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 Our Roots, Our Future - Experiencing Canada's National Historic Sites in the Classroom

Our Roots, Our Future: Experiencing Canada's National Historic Sites in the Classroom will help you to enrich your history curriculum. Presented in a standard format and reviewed by practising history teachers, the activities help students understand how nationally significant places, people, and events interacted to create the story of Canada's past. Based on the history curricula taught in grades 5 to 11 across Canada, the activities explore:

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Our Roots, Our Future: Experiencing Canada's National Historic Sites in the Classroom
  • Canada's dynamic cultural and natural heritage
  • connections between the land, the waters, the past and the people
  • how the national historic sites are connected to the places, people, and events that define Canada
  • the responsibility all Canadians have for these powerful symbols of the past
  • the stories of our land and the stories of our people
  • defining moments in Canadian history

You will find a summary of the correlations with the relevant curriculum for your province or territory here. A more detailed explanation of the links between each activity and each provincial/territorial curriculum is found in the Curriculum Correlations section.

 

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