Our Canada · Lesson 3
What Makes Canada, Canada?
Built. Physical. Social.
Draft the symbols that make us.
Turn and talk · 1 minute
Is this Canada? What kind of feature?
A
B
C
Three kinds of features
What makes Canada, Canada?
Built
Made by people
Towers, roads, bridges, carts, an inuksuk
Physical
From nature
Land, water, plants, animals
Social
How we live together
Sports, languages, laws, celebrations
12 minutes
Read
1 Read your version of the article.
2 Find one built, one physical and one social feature.
3 Write them in your notebook.
Quick check
1. One built, one physical, one social feature
2. Why identities, with an S?
3. Which feature is part of your Canada?
The game
Identity Draft
3 picks per team: one Built, one Physical, one Social.
20 seconds on the clock.
Every pick needs one fact. No fact? The card stays on the board.
Snake order
Round 1
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 →
Round 2
← 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Round 3
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 →
Defend every pick
Your sticky note
We draft ___
because it shows Canada is ___.
Fact: ___
Sample
Lacrosse
It shows Canada is older than Canada.
Fact: the Haudenosaunee call it the Medicine Game, a gift from the Creator.
Draft board: Built
made by people
1 CN Tower
A communications tower in Toronto.
2 Trans-Canada Highway
One road that crosses the whole country.
3 Peace Tower
The tower of Parliament, where laws are made.
4 Confederation Bridge
The bridge from P.E.I. to New Brunswick.
5 Inuksuk
A stone figure built by Inuit.
6 Canadarm
A robot arm built in Canada for space.
7 Red River Cart
A two-wheeled Métis cart.
8 Snowmobile
A machine for travelling over snow.
Draft board: Physical
land, water, plants, animals
9 Canadian Shield
Ancient rock under lakes and forests.
10 Great Lakes
Five giant lakes. Four of them touch Ontario.
11 Rocky Mountains
Mountains in Alberta and B.C.
12 Niagara Falls
Giant waterfalls on the Niagara River.
13 Longest Coastline
Canada touches three oceans.
14 Boreal Forest
The huge northern forest.
15 Maple Tree
The tree on our flag.
16 Beaver
Canada’s official animal symbol.
Draft board: Social
how people live together
17 Hockey
Canada’s national winter sport.
18 Lacrosse
Canada’s national summer sport.
19 Two Official Languages
English and French.
20 Multiculturalism
Many cultures, one country.
21 Charter of Rights
The rights every person in Canada has.
22 Maple Leaf Flag
Red and white with one maple leaf.
23 Powwow
A celebration of Indigenous music and dance.
24 Public Health Care
Doctors and hospitals for everyone.
After the draft · 7 minutes
Pattern check
1
Which kind did most teams pick first? Why?
2
Which 3 cards did nobody draft? Who would pick them first?
3
Whose Canada is missing from our board?
That is why we say Canadian identities.
Notebook · Page 3
Title: My Canada in 3
1
My Canada in 3: one built, one physical, one social.
2
Pick one. Why does it matter to someone who isn’t you?
3
One symbol missing from our board. Who would choose it?
DONE?
1 Level Up: rank our class’s top 5 picks
2 Help a teammate finish
3 Book work: a symbol for our book cover
Photo credits
Toronto skyline and CN Tower: Wladyslaw, CC BY-SA 3.0
Trans-Canada Highway sign, Winnipeg: Ken Lund, CC BY-SA 2.0
Centre Block and Peace Tower: Saffron Blaze, CC BY-SA 3.0
Confederation Bridge: Quintin Soloviev, CC BY 4.0
Inuksuit, Foxe Peninsula, Nunavut: Ansgar Walk, CC BY-SA 2.5
Canadarm on mission STS-116: NASA, Public domain
Red River cart: KrttiDesigns, CC BY-SA 4.0
Ski-Doo Olympique, 1969: YanikB, CC BY-SA 3.0
Canadian Shield rock: John Newcomb, CC BY 3.0
Gargantua Harbour, Lake Superior: D. Gordon E. Robertson, CC BY-SA 3.0
Mount Robson: The Cosmonaut, CC BY-SA 2.5 CA
Horseshoe Falls: Helen Filatova, CC BY 2.0
Gros Morne coast, Newfoundland: Michel Rathwell, CC BY 2.0
Miles Canyon, Yukon: Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0
Red maple leaves, Algonquin Park: Vincent Pham, CC BY-SA 4.0
Beaver: Cliff (Flickr), CC BY 2.0
Hockey stick and puck: Santeri Viinamäki, CC BY-SA 4.0
Lacrosse stick: Henning Schlottmann, CC BY-SA 4.0
STOP–ARRÊT sign, Calgary: WCL20 (Lycée Louis Pasteur), CC BY-SA 4.0
Kensington Market, Toronto: Chicken4War, CC BY-SA 4.0
Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms: Canadian Heritage, Open Government Licence – Canada
Maple Leaf flag, Vancouver: Dietmar Rabich, CC BY-SA 4.0
Powwow dancers: Peter K Burian, CC BY 4.0
Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario: Dmitri Lytov, CC BY-SA 3.0
All photos via Wikimedia Commons. Card facts: sources 1–21 on the teacher key.
Split-grade classes only
Swap cards
5/6 class
Longhouse replaces Confederation Bridge
Three Sisters replaces Niagara Falls
6/7 class
Rideau Canal replaces Canadarm
St. Lawrence River replaces Longest Coastline
A student from that grade gives the defence for a swap card.
5/6 swap cards
Built · Grade 5 lead
Longhouse
“Haudenosaunee” means People of the Longhouse. Some were 60 m (200 ft) long.
Physical · Grade 5 lead
Three Sisters
Beans climb the corn and feed the soil. Squash leaves shade the ground.
6/7 swap cards
Built · Grade 7 lead
Rideau Canal
Built 1826–1832, mostly by Irish labourers. Many died of malaria.
Physical · Grade 7 lead
St. Lawrence River
About 1,197 km long. It was the main route of New France.
Split-grade notebook
Same page, your grade’s question
Grade 5
Pick one feature from before 1713. Who made it? Does it still matter today?
Grade 6
My Canada in 3: one built, one physical, one social. Why?
Grade 7
Pick one physical feature. How did it shape where people lived or travelled before 1850?
Swap-card credits
Longhouse, Museum of Ontario Archaeology: QuartierLatin1968, CC BY-SA 3.0
Three Sisters garden: U.S. National Park Service, Public domain
Rideau Canal, Ottawa: Robert Linsdell, CC BY 2.0
St. Lawrence River at Québec City: Gabriel Picard, CC BY-SA 4.0
Sources: S1 Onondaga Nation, “Ganoñhsésgeh – Longhouse” · S2 Onondaga Nation, The Three Sisters · S3 The Canadian Encyclopedia, “Rideau Canal” · S4 The Canadian Encyclopedia, “St. Lawrence River”