Political and Physical Regions of Canada
People and Environments
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Overview
Continuing to build on what they learned in earlier grades, students will study the interrelationship between human activities and the environment on a national scale. They will build on their knowledge of municipal and landform regions, studying Canada’s political regions, including the provinces and territories, and physical regions such as the country’s landform, vegetation, and climatic regions. Students will investigate issues related to the challenge of balancing human needs and environmental stewardship in Canada. They will continue to develop their mapping skills, analysing print, digital, and interactive maps and using spatial technologies to investigate human interactions with the environment.
Framing Questions
In what ways are our lives similar to and different from
the lives of people in the past?
What methods can we use to find out about the challenges faced by people in the past? What methods can we use to find out how they may have felt about those challenges and how they coped with them?
How did people in the past relate to the environment? To each other?
Who lived in colonial Canada? How did these groups differ from each other?