Timeline of Early Canadian History

A helpful way for students to organize their facts about Canadian History is in a timeline. This example highlights a few of the important dates from the arrival of humans in North America up until about 1783, when the Treaty of Paris is signed. In this activity, students will create a timeline of 5-10 events in Canadian history.

For an alternative to the timeline layout, have students create a timeline poster to incorporate into a presentation or gallery walk. You can add more than one template to this assignment to give students lots of options and adjust the instructions accordingly.

Due Date:

Objective: Create a timeline in chronological order with accurate dates, descriptions. and illustrations for 5-10 important events relating to Canadian history.

Student Instructions:

1. Click “Start Assignment”.
2. Choose 5-10 important events related to Canadian history.
3. In the timeline template, click on “Timeline Dates”, and write the dates of each milestone in the date cells in chronological order. Then click “update timeline”.
4. For each cell, list a title and write a 1-3 sentence description for each event.
5. Create an illustration that represents each event using appropriate scenes, characters, and items.

Requirements: 5-10 events listed with correct dates, 1-3 sentence description and appropriate illustration.