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Student Handout	Activity 5

Drawing Conclusions

Name: ___________________________________    Date: ____________________

Discover the challenges your settlement group faced in early Canada. 
•	Choose a challenge like finding food or transportation or building a home. 
•	Find facts from The Kids’ Site of Canadian Settlement and primary sources that tell something about your challenge. 
•	Then draw a conclusion about the challenge (e.g.: The group ate a lot of different kinds of foods).  

See how many challenges you can complete. If you need more pyramids you can draw them yourself on another sheet of paper.
	Jacques LeCastor

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Settlement Group: ____________________

Challenge: ____________________________

Fact #3

Fact #2

Fact #1

                                                       

  

Conclusion:

Rubric 	Activity 5

Drawing Conclusions

Name(s): ___________________________________    Date: ____________________

Settlement Group: __________________    Number of Challenges Explored: ______ 

Instructions 

Excellent 	Good 	Fair 	Needs Improvement	

	

	

	

	

Fill in the pyramid at the end of line to show your the level of success in this activity.

The challenge(s) chosen was/were the best ones to show what life was like in the settlement group.	

	
The facts chosen to describe the challenge(s) are accurate and tell a lot about the challenge(s).	

	
The conclusion(s) made sums/sum up how the challenge(s) affected the settlement group.	

	
If a group activity: All group members were highly involved and cooperative.	

	

Student Comments

Things Done Well	Things That Need Improvement

	

Teacher’s Comments 
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