Background Notes:

Activity One:

• if you have immigrated to Canada from another country, you may want to share information about your country before looking at Canada
• for the brainstorm you might want to narrow the scope of the question or give leading questions (e.g.: How is Canada divided? What are Canada's boundaries?)
• a homework assignment may be to have your student write a short story about her country
• an excellent source of resource material about Canada and other countries is Cultural Profiles: The Cultural Profile Project, AMNI Centre, 246 Bloor Street W. Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A1 (416) 946-3699 or (415) 946-3824
• the web is another great resources for articles about various countries

Activity Two:

• an alternative activity would be to give your student the handout, Provinces, and have her place the name of various provinces on the map
• this would alleviate any fears your student might have regarding the spelling of the names of the provinces

Activity Three:

• you may wish to provide your student with the spelling of the boundaries and then have them label the map
• you may wish to write the boundaries on post-it notes and have your student place the post-it notes on the map and then check each in the atlas
• when she is sure they are correctly placed she can copy the names on to the map

Activity Four:

• use a star for the capital cities as later you may wish to include major cities in each province and this could be done with a dot