fur trade
BC Curriculum ~ Big Ideas:
Lesson 1: Introducing the Fur Trade
Why did Europeans come to Canada? Fur trade game (2 groups) ~ PIT card game |
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Why was beaver fur so popular and valuable?
Trade Goods and Cultural Exchange
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In pairs, read the Kayak article: Beaver Trade. Highlight the important information. Add any new information to the 'learn' column on the KWL chart.
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Choose one of the hats from the article you just read that YOU want to 'sell'.
Look at the historic advertisements for beaver hat sales in the U.S. by clicking on the beaver hat picture on the right. In a group of 2 or 3, make a poster/ad to sell your choice of beaver hat. How can you make it more appealing than the ads from back then? |
Europeans wanted furs. They had the power of money and guns. First Nations were the hunters and trappers. They had the power of controlling the fur supplies. They also had the knowledge of the land. Fur traders depended on First Nations for their business and survival. First Nations and Europeans were equal partners in the fur trade.
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Reflection: If you were alive back in the 1700 / 1800's, would you have bought a beaver hat? Why or why not?
Lesson 2: More on why Europeans came to North America
How did trade affect cultures and land? What might have made it difficult for the people in this picture to trade? (language, cultural differences, travelling long distances, etc.)
Before settlers arrived, Indigenous peoples already trades amongst their own communities across North America.
Read the information and use the legend on the map to name locations where weapons were found/traded.
How do you think trade with the Europeans might have impacted the pre-existing trade that was happening between local indigenous commuties?
Read the information and use the legend on the map to name locations where weapons were found/traded.
How do you think trade with the Europeans might have impacted the pre-existing trade that was happening between local indigenous commuties?
Martellus World Map
Notetaking tips:
- choose only the important information
- put the words from the text in your own words
- organized list means all notes will be on their own line and be lined up on the left side of the page
Researching an Explorer
- Henry Hudson
- John Cabot
- Samuel de Champlain
- Jacques Cartier
- Martin Frobisher
- Alexander Mackenzie
- James Cook
Notes (important facts about your explorer) must answer the following questions:
- Where were they from?
- What years were they alive for?
- Why did they become famous?
- What is something important they did in the new territory that they explored?
- At least one one interesting fact. Can you add more?
Exit slip: What is one new thing you learned about early explorers?
Lesson 3: Explorer Google slideshow
You will be adding your information to one slide in the slideshow.
Make sure to add a picture of your explorer.
Include the website address for where you found it ~ bibliography.
You will be adding your information to one slide in the slideshow.
Make sure to add a picture of your explorer.
Include the website address for where you found it ~ bibliography.
Lesson 4: Explorer slideshow presentations
- What are you proud of about your group presentaton and why?
What do the two journal entries tell you about these explorer's first impressions of the Indigenous people they encountered?
Lesson 5: The Goods Being Traded / Reasons for Trade / How did trade affect cultures and land?
- Based on what we have already learned about Indigenous peoples this year, how do you guess their communities may have been involved in the fur trade?
- How might the fur trade have impacted their lives?
Pair up with others and share key info that you learned from the readings.
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Write a journal entry from the perspective of an indigenous person hunting beaver for the fur trade. How has contact with Europeans changed your life? What do you enjoy about your life? What challenges do you face?
Lesson 6: Another Look at Indigenous involvement in the fur trade.
- Based on our lesson last day, tell me why Indigenous people's involvement was so important in the Fur Trade? Give some examples of how they helped the settlers or were involved in the trading process.
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Share answers from question #2 on the T-chart document. In what ways has your life been impacted by the fur trade?
Lesson 7: The French Fur Trade
- The French were the first European settlers in what would become Canada. They called this land 'New France'.
The French Fur Trade worksheet | |
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Discuss what you learned from the video.
How would you describe the Voyageurs? Would you have been brave enough to be a Voyageur if you lived way back then? Why or why not?
How would you describe the Voyageurs? Would you have been brave enough to be a Voyageur if you lived way back then? Why or why not?
Write a journal from the perspective of a voyageur. What do you enjoy about your life? What challenges do you face? How has contact with Indigenous people changed your life?
Lesson 8: Building a Fur Trading Post ~ scavenger hunt
Find the 14 criteria for building a fur trading post. They will be posted in your classroom and the library. Copy them down onto to your recording sheets.
Find the 14 criteria for building a fur trading post. They will be posted in your classroom and the library. Copy them down onto to your recording sheets.
Lesson 9: Design your fur trading post!
What is a fur trading post? Brainstorm what you know.
- Watch the video on Rocky Mountain House Fort. Discuss your observations.
Decide on the 8 most important criteria out of the 14 you found last class. Using that criteria as a guide, you and your partner will choose the best place to build a fort in Canada, and complete a mapping activity to show this. You will also explain why you think your location is the best place to build.
We will be using Google Maps to help with our search.
We will be using Google Maps to help with our search.
How to Conduct Online Research
- Introduction: How to Conduct Online Research
- Review written instructions for the mapping activity in their student packages given out last day
- Today you will be doing research to choose where to build their Fort, but first they need to learn how to research.
- Brainstorm: what do you already know about how to and why to conduct online research?
- How google works, how to choose search words, and what websites to trust as sources. LINK: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Whu05Zk7p_DUbIwY4TMXOG2G0XS7VKYt/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=117158967080416602955&rtpof=true&sd=true
- Citations for BIBLIOGRAPHY: copy and paste the website address of their source into a presentation.
- Discussion:
- What questions do you still have about conducting research?
- How can we use these skills to help us learn more about the fur trading forts?
- Show them how to google “City, Canada, B.C., River”, or whichever province they choose.
- Show them how to search for locations on google maps and what to look for (nearby waterways, near oceans, few mountains around, etc.)
- Students get time to look through their criteria and start researching within their partner groups.
- One Chromebook per group
- ***All notes should be taken by hand in their Writing Notebooks (which should be clipped into the writing section of their binders in their desks).
Share one thing you learned from the article. |
furtradecanadainquiryprojectunitdesignahudsonsbaycompanyfort-1.pdf | |
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Lesson 10: The North West Company
Lesson 11: The British Fur Trade and the Hudson Bay Company
- Work with a partner to complete the reading "The British Fur Trade" and fill in the venn diagram comparing the Hudson's Bay Company to the Northwest Company.
The British Fur Trade | |
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Trading Post video from the National Film Board. Note: this film was made in 1978 and refers to Indigenous peoples as Indians.
Write a journal from the perspective of an HBC employee at a fur trading fort. What do you enjoy about your life? What challenges do you face? Is your trade with the Indigenous peoples fair?
Lesson 12: The Beaver Wars
Lesson 13: The Battle of Seven Oaks / The merge of the NWC and HBC
Lesson 14: (assessment) How did the fur trade lead to the creation of Canada?
Final Lesson: The Fur Trade Game
Lessons from: https://lawlessons.ca/curriculum/grade-4/fur-trade