Inspired by the work of Kelsy Norman, I have created a mini project that requires each student to learn some facts about a specific town, village or city in Alberta. Each student has been assigned a place in Alberta with some specific questions to research:
Students are free to conduct independent Internet research and share their findings by designing a digital poster in Pages. But, that's not the end of it. We will produce a slick video in which each student shares some of the information they learned about their assigned place. This will be an amazing production once it is finished. I plan on helping students learn effective and dynamic video techniques as well. Another important learning outcome of this assignment will be the various answers to the question about why these places came to exist. We have been learning about how the Canadian government took steps to encourage settlement in the West and by learning the origin story of these places, students will see that immigration to the west followed certain patterns. Some places were railway towns while some were previously part of the fur trade. Some were commercial centers that extracted rich natural resources from the land while others were agricultural centers. By analyzing the factors and forces behind these origin stories, students will gain an understanding of and appreciation for what led to the settling of Canada's western region and what role these places played in the development of the country. Here is a video created by Kelsy Norman that helped ignite our curiosity of Alberta's non-major cities. Project exemplar:I constructed an exemplar using Calgary as my place. Be sure to check it out:
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