Canada's Regions

Notebook


Throughout this unit, you will keep a Notebook. The PDF document downloads are the pages of your Notebook.

  1. Create a folder on your computer or in the cloud titled, “Unit 1 Notebook ”.
  2. Save all of the PDF document downloads to this folder.

Whenever you see this icon, you will be directed to use the “ Unit 1 Notebook ”  folder you created.

Banff National Park via Wikicommons

Instructions


Canada is the second largest country in the world after Russia.
It covers a lot of land and is surrounded by three oceans:  the Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic.  Canada covers six time zones and, on a map, is located above the United States.  Canada and the United States share the longest border of any two countries in the world.

In this activity, you will watch a video which shows the geography of Canada from the west coast to the east coast. You will be taking notes on what you see. 

Canada US Border via Wikicommons

Notebook



Before you watch, read the following instructions:

  1. Click here to download and save the Canada’s Regions chart to your Unit 1 Notebook. 
    1. Open this document from your Unit 1 Notebook folder on your computer. 
    Watch this short video, Canadian Landforms 
    introducing you to the seven (this course has divided them into six) Canadian geographic regions. 
    • Cordillera or Mountain West
    • Interior Plains
    • Arctic 
    • Canadian Shield
    • Hudson Bay and Great Lakes (St. Lawrence) Lowlands
    • Atlantic (Appalachian Highlands) region

    1. As you watch, take notes. You may need to watch this video several times. At the beginning of each section of the video is a map of Canada, with the region highlighted in white to show which region is shown next.
    2. As you watch, write the landforms (mountains, oceans, lakes, hills, plains, rocky shores, beaches, valleys, etc.) you see in the various regions on the chart.
    3. Identify some landforms that appear in more than one region. 

     Skill Builder

    Sometimes there are additional resources at Learn Alberta. 
    Click here to learn how to access LearnAlberta.