Social Studies Fun

The grade 2's have been learning about world communities and 

the grade 3's have been learning about the land form regions of Ontario. 

 The grade 2's shared their knowledge about Northern communities in Canada.

The people rely on Inukshuks to help them find their way.   

During indoor recess some students built Inukshuks.

'Look...one arm points to home and the other arm points to 

the water where they can find food.'

The grade 3's shared their knowledge of the land form regions of Ontario

through an experiment with plants.  To discover which land form region is 

best suited for farming we set up an experiment. 

'This will be like a wetland...it has lots of water.'

'This one is just getting dirt...'

'I don't know if anything will grow here...it's full of rocks...'

This 'rock land' is meant to be like much of the land in the Canadian Shield.

Areas of the Hudson Bay Lowlands, St. Lawrence/Great Lakes 

Lowlands, and the Canadian Shield have wetlands.

The St. Lawrence/Great Lakes Lowlands has large areas of rich, 

fertile soil.

We will see our results over the next week or two!