Government of Canada

Government of Canada 

Students,

Today I had mentioned that our Social Studies periods would be dedicated to learning about our Canadian Government. Tomorrow will be our first official Social Studies period. You are going to be learning about basic information and a little bit of Canadian Government history! But do not fear, this is not dull, boring history, this is exciting and fascinating...I promise!

What I am going to ask you is to visit the Government of Canada website. The link to this website is above this message. Just click on it and a new tab will open in your internet browser that will take you right into the website. You will see the heading "About Canada" it is the first heading listed on the far left. Click this heading and enter the "Anthems and Symbols" page. Here you can learn ALL kinds of amazing things about Canada. Browse through as much as you would like to. However, please check out "The Symbols of Canada" pages. From here you will be taken to a Canadian Heritage site.

Step 1: When you access the website, click on the About Canada heading.

Government of Canada website

Step 2: Once you have entered "The Symbols of Canada" page your screen should look like this....

Canadian Heritage website 

For the purpose of tomorrows lesson, I would like you to choose ONE (1) of the Canadian symbols. Read and learn more about the symbol you have chosen. Draw it out as best as you can, use color and descriptive words. Tomorrow's lesson will evolve around our discussion of these symbols. As a class, we will then take what we have learned and create our own class symbol!


Parents,

in Grade 5, students are expected to achieve many learning goals throughout the Aspects of Citizenship and Government of Canada unit. This particular activity is targeted for the first expectation where students identify and describe significant Canadian symbols. For further information, this curriculum document can be found by clicking the link below, or by accessing the Ontario Ministry of Education website.

http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/curriculum/elementary/sstudies18curr.pdf


IMPORTANT NOTE: The Government of Canada website is an incredible source to access past and present information, statistics and news for the Canadian government. I would 'bookmark' this page in your internet browser because we will be referring to it quite a bit throughout our Social Studies course and it will definitely be useful for background information in major assignments as well!