Canadian History Timeline: 1784-1896

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A helpful way for students to organize their facts about Canadian History is in a timeline. This timeline highlights a few of the important dates from 1784-1896. In this activity, students will create a timeline of 5-10 events in Canadian history after 1783. Teachers may ask students to research 10 events and select 5-6 to put in their timeline, or allow them more freedom. They can also choose to provide students with a list of events to include at their discretion.

For an alternative to the timeline layout, have students create a timeline poster to incorporate into a presentation or gallery walk. You can add more than one template to this assignment to give students lots of options and adjust the instructions accordingly.


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Objective: Create a timeline in chronological order with accurate dates, descriptions and illustrations for 5-10 important events relating to Canadian history.< /p>

Student Instructions:

  1. Click “Start Assignment”.
  2. Choose 5-10 important events related to Canadian history.
  3. In the timeline template, click on “Timeline Dates”, and write the dates of each milestone in the date cells in chronological order. Then click “update timeline”.
  4. For each cell, list a title and write a 1-3 sentence description for each event.
  5. Create an illustration that represents each event using appropriate scenes, characters, and items.

Requirements: 5-10 events listed with correct dates, 1-3 sentence description and appropriate illustration



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