History & Geography Lesson Plans
New France Census - Role Playing Jean Talon Students review tables of census data collected in 1665 and 1666 by Jean Talon. Students role play Jean Talon and prepare a presentation to convince the King of France to increase his investment in New France. This lesson plan uses data from Statistics Canada.
Population of New France ClarisWorks 5.0 file ("zipped")- student exercise for creating a spreadsheet and graph for Population of New France
Surfing for Earthquakes and Volcanoes - "The purpose of this lesson plan is to expose students to the breadth and depth of the Internet while they search for data pertaining to the world's volcanic and seismic activity. They then compile the data on a world map and make scientific inferences on the location of plate boundaries."
Google Earth Lessons - GELessons.com - A Free Public Resource - Providing Teachers with the tools needed to enhance their instruction using Google Earth®, the free program that brings the world to the classroom! A Website By and For Teachers.
Google Earth Lessons - GELessons.com - A Free Public Resource - Providing Teachers with the tools needed to enhance their instruction using Google Earth®, the free program that brings the world to the classroom! A Website By and For Teachers.
Patterns in Human Geography
Download zipped file containing four ClarisWorks 4.0 documents;
Canada Population Growth data in spreadsheet form, graph and instructions
Full-time Employment data in spreadsheet form, graph and instructions
Life Expectancy and Infant Mortality scatter graph
Literacy Rate and Birth Rate scatter graph
Economic Systems
Employment in the Three Sectors of Industry pie graph - zipped
ClarisWorks 5.0 file that shows the data in a spreadsheet and the two pie graphs