content in Early Societies and New France
Lesson #

Learning Goals/Concepts

Description of Activity

Assessment Type

SS1. Creation of Turtle Island

Readers Theatre

AfL, AaL

A1.
A2. We Got the Whole World in Our
Hands
(2 classes to complete lesson)
SS2. When the World Began

SS3. What People Call Themselves

Papier Mache Globe

-read aloud
-think-pair-share discussion
AfL, AaL
-teacher observation
-think-pair-share discussion

Video
Review Unit Wall
K-W-L chart
Time line
- Source pictures online and/or
draw, contribute to Unit Wall
(Indigenous, Aboriginal, First
Nations, Inuit, Metis)

AfL

SS4. A Continent of Nations

- Regions and Nations Map

(label, colour, contribute to Unit
Wall)

AaL

SS5. Journals Back in Time

AaL

A3. Line
AGO Pre-Lesson

- Term/Word Wall
- Time Travel Journals
http://www.morrisseau.com

A4. To the AGO We Go!

AGO Field Trip
The Thomson Collection of
Canadian Paintings and First
Nations Objects

SS6. New Lands

10

SS7. Traders

11

SS8. A Fashion Reaction

12
13

SS9. A Place They Called Home

SS10. That Was Then, This Is Now

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/th
under-bay/lawsuits-allege-norvalmorrisseau-paintings-fake1.2520979
http://www.ago.net/groupsprogram-tours
Custom tours - collaborate with
the AGOs education department
to create a one-of-a kind tour.
The fee for a one-hour gallery tour
is $200.00 for a group of up to 20
visitors, plus gallery admission.
Email groupsales@ago.net for
more information.
- begin with Chinese Creation of
People story, segue into:
Gr 4s Early Societies 3000
BCE-1500 CE
Gr 5s New France 1500-1713
AD
- Trade activity
- independent research for time
travel journal entries
- HBC, Canadas merchants since
1670
- independent research for in-role
journal entries
- New France, seignuries
- current issues in the news
(residential schools, the Scoop,
health care and safety, Clovis
Arrowhead found by 10 yr old
boy)

AaL

AfL, AaL

AaL

AaL

AaL

AaL

AaL
AaL
-jigsaw activity

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SS11. Would you stay or would you go?

- Time Travel Journal

Presentations

AoL