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Contributing to Our Lifestyles

Identify the most important influence, such as geography, resources or climate, on our quality of life, and identify the most important influence on quality of life in another Canadian community.


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Specific Outcomes

This critical challenge may address these outcomes:

Specific Outcome 5.1.1.2 - Students will appreciate the diversity of geographic phenomena in Canada (LPP)
Specific Outcome 5.1.1.4 - Students will appreciate how the land sustains communities and the diverse ways that people have of living with the land (GC, LPP)
Specific Outcome 5.1.1.5 - Students will appreciate the influence of the natural environment on the growth and development of Canada (LPP)
Specific Outcome 5.1.2.2 - How do landforms, bodies of water and natural resources affect the quality of life in Canada? (LPP)
Specific Outcome 5.1.2.5 - How is the geographical region they live in different from other regions of Canada? (LPP)
Specific Outcome 5.1.3.1 - In what ways do natural resources and the physical geography of a region determine the establishment of communities? (ER, LPP)
Specific Outcome 5.S.1.2 - Students will evaluate ideas, information and positions from multiple perspectives
Specific Outcome 5.S.3.1 - Students will use latitude and longitude to determine the absolute location of places in Canada on maps and globes
Specific Outcome 5.S.3.4 - Students will use cardinal and intermediate directions and simple grids to locate places on maps and globes
Specific Outcome 5.S.3.5 - Students will use scale to determine the distance between places on maps and globes
Specific Outcome 5.S.3.6 - Students will list, map and discuss major waterways that have been significant in the establishment of communities in Canada (e.g., St. Lawrence River, Great Lakes, St. Lawrence Seaway, Red River)
Specific Outcome 5.S.4.6 - Students will use graphic organizers, such as mind mapping/webbing, flow charting and outlining, to present connections between ideas and information in a problem-solving environment
Specific Outcome 5.S.7.9 - Students will organize information, using tools such as a database, spreadsheet or electronic webbing
Specific Outcome 5.S.8.6 - Students will extend the scope of a project beyond classroom collaboration by using communication technologies such as the telephone and e-mail
C Citizenship
ER Economics and Resources
CC Culture and Community
I Identity
LPP The Land: Places and People
GC Global Connections
TCC Time, Continuity and Change
PADM Power, Authority, and Decision Making
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