I'm working with Jennifer Janzen, a teacher at the University of Winnipeg Collegiate this week. Her students are researching Canadian explorers and I'm helping them learn how to use Google Maps to create their own interactive maps of Canadian exploration. It's actually a lesson plan that you can find here that I outlined a few years ago, and I'm excited to see how it goes in the classroom.
The list of explorers that we are looking at includes:
- Martin Frobisher 1576-1578 (Suneet and Chloe)
- Henry Hudson 1610-1611 (Joey and Jill)
- Samuel Hearn 1769-1772 (Ila and Jerard)
- Alexander MacKenzie 1789 (Rene and Delaney)
- William Edward Parry 1819-1820 (Lily and Jay)
- John Ross 1829-1833 (Jesse and Sarah)
- George Back 1833-35
- Captain Sir John Franklin 1845-1848 (Kate and Colin)
- John Rae 1846-1847 (Clayton and Breanna)
- Richard Collinson 1850-1855 (Rina and Gulkesh)
The starting points for this assignment in terms of research include:
Dictionary of the Canadian Biography
Library and Archives Canada
Canadian Encyclopedia
Canadian Geographic Names Database
The Beaver Index
Example Map:
View UofWCollegiate Explorers Maps in a larger map
I will keep you up to date on how things go in the next two weeks.