Teaching Taryn

This project involves students researching a region of Alberta and using symbols to represent the region. It is directly linked to the Alberta grade 4 social studies curriculum. The task is to use symbols, pictures and words to design a sports jersey that will represent your region. Students will then need to make a short description of the symbols, pictures and words on your jersey, and why they chose them. You will work independently to write about the symbols and pictures you chose.] Purpos

In this presentation, students will learn about Canadian Confederation and how it impacted Canada's diversity. The students will read and view pictures about confederation, Sir John A MacDonald, Canada Day, immigration to Canada, minorities, North West Mounted Police, the Canadian Pacific Railway, Chinese immigration and head tax, and be given ideas of class activities that you can incorporate. Please also see my Chinese Head Tax Debate Activity sheet in my TpT Store!

With this project, students use string/yarn and tacks to design their house with a variety of holiday lights in order to win the competition of best holiday lights! Requirements: • Calculate the total length of string you use for your entire house • Be creative • Show all your work on this page or attach another lined piece of paper with clearly labelled information Dilemma: • You only have $300 to spend on your light display • There are only 4 brands you can use for the competition • You canno

In this experiment, students explore the question: Why does my shadow change throughout the day? This worksheet gives students the opportunity to hypothesize, record observations, record measurement changes and come to a conclusion based on their observations. There are guided questions at the end to help their conclusions. This is a word document and can be changed/edited to your liking,

In this presentation, students will learn about New France and Canada. This is Canadian Curriculum and follows all of the outcomes from the program of studies.

Project Description: In partners/groups students will be given a person or group of people to research. Their job is to find answers to the questions provided and make 3 artifacts that could represent their person or group. Their goal is to choose artifacts that clearly represent who they have so that your peers will be able to accurately guess who they have at the end. As a class, each group will travel from station to station and try to determine which person/group you had to represent, base

In this presentation, students will read and learn about the underground railway. It is a working document. Teachers may adjust, add, take out anything that they need. Enjoy!

Print out the task cards and have students glue them into their journals or notebooks. There are questions about the fur trade on these task cards that student will need to complete. There is a rubric included. This is a word document and can be modified by the teacher!

This is a task card for students to incorporate into their visual journals. The students must choose one of the topics below that they feel they can dive into detail about.