Web-Based Student Learning Activities
Web-Based Student Learning Activities
These web-based student learning activities are based on the
Ontario curriculum and are formatted to be "printer -friendly" so they
can be used as recording sheets by students as well as providing direct links to
the web pages.
Answer keys are available to teachers by using the
Contact page.
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Grade 8 HistoryThe Métis
(also available as a Word document metis.doc)
Who are they and what was their everyday life like?
Personalities of 1885
(also available as a Word document
1885.doc)
Read and summarize the biographies of key "personalities" of the North West
Rebellion of 1885
Advertising for Immigrants Abroad
(also available as a Word document
immigration.doc)
Learn how the government of Canada advertised for immigrants to settle
Western Canada.
Industry, Workers and Unions
(also available as a Word document
labour.doc)
Learn about the Industrial Revolutions in Canada, working conditions for
children and the "Wobblies".
Women, Work and Unions
(also available as a Word document
women.doc)
Read about the connections and follow "A Hundred Years of Women's Work in
Hamilton"
The Women's Movement
(also available as a Word document
womens_movement.doc)
Learn about the suffrage movement and the "Famous Five"
Jack Turner's War
(also available as a Word document
war.doc)
Explore unique and powerful photographs taken by a Canadian soldier in
World War I.