Katie Edney

Grade 5: Social Studies

Title of Unit : British, French & First Nations Interactions
Time required: 50 minutes/lesson (7 lessons)
Grade 5: Unit 5: Interactions
5.5.1: Examine interactions between British, French, First Nations and Inuit in what later
became Atlantic Canada
Grade 5: Unit 6: My Society
5.6.1: Illustrate the similarities and differences of past societies and your society
Class objective: Big Ideas, Key Questions: How did the British, French and First Nations
people interact? Did they help each other? Were there any negative aspects to their lives in
Atlantic Canada? What are the differences between British, French and First Nations lives in the
past and our lives now?
Assessment: Formative group work (research, presenting & sharing ideas, KWL charts).
Summative creative assignment of choice.
Lesson 1 of 4: Cultural Discovery Centres
- (40 minutes) To begin this unit, students will take part in a classroom cultural fair where there
will be three discovery centres, one for British, French and First Nations. In each

discovery centre will be videos, text books, children's books, and artifacts along with a
First Nations guest speaker that will visit the classroom. Students will look through and
grapple with the materials to gain knowledge through discovery based learning. At each
discovery centre, students will be responsible to fill out a KWL chart states something
that they knew previously, something that they want to learn and something that
they

have learned from the discovery centres.

- (10 minutes) To finish this discovery centre lesson, students will get into a talking circle and
discuss their KWL charts that they filled out. The teacher will ask students to put

their KWL charts into their Social Studies duo tang to reference later on in the unit.
Lesson 2 of 4: Clothesline Timeline project & Map of Atlantic Canada pinning
- (35 minutes) By presenting the class with a digital time line of events that highlights French

and British settlers and First Nations people, students will work in three groups to complete a
clothesline timeline of the 5 most important events that they identify as a group. The
clothesline timeline will be made using rope, cue cards and mini clothespins. Students will
write their important events on the cue cards and pin them to the rope.

- (15 minutes)They will present their timelines to the class and they will be hung up around the
classroom.
Lesson 3 of 4: Field-trip / photo scavenger hunt
- As an enrichment activity and to put real-life connections into perspective, students would be
able to take a field trip to one of the many historic parks and villages in the Atlantic region.

- This class would be going to the Acadian Village in Caraquet, NB where they will be able to
explore the village on a tour and see first hand how Acadian people settled not only their
homes but also spread their culture and persevered against odds.

- As an additional activity, each group of 4-5 students will be given a list of 10 things they must
find or reenact. The items on this list will be captured by taking a photograph and the photos
will be shown the following class in a slide-show. These photos will also be available to send
to parents, staff members, and others with permission.
Lesson 4 of 4: Comparing past and present societies
- (20 minutes) Students will have an open discussion about what they saw, discovered, and
learned on the field trip to the Acadian Village. During this discussion, students will reflect on
how different the past Acadian society is to our current society.

- (30 minutes)The final creative assignment will be introduced to students and they will be able
to brainstorm, ask questions, go over the assessment rubric, sign-up for resources and more.

- Students will be given three working periods of 50 minutes to finish this assignment.
- The following working periods would be assisted by mini-lessons based on students needs
and by using scaffolding as a teaching and learning strategy.
Creative assignment
Students will have an creative assignment to complete. Each creative assignment option will be
required to follow the same directing thought or question: how is our society different from past
English, French or First Nations societies? They will have a choice of 4 options and must pick
one:
- creative writing (story, poem, biography, autobiography, letter, etc)

- artistic project (3-D map, collage, portrait, etc)

- brochure of a historic park in the Atlantic region (technology available to students)
- oral presentation of personal reflections

Materials/Resources
Timehop: timeline of Acadian settlement in Atlantic Canada. Retrieved on 10 June 2015 from:
http://timeglider.com/t/a357ccc20480c4bf?min_zoom=1&max_zoom=100