Leading the Way
Who discovered and explored the land we now call Canada? Was it the Native people who were living here or the Europeans who came over the ocean in search of adventure and riches?
The National Library of Canada's Passageways: True Tales of Adventure for Young Explorers website gives the answers to these questions. The activity below will show you how to get around on the website and will allow you to compare the accomplishments of two explorers.
Follow the instructions and answer questions 1 to 10 in your books or on a piece of paper. Remember to write full and proper sentences!
A. Write the names of your two explorers here:
_________________________ vs. ___________________________
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Go to the "Explorers Index" page:
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Find the name of your explorer and click.
B. For each question, find the answer for the first explorer and make a note on a piece of paper. Then find the second explorer and find the answer to the same question. Write your final answers in your book.
Another way to do this would be to find the answers to all the questions for one explorer, and then do the other explorer.
C. What is the difference between:
| 1. What the explorers hoped to find? (2 marks) |
| 2. The direction that the explorers travelled in (north through the Arctic, along the East Coast, over land to the Pacific Ocean)? (2 marks) |
| 3. The places they explored (the St. Lawrence, the North, the North-West, etc.)? (2 marks) |
| 4. The dangers they faced? (4) |
| 5. The way they worked with Native peoples? (4) |
| 6. The transportation they used? (2) |
| 7. The way they died? (2) |
D. Now answer these questions. You must give reasons for your answers to get full marks!
| 8. Which one was a better explorer? Why? (3) |
| 9. Which one had the most effect on the thinking of his time and the way other explorers worked? (3) |
| 10. Which one did you like the most? Why? (3) |
Total Marks: /27
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