OUR HOME AND NATIVE LAND. explorers of CANADA. Above: The painted ceiling in the lower foyer of the House of Commons Chamber Ottawa, Ontario

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1 OUR HOM AN NATIV LAN explorers of CANAA Above: The painted ceiling in the lower foyer of the House of Commons Chamber Ottawa, Ontario

2 O U R H O M A N N A T IV L A N explorers of canada Written by Sonja. Schild LearnSmart Publishing Co. Vancouver, BC Phone: (604) Fax: (604) mail: info@learnsmart.ca Website: Copyright LearnSmart 2002 This book is reproducible for classroom use only. ISBN Notice! All rights reserved. Permission to reproduce this publication extends only to individual teachers for individual classroom use. The reproduction of any part for an entire school or school system, or for commercial use, is strictly prohibited. No part of it may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in an acknowledged review. PRINT IN CANAA COVR: 1596 map of North and South America after the voyages of Columbus by T. de Bry.

3 INTROUCTION The workbook XPLORRS OF CANAA of the series OUR HOM AN NATIV LAN covers the period of Canadian history from the arrival of the uropeans at the beginning of the 11th century to the present. It is a funway for students to learn Canada s history. It is suitable for social studies activities in the classroom, students with special needs, SL students and home schooling. The pages of XPLORRS OF CANAA can be used for teaching, reviewing and testing. They can be used consecutively or randomly as needed, and they can be used at different grade levels. The first half of the book consists of clearly outlined lessons and corresponding maps, designed to eliminate preparation time. The focus is on teaching students the most important discoveries and achievements of the explorers by using maps, charts and illustrations. The second half of the book reinforces and tests students by using pictures, games, maps and word search puzzles to make it fun. The book contains 48 worksheets and 19 maps. ach map belongs to a specific worksheet and therefore both have the same page number and title. XAMPL: Page# l called Leif ricsson corresponds and should be used with Map #1 called Leif ricsson Also included are 2 colour pages: xplorer Portraits xplorer Ships Most pages have a section called. It requires research by the student and encourages creative thinking and problemsolving.

4 TABL OF CONTNTS xplorers of astern Canada: Leif ricsson John Cabot Jacques Cartier 1534 Jacques Cartier 1535 Samuel de Champlain Henry Hudson xplorers of the Prairies: Henry Kelsey Pierre de La Vérendrye Anthony Henday xplorers of Northern Canada: Samuel Hearne Alexander Mackenzie 1789 John Franklin Roald Amundsen Henry Larsen xplorers of Western Canada: George Vancouver Alexander Mackenzie 1793 Simon Fraser avid Thompson Additional Worksheets: Important xplorers Biography efine This! xploration from A to Z xploration of Canada xploration Timeline xplorer Place Names xplorers and their Ships xplorer s Journal xplorers of Canada Fun Facts Identify the xplorers #1, #2 & #3 Jeopardy #1 & #2 Name the xplorer Northwest Passage Ships Places named after xplorers Research Project Sea Monsters What did I do? #1 & #2 This is what I did! Viking Ships What is the Question? When was it? Which xplorer is it? Who am I? Who was it? Project valuation Form Answer Key 1 & Map #1 2 & Map #2 3 & Map #3 4 & Map #4 5 & Map #5 6 & Map #6 7 & Map #7 8 & Map #8 9 & Map #9 10 & Map #10 11 & Map #11 12 & Map #12 13 & Map #13 14 & Map #14 15 & Map #15 16 & Map #16 17 & Map #17 18 & Map #18 19 & Map # , 31 & & & , 51, 52

5 Name: ate: LIF RICSSON In 1000 Leif ricsson discovered Baffin Island, Labrador and Newfoundland. ricsson s ancestors, the Vikings, sailed from Scandinavia (Sweden, Norway, enmark) west across the Atlantic Ocean. First they settled in Iceland and then in Greenland. ricsson heard that there was forestland west of Greenland, and in 1000 he set out to find it. These are the lands he found: Fill in the missing vowels. TOAY S NAMS: VIKING NAMS: 1. HLLULAN (land of rocks) 2. MARKLAN (land of forests) 3. VINLAN (land of vines) 1. B _ FF _ N _ SL _ N 2. L _ BR R 3. N _ WF NL _ N In 1000 Leif ricsson landed in Vinland and built a settlement. After one winter he loaded his ships full of timber and returned with his men to Greenland. We know this because in 1960 archaeologists excavated the foundations of several Viking houses on the northern tip of Newfoundland at today s L Anse aux Meadows In 1977 Canada declared L Anse aux Meadows a national historic site. In 1978 it was also declared a UNSCO World Heritage Site. o the following on Map #1 using the above text: Colour _ (Sweden, Norway, enmark) orange. Colour the first place the Vikings settled brown. It is: _ Colour the next place the Vikings settled green. It is: _ Label the Atlantic Ocean. Trace the routes of the Vikings to Iceland and Greenland in purple. Label Baffin Island, Labrador and Newfoundland with their Viking names. They are: Colour them red. Label L Anse aux Meadows and colour its symbol red. Trace ricsson s route from Greenland to L Anse aux Meadows and back in red. Label the Viking ships. One is called knorr and the other is called longship. 1 The word Viking means. st 1. The Vikings were the 1 uropeans to build a settlement in Canada. YS NO 2. Who did the Vikings encounter in Vinland? 3. What is UNSCO? 2003 LearnSmart

6 N NW N N O R W A Y SWN BAFFIN ISLAN LABRAOR H NW FOUNLAN GRNLAN ICLAN W SW S S MAP SYMBOLS H Viking Leif ricsson Canada borders National historic site Inuit Beothuk Map #1 Leif ricsson 1000 NMARK U R O P A F R I C A 2003 LearnSmart

7 C T Name: ate: JOHN CABOT In 1497 John Cabot discovered Newfoundland and the Grand Banks fishing ground. ngland wanted to find a sea route to the riches of Asia ( gold, spices, silk) across the northern Atlantic Ocean. This sea route was called the Northwest Passage. King Henry VII authorized John Cabot to search for it and any new lands. Fill in the missing verbs: Use the wordbank on the right. Cabot, his son and a crew of 18 men from Bristol, ngland, on his ship the Matthew. On June 24, 1497, Cabot on the coast of Newfoundland where he _ a flag claiming the land for ngland. On the Grand Banks Cabot s men lots of codfish. They were so plentiful that the sailors simply _ them up with baskets. With his ship full of fish, Cabot to ngland. He became a national hero there and was called the Great Admiral. A year later Cabot sailed again this time with 5 ships and 300 men. One ship turned back. The others were never heard of again. Nobody knows what happened. o the following on Map #2 using the above text: Colour ngland yellow and Newfoundland green. Label the Atlantic Ocean. Label the city John Cabot sailed from. Colour its symbol red. It is in _. Label John Cabot s ship. It is: Trace Cabot s route in red. Add the date he landed in Newfoundland in red. It was: Label the fishing ground off the coast of Newfoundland and colour it blue. It is: R P OO S T F L TU RN L AN 2 CA U G H P LA N T id Cabot find the Northwest Passage?... YS NO 1. id Cabot land on the continent of Asia?... YS NO 2. Which continent did John Cabot land on? 3. id Cabot know he had discovered an unknown continent?... YS NO 4. Why did he become a national hero? 5. Write a report called Fishing on the Grand Banks Then and Now LearnSmart

8 N NW N SW S BAFFIN ISLAN LABRAOR NW FOUNLAN MAP SYMBOLS John Cabot Canada borders City GRNLAN ICLAN Map #2 John Cabot 1497 IRLAN W S ate landed: NGLAN 2003 LearnSmart