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Beausoleil First Nation, Grade 7

Big Ideas
CURRICULUM
CONNECTIONS People’s activities are related to the physical features and processes in
their region.
The Ontario Curriculum (2018)
Social Studies Grades 1 to 6,
Framing Question
History and Geography Grades
7 and 8 • How does living on Christian Island impact the lives of the people

Overall Expectations: living there?
Geography. A1. analyze some
challenges and opportunities
presented by the physical
Background Information
environment and ways in which
people have responded to them Beausoleil First Nation Resource Book:
Specific Expectations: A1.1 Pages 39 to 40, Transportation. These pages outline what is
describe various ways in which
involved in getting from Christian Island to the mainland in
people have responded to
different seasons. It explains the modes of transportation and the
challenges and opportunities
challenges during winter and spring when the ice is not safe.
presented by the physical
environment
Page 41, Our Stories: A Day in the Life of a Secondary School
Student. Each school day is 10 hours long for the student profiled
on this page, due to the time it takes to get to and from school.
MATERIALS She relates the stages of her day and how she spends them.
1. Beausoleil First Nation
Resource Book
2. talking item (stick,
Emotional (Relate) Activating Prior Knowledge,
stone, feather)
Minds On
CONNECTIONS TO
Opening Circle
LANGUAGE:
Prompting Questions:
water: nibi (nih-bih)
• Share what you had to do to get to school this morning. What was
mainland: odenaang
your biggest challenge?
(ohdeh-nawng)
• Have you ever been somewhere where you felt isolated?
food: miijim (mee-jim)
island: mnis (mih-nis) • What is it like to be at home? What does home mean?
the big island: Ggchimnis
(gih-chi mih-nis)
at the island: mnising
(mih-nih-sing)
at the big island: Gchmnising
(Gih-chi-mih-nih-sing)

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