Canada: Provinces and Capitals

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Grade 5 Social Studies IRP:

physical regions of Canada
maps and timelines

Why do countries, provinces, tribes, teams, schools have symbols like flags/birds/flowers?

Student Links

Sqworl Page for Students

Here's a link to a Sqworl page on Canadian Provinces and Capitals that I made for easy student access to the sites below. It's very very easy to create these pages and a great way to present a selection of websites for safe research or for home use. After registering for a free account, all you do is create a new group, enter each url you want to appear on the page, give it a short title or description and Sqworl creates the thumbnails which you can drag to arrange.

Research

World Book Entries and Activities

World Book for Kids has an entry on Canada plus an individual entry for each province. These entries can be read aloud using the site's text-to-speech.

Printables

Individual Provinces

The Kid Zone website has pages about each of the provinces and territories with very simple information about each, downloadable colouring and activity pages for each province's map, flower, flag, and a variety of online puzzles of provincial flowers or animals. A few of the provinces have photo tours.

Online Games

20 Games at Sheppard Software

Sheppard Software has a selection of 20 different games about Canadian Geography at their site. The games are organized into 3 main topic areas: Provinces, Capitals, and Geography (regions, rivers, lakes, oceans). Because this site has so many ads, I've chosen just a few to put on the sqworl page, but we can easily change or add to the selection.

Map Puzzle Game

The Owl Canada Map Puzzle has 3 different activities. Drag the province piece to the correct map location with or without province boundary outlines, and drag the capitol marker to the correct location. Select the activity on the front page and then click play. [For times when an Internet connection is unavailable, the Canada Map Puzzle can be downloaded HERE for use on a PC.]

Songs/Videos

	Provinces/Territories Video Canada's Provinces and Territories (2 min) names the provinces and territories and explains the difference. The video then provides information such as the oldest/newest/largest/smallest provinces.
	Trip Across the Provinces Video A Trip across Canada (3 min) shows the map, flag, and scenery from each province with the national anthem in English and French playing in the background.
	Canada in My Pocket Great song about the symbols on Canadian coins. Extension activity: write verses for the Loonie and Toonie.
	Regions of Canada Video 14:26 This video, set to music contains pictures with captions showing scenes from several regions of Canada. Teacher Caren R. says she sometimes uses this film at the beginning of a unit to get kids thinking about the regions of Canada and suggests muting the music.

Clicker5 (requires the Clicker5 software)

	Symbols of Canada (Clicker 5, Clicker Paint) activity can be downloaded free from SET-BC. This Clicker Grid Set is designed to introduce students to symbols of Canada. This activity supports the BC Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for Grade 1 Social Studies: Identity, Society and Culture: Learning Outcome - identify symbols of Canada Grade 2 Social Studies: Politics and Law: Learning Outcome - explain the significance of Canada’s symbols Created by Daphne Mercier.
	Flags of Canadian Provinces and Territories (Clicker 5 and Clicker Paint) activity can be downloaded free from SET-BC. This Clicker Grid Set is designed to enable students to recognize and color in flags of the provinces and territories of Canada. Students use Clicker Paint to color in the flag correctly. This activity supports the BC Ministry of Education IRP for Social Studies 3, Human and Physical Environment: - Learning Outcome: identify characteristics of the provinces and territories of Canada.
	Canadian Provinces Territories and Capitals (Clicker5 and ClickerPaint) activity can be downloaded free from SET-BC. In this gridset, students will learn about the Canadian provinces, and territories and their capitals. They can write about what they have learned in a sentence task. Knowledge can be assessed by using ClickerPaint to label the provinces and match provinces to capitals. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for Grades 2 and Grade 3 Social Studies: identify and locate the provinces and territories of Canada. Created by Kathy Ryan.
	Province Labels (Clicker5) activity can be downloaded free from SET-BC. Label the Canadian provinces and territories ( name of province, capital city, body of water and provincial neighbour). This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for Grade 2 Grade 3 Social Studies ( Environment): -identify and locate the provinces and territories of Canada -identify characteristics of the provinces and territories of Canada Created by Nedra Post.
	Canada Map Study (Clicker5) activity can be downloaded free from SET-BC Canada map Study is a Clicker activity for elementary and intermediate students learning the names, locations, capitals, abbreviations, of each province and territory of Canada. There is also an activity to help introduce Canada's National Anthem. This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for Grade 3 Social Studies ( Environment): -identify and locate the provinces and territories of Canada -identify characteristics of the provinces and territories of Canada. Created by Jim Oliver.