LESSON ONE
Immigration and Exploration

Time: One period (40 minutes)

Expectations:

Students will:

• use an atlas to find information.
• plot Aboriginal settlements in New France on a map.
• plot French settlements in New France on a map.
• demonstrate an understanding of where exactly the French lived.

• make transparency of Quebec City image found at Bienvenue au Québec
• have enough atlases for the class (If you do not have an atlas with a map of the settlements in New France
• visit the University of Georgia Libraries site to use this map of North America 1710 and this map of New France 1720
• locate and photocopy base map of North America
• photocopy evaluation of map

1. At the beginning of the class, have on the over head projector, the image of New France. (Overheads can be printed directly from the Internet using a colour printer and proper overhead transparencies that are printer-friendly.) Have the students analyze the picture and tell you what they see. Be sure to cover the topic of who is in the picture and approximately where it is.  Introduce the unit by explaining that they will be learning about New France and those who came to live here.
2. Using the atlases (or a projected image of the map of New France 1720), have students plot Aboriginal and French settlements in New France on the map of North America.

• teacher informal observation of student participation in picture analysis
• teacher observation of students' working habits
• teacher marks map