Explorers who made it...or died trying!

This webquest engages students in project based learning about early European and Canadian exploration.  It ideally takes two through three weeks to complete in the classroom, including researching, rough drafts, and final products. 

Standards

This WebQuest follows British Columbia Big Ideas Curricular Competencies for Grade 4 Social Studies. 

Big Ideas: 

• The pursuit of valuable natural resources has played a key role in changing the land, people, and communities of Canada.
• Interactions between First Peoples and Europeans lead to conflict and cooperation, which continues to shape Canada’s identity.
• Demographic changes in North America created shifts in economic and political power.

Curricular Competencies: 

• Use Social Studies inquiry processes and skills to ask questions; gather, interpret, and analyze ideas; and communicate findings and decisions
• Construct arguments defending the significance of individuals/groups, places, events, or developments (significance)
• Ask questions, corroborate inferences, and draw conclusions about the content and origins of different sources (evidence)
• Sequence objects, images, or events, and determine continuities and changes between different time periods or places (continuity and change)
• Differentiate between intended and unintended consequences of events, decisions, or developments, and speculate about alternative outcomes (cause and consequence)
• Construct narratives that capture the attitudes, values, and worldviews commonly held by people at different times or places (perspective)
  
  

Credits

Credits to Annie Reynders and her WebQuest Life as an Early Explorer
http://zunal.com/webquest.php?w=155922

The BC textbook used is Outlooks 4: Our Beginnings
Sterling, S. (1999). Outlooks 4: Our Beginnings. Toronto: Oxford University Press.