Lifestyles

Chapter titles/Suggested grade level

Suggested questions/Activities

Railway: Settling of the Prairies

How did the railway change immigration to the west?

Does the sugar beet market today still provide a great deal of part time seasonal work?

Consider ask a sugar beet farmer to come into your class to talk about harvest, time commitment, uses and history of the sugar beet industry.

Railway:

How did the railway effect settlement in southern Alberta? Examine the economic, religious, cultural and political changes that were brought with the building of the railway?

Freight the Railway main Diet has some information may need to look at other sources.

Is coal a renewable or non-renewable resource?

Look at the four types of coal-which one is found in southern

Alberta? Read the evolution of coal

In what ways did coal affect the people and the way they lived?

How did the changes in technology affect the coal industry in Lethbridge?

How did the fact that coal was in this environment influence settlement?

What type of changes to settlement were there because of the coal industry?

Why is Mormons linked to irrigation in southern Alberta? (link to People of Southern Alberta for more information).

There are four types of irrigation.(information in irrigation box)

What type(s) of irrigation was used in early settlement?

Fun Activity* Have students pretend they are early settlers, they need to decide what type of irrigation they will use and what type of crops to use irrigation on. (Bringing in a farmer that uses irrigation to help the students with this activity may make the experience more realistic).

Which type were successful/not successful explain why?

4-H section

Why was 4-H important to the Lethbridge region?

Why do you think they are still important to the southern Alberta region?

Grade 4, 5 Sugar beet industry

What is a sugar beet? What are they used for? What was the key

role the sugar beet industry played in the southern Alberta

region? Who works/worked in the sugar beet industry?

How did (and continues) to affect settlement in southern Alberta?

Fun Activity* Visit the sugar beet factory in Taber for a tour of the plant and speak to some of the workers? Bring a sugar beet into the class to taste.

Grade 10 Modern Agriculture-How it effects modern settlement ?

Why did diversification and technological advances keep agriculture alive in the Alberta region?

List 3 examples of diversification of agriculture in southern Alberta?

Why is it important (if not essential) for farmers to diversify what they produce?

Do you think Riel was treated fairly? Why/why not?

Fun Activity* Contact someone from the Metis Association to come in to speak about how Riel is remembered and how exploration affected the lifestyles of the Metis.

Railway:

Why did Lethbridge adapt it to this region?

What were the results of the rail network in Lethbridge and surrounding area?

What do you think would have happened to this area if settlers had not adapted to the environment?

How does the ability to adapt to a new environment prove to be rewarding for the early settlers?

Why were they so successful and what were the two outcomes from introducing irrigation to southern Alberta?

Does irrigation still play a large role in agriculture today?

How are they formed? How do they affect the environment?

How do you think farmers could adapt to the conditions that are caused by Chinook winds?

How did the environment (landscape) effect how the can effect the building of the bridge?

Fun Activity* Go down to Indian Battle Park to visit the bridge and then go to the Galt Museum to see the model of how the bridge was built and find out who built the bridge and why it was located in that part of town in Lethbridge.