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Grade 5 - Social Studies: Interactions of Indigenous Peoples and Europeans prior to 1713,
in What Would Eventually Become Canada

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Discovering Canada: Our Early Explorers
(26 mins. Grades 3-8)

Inquiry Process

  • What are some ways in which colonialism has shaped Canada?

 

  • Why might the same event have a different impact on different people?

 

  • Why is it important to understand that different people have different perspectives?

 

  • How do we form our own perspective? How do other people form theirs?

 

  • What causes conflict? Do all conflicts have a resolution?

 

  • Why is it important to cooperate with others?

The Ontario Curriculum, 2023 (revised)
Social Studies, Grades 1-6;
History and Geography, Grades 7-8

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Search words for the catalogue: 
First Nations; Inuit; Métis; first peoples; first contact [alone or + Europeans]; explorers; Canada [or North America] + discovery and exploration; fur trade; missionaries Canada; Jesuits; Norse; Hudson/ Champlain/ Cabot/ Cartier, etc.