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Settling the West [Grade 5] Activity Fields, Erin

Description

This activity will involve analyzing three advertisements from the Canadian Pacific Railway Company encouraging settlement in Manitoba. The purpose of this activity is to give your students practice in analyzing digital primary sources and to understand the context in which it was made. Incorporating sources from UBC Library’s Open Collections into your classroom can help students build their historical thinking through analyzing, contextualizing, and inferring using historical texts. OER Description: This activity/assignment on Canadian history was developed to support students in Grade 5. This open educational resource (OER) includes a lesson plan, worksheets, critical thinking questions, and activities.

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