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News Travels

  • Uncover the clues about the connections reported in newspaper headlines.
  • What is Canada's most important connection with each of the four profiled countries?

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Specific Outcomes

This critical challenge may address these outcomes:

Specific Outcome 3.1.3.1 - Where, on a map and/or globe, are the communities in relation to Canada?
Specific Outcome 3.1.4.2 - What goods and services do the communities import from and export to other parts of the world?
Specific Outcome 3.2.1.1 - Students will recognize how their actions might affect people elsewhere in the world and how the actions of others might affect them
Specific Outcome 3.2.2.2 - What are some environmental concerns that Canada and communities around the world share?
Specific Outcome 3.S.2.1 - Students will correctly apply terms related to time, including past, present, furture
Specific Outcome 3.S.3.1 - Students will create and use a simple map to locate communities studied in the world
Specific Outcome 3.S.3.2 - Students will use cardinal and intermediate directions to locate places on maps and globes
Specific Outcome 3.S.3.3 - Students will apply the concept of relative location to determine locations of people and places
Specific Outcome 3.S.7.1 - Students will make connections between cause-and-effect relationships from information gathered from varied sources
Specific Outcome 3.S.7.2 - Students will evaluate whether information supports an issue or a research question
Specific Outcome 3.S.7.5 - Students will access and retrieve appropriate information from electronic sources for a specific inquiry
Specific Outcome 3.S.7.6 - Students will navigate within a document, compact disc or other software program that contains links
Specific Outcome 3.S.7.7 - Students will organize information from more than one source
Specific Outcome 3.S.7.8 - Students will process information from more than one source to retell what has been discovered
Specific Outcome 3.S.7.9 - Students will draw conclusions from organized information
Specific Outcome 3.S.7.10 - Students will make predictions based on organized information
Specific Outcome 3.S.9.2 - Students will identify keywords from information gathered from a variety of media on a topic or issue
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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