Becoming A Leader: Canadian Government.

As a Canadian, we enjoy many rights and freedoms. Along with those rights, we must also take responsibliity for our actions. 

This webquest is designed to develop your skills in multiple areas.

The expectation is that student will:

• explain citizenship in terms of participation in the community, province, country.
• demonstrate an understanding of equality and fairness in Canada with respect to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
• summarize the purposes of municipal, provincial, & federal governments.
• gather and record a body of information from a variety of primary and secondary sources
• use an outline to organize information into a coherent presentation

The project will also encourage and develop the following skills:

1. Inference-making
2. Critical thinking
3. Observation and categorization
4. Comparison
5. Teamwork
6. Compromise

You will be assigned to a party of two or three students. Each group member will hold one of the following positions:

• Party Leader - This person's role will be to co-ordinate the various tasks that the party has been assigned. Their role is to also ensure that all party members contribute to the final project in an equal manner
• Party Historian - This person's role is to supervise the party members to ensure that they complete their assigned part of the written work; and then to co-ordinate the assembly of this part of the final project.
• Party Media Person- This person's role is to supervise the party members to ensure that they assist in locating and accumulating the materials needed for the final project

Once you've decided who will complete each job, you will begin your research using the resources that are found in the Resources section to complete the various challenges listed below.

Be aware that you will need to save any information you want to use later in google drive.  Remember to copy and paste text into a google document and note where you obtained the information fromas a reference.  

Challenges

1.  Your first challenge will be to learn about the three levels of government in Canada.  To complete this first challenge you will visit one site to find out more about Canada's governments. You will find the link to this site on activity sheet #1.To go to the next slide on the web page, you need to click on the ">" under the picture. (There are 9 slides all together). Go to activity sheet #1 to find out the steps needed to complete this first challenge.

2.  Your next challenge is to discover more about Canada's main government. To complete all parts of this challenge you will need to visit different sites. You will locate the links on the activity sheet #2  where you will discover the steps needed to complete this second challenge. (View Video)

3.  Challenge #3 will be to to discover more about Parliament Hill located in Ottawa, the capital of Canada. You will be taking a virtual tour of the buildings. Go to the virtual tour activity sheet to find out more about this challenge.

4.  Challenge #4 will be to to discover more about the provincial/territorial governments of Canada. To complete this challenge you will need to visit five different sites to find out more about Canada's provincial and territorial governments. You will locate the links on the activity sheet #3  where you will discover the steps needed to complete this fifth challenge. (Powtoon) (Powtoon 2)

5.  Your next challenge will be about the local or municipal governments of Canada. To complete this challenge you will need to visit two different sites to find out more about Canada's municipal governments. You will locate the links on the activity sheet #4  where you will discover the steps needed to complete this sixth challenge. 

7.  Your second to last challenge is to discover your rights and responsibilities that you have as a citizen of Canada. You will be visiting two sites to find out what these rights and responsibilities are. You will locate the links on the activity sheet #5  where you will discover the steps needed to complete this seventh challenge. 

Multimedia Presentation

TBA

Evaluation

The learning that you will do on this WebQuest will be marked out of a total of 100 marks. You will be evaluated on three different components. They are:

1. The completion of the challenges. They will be marked on the quality of your responses to the questions. Each challenge is out of 10 marks. (Total 60 marks)

2. Cooperation and effort that you exhibited during the completion of the WebQuest. Click hereto view the scoring rubric for this component. (Total 15 marks)

3. The multimedia presentation that you have completed and then presented to the class. Click here to view the scoring rubric for this component. (Total 25 marks)

This webquest uses ideas developed by Mike Ireland in 2002. 

http://schools.sd68.bc.ca/cila/ireland/govt/index.htm

Activity One:

http://www2.actden.com/writ_den/g01/Level2/page1.htm

http://projects.cbe.ab.ca/fishcreek/Grade6/Social_Studies.html

Activity Two:

http://www.parl.gc.ca/About/Parliament/Education/peopleparliament/studentact.asp?Language=E&param=1

https://www.gg.ca/index.aspx

http://www.parl.gc.ca/about/parliament/Education/glossary-younger-students-e.html

http://canadaonline.about.com/cs/primeminister/a/pmrole.htm

http://pm.gc.ca/eng

http://www.parl.gc.ca/about/parliament/guidetohoc/who-e.htm

Activity Three:

http://studentvote.ca/educational-tools/

http://alberta.ca/premier/index.cfm

http://www.nelson.com/albertasocialstudies/productinfo/gr6_9/docs/abss6ch9.pdf

http://www.alberta.ca/how-government-works.cfm

http://www.parl.gc.ca/about/parliament/senatoreugeneforsey/touchpoints/touchpoints_content-e.html

http://alberta.ca/index.cfm

http://www.alberta.ca/how-government-works.cfm

Activity 4:

http://www.parl.gc.ca/About/Parliament/SenatorEugeneForsey/book/chapter_8-e.html

http://www.calgary.ca/General/Pages/Calgary-City-Council.aspx

http://www.calgary.ca/_layouts/cocis/DirectDownload.aspx?target=http%3a%2f%2fwww.calgary.ca%2fcouncillors%2fDocuments%2fduties-pay-and-benefits-for-office-of-the-councillors.pdf&noredirect=1&sf=1

http://www.transforminggov.ca/

Activity Five:

http://www.parl.gc.ca/about/parliament/education/ourcountryourparliament/TeacherGuide/pdfs/booklet-Section1-e.pdf

http://www.pch.gc.ca/eng/1356631760121/1356631904950

http://www.albertahumanrights.ab.ca/publications/bulletins_sheets_booklets/bulletins/sheets.asp

Virtual Tour:

http://www.parl.gc.ca/About/Parliament/PhotoGallery/index-e.html

Extras:

http://www.parl.gc.ca/About/Parliament/SenatorEugeneForsey/book/chapter_6-e.html - 6_5

Activities:

THE THREE LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT

1. Before going to the Internet to discover the 3 levels of government, discuss among the members of your party what you think the 3 levels are. Write them below.

2. Now find out and name the three levels of government in Canada. Click here and click here to find out more.

1.

2.

3.

3. Give at least two examples of roles or responsibilities for which each level of government is responsible.

1.a)

  b)

2.a)

  b)

3.a)

  b)

3. Explain why you think these roles or responsibilities were assigned to this particular level of government.

CANADA'S FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

1. What are the main parts of Parliament? Click here to find out more.

2. What are the responsibilities of the Governor General? Click here to find out more.

3. Who is Canada's Governor General? Click here to find out.

4. What are the responsibilities of the Prime Minister? Click here and Click hereto find out more.

5. Who is Canada's current Prime Minister? Click here to find out. Then tell me three facts about the person.

6. What is the major role or responsibility of the House of Commons? Click here to find out more.

CANADA'S PROVINCIAL/TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENTS

Use the links provided. Remember you can also visit Student vote for more information. Click here to locate your province or territory. View reading about our government in Alberta and explore how  Alberta’s government works? Click here. 

1. Explain how the provincial and territorial governments are different from the federal government (Click here to find the answers to Questions #1).

2. What are the roles and responsibilities of provincial or territorial governments?

3. Who is Alberta’s current premier? Click here to find out.

 4. Who is Alberta’s Lieutenant Governor? Click here to find out.

5. What is an MLA? Who does the MLA answer to and represent?

CANADA'S LOCAL/MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENTS

1. Explain how the local or municipal governments are different from the federal and provincial/territorial government (Click here to find the answers to Questions #1).

2. a) How many councilors are there on the city council of Calgary?

     b) For how long are they elected?

      c) What are their roles/responsibilities?

3. What British Columbia act gives the city council it authority?

4. Who is the current mayor of Calgary? What makes him unique?

THE RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF CITIZENS

You will be using two sites to discover your rights and responsibilities as a citizen as laid out in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. To answer the questions #1 to 3, click here. 

1. List the rights that you have as a Canadian citizen. 

2. List the responsibilities that you have as a Canadian citizen.

3. After reading these rights and responsibilities, describe what it means to you to be a citizen of Canada.

4. Now read the purpose of the Human Rights Code for Alberta. How is the purpose of this code similar to that of the rights and responsibilities as found in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms? How is it different?

 Virtual Tour:

VIRTUAL TOUR OF PARLIAMENT HILL

READ ALL OF THE INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE YOU BEGIN YOUR TOUR. To start your tour, click here. When you arrive, click on the first picture (upper left). Once this picture enlarges, to go to the next picture click on ">Next " button in the upper right hand corner of the window.

1. As you take your tour, observe the different places and parts, and note things that you find interesting or think are important to know (such as the age of the buildings, what they are made of, decorations, etc). When you are finished your tour, write a short paragraph describing your tour of Parliament Hill. Remember to save some pictures of your favorite places that you visited so you can include them in your document.

Example of youtube video created