Being a Citizen: Rights & Responsibilities Brainstorm

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Being a Local / Global Detective

You are a national/global detective searching for items around your home that have connections to Canada or from another Canada?

Discuss the item, where it is from, its function and its connection to you and your family.

Mapping Skills

How do we use maps in our everyday lives?

Early Exploration

Watch the two videos and consider the big idea question:

1.  How might you describe the motivating factors for early European exploration and the prevailing/dominant attitude of the explorers?

Consider and further research the following (Connect back to the big idea question):

2.  Describe which explorers came to Canada

• what was their nationality?
• who commissioned them?
• when did they start their exploration into Canada?
• where did they start their exploration into Canada?
• how did their journey to Canada begin?
• why did they decided to explore the new world?

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Social Needs

How might the natural environment impact and shape the social needs of a civilization?

How might the natural environment impact and shape the physical needs of the people living in this civilization?

Rights and Responsibility

View and analyze the video then research the following guiding thoughts (these are questions to consider while researching:
What are your rights and responsibility as a Canadian Citizen?
How are they related?
Why are they important for all Canadians.
How do these rights and responsibility effect your daily lives?
How might these rights and responsibility be related to the three levels of government?

Helpful Links
Government of Canada
Canadian Charter

Municipal Level of Government

Describe a Municipal level of government.  Research and comment on the following for Municipal level of government.

·       Significant building and political figures within that level of government

·      Who gets elected into that level of government

·      How many are elected into that level of government?  What is there official title?

·      What are they roles and responsibility

·      Who elects them into power and who do they work for?

    Remember to agree, disagree and extend on each others thinking.  You do not have to answer all questions in one post.

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