Grade Ten Academic Canadian and World Studies

Grade Ten Academic Canadian and World Studies

Canadian Contributions to World War One

Name: ______Date: ______

In this activity, you will be experiencing and learning about the life of Canadians in World War One. You will examine some of contributions Canadians made to the war effort overseas. As a final product, I want you to create a PowerPoint presentation of what you learn from this exercise. I will lead you through the steps to creating this PowerPoint and the information you need to look at for the presentation through this handout.

** To begin, please open a blank PowerPoint document as well as Internet Explorer. Title your PowerPoint in relation to the theme of this activity. Add your name as the author. SAVE your document(TITLE: Canadian Contributions to World War One) every few minutes as you work on it!Please save to your folder in our class space on the network so I am able to access your presentation. Open a new slide. **

1. World War I is known as the “war of the trenches” because it was a dirty war fought from trenches built in Europe. What else was WWI known as and why was it given this name? To find the answer, please type “Historica Minutes” into Google search engine. The result “Historica Minutes- Veterans Affairs Canada” should be third down on the list. Please go there. You should enter a page that looks like this:

Once there, please enter Valour Road. This should open a new window. Please watch the video and read the information below it. Keep this window open for later use! Using the answer to the question and the information above, create a slide in your PowerPoint about the ‘names’ of WWI.

2. Please create a new slide. The following slides you create will hold a summary of the war. To find this information, please open a new browser window by opening a new tab. Look at the picture below to show you where to find this feature.

Click here!

When you have opened the new window, please type “warmuseum.ca” into the url box (where the internet address goes). The site you enter should look like this:

On the left hand menu, find Military History and enter here. Scroll down to find Chronology of Canadian Military History. Once you enter here, the site should look like this:

There is a menu bar across the top of years in history- choose 1914-1931. You should now have entered Canada and the First World War. Please work through this and complete a minimum of three slides portraying the information you read (You do not need to read Canada Between the Wars or Canada in World Affairs).

3. Create a new slide in your PowerPoint document. I would like you to title this slide “Individual Contributions.” I would like you to showcase the three men you read about on Valour Road.

4. Once completed, please open another new slide in preparation for new information. Again, you will be continuing with Individual Contributions. Choosing two of the following, Billy Bishop, Georges Vanier, or Sir Arthur Currie, I would like you to conduct research on these individuals and discover their roles in the war. At least two PowerPoint slides should be completed on each person you chose to research. Remember to source the websites you use in a slide at the end of your PowerPoint show!

5. Now that you have learned about some individual contributions to the war, it is time to learn about some of the battles that were fought by Canadians overseas. To begin, you will look at the battle of Vimy Ridge. Please return to the Internet window in which you watched Valour Road. On the right hand side, there is a menu of video clips. Please choose the one titled Vimy Ridge, watch the video, and read the information underneath (Please keep this browser window open for later use). In PowerPoint, I would like you to insert a hyperlink to this page so others who view your PowerPoint can link to the video. To do this, write a caption in your PowerPoint and then highlight it, as below.

Next, right click and find “hyperlink” in the menu. Click here and a new window will open. In here, you can hyperlink to a webpage. Look at the window below to see how to do this. Once you have found the webpage you are to hyperlink, click OK.

Now that this is completed, I would like you to browse the two websites listed below and find more information on the Battle of Vimy Ridge. I would like you to find one more website with information about Vimy Ridge. Once you have read through the websites, please create at least three slides in your PowerPoint relating information about the battle and Canada’s contributions to it. I included a picture at the beginning of this document. I would like you to find it in the two websites I am asking you to look at and incorporate this picture in your PowerPoint show. Remember to include what the picture is depicting.

6. Your next task is to choose either the Battle of Passchendaele or the Battle of Ypres and complete research on the one you choose. Find at least two websites as resources (remember to source them!) and create three slides in your PowerPoint on this battle and how Canadians contributed.

7. Now it’s time for some trivia. Please go to the following website.

It should look like this:

Once here, find the plane that says “Test Your Knowledge” and click on it. A menu will appear. Choose World War One. Although this is a test, you will not be marked on it. Answer the questions as best you can and ask for the results. Once you have the results, information will be given to you about each of the correct answers. Use the information you receive to “vamp-up” the first pages of your PowerPoint presentation with the summary of World War I. Keep the Seriously Cool Stuff browser open as it will be used later.

8. Every Remembrance Day, a poem called “In Flanders Fields” is often read. This poem was written in World War One. Please re-open the Historica Minutes browser and find John McCrae in the menu on the right-hand side. Please watch the video and read the information. Create a new slid in your PowerPoint and write a brief summary of what you saw and read. Locate the poem John McCrae wrote on the Internet and include it in another slide. This slide will be the closing to your PowerPoint, although it is not quite completed yet!

9. Please insert one slide BEFORE the slides on John McCrae. To do this, right click on the slide right before the first John McCrae slide in the menu of slides on the left-hand side (Look at the picture below to locate the menu). Once you have right-clicked a menu will appear. Click on “New Slide” and a slide will be inserted right before your John McCrae slides.

10. Now that you have completed a significant amount of research on WWI and know a lot of its history, it’s time to experience the war! Please go back to the Seriously Cool Stuff window. Find the Games and Activities plane. Click on it and find Over the Top. This is a virtual game where you get to live in the trenches and experience the war. Once you open Over the Top, you should be in a window that looks like this:

Play this interactive experience at least two times, trying different options as you go. See how long you can last in the trenches!Once completed, please return to the inserted PowerPoint slide and write a paragraph or two on the experience of living in the trenches and what it must have been like in real life.

11. Now that you have completed the research component of your PowerPoint, I would like you to write a reflection on what you believe Canada’s contributions to the war effort overseas were (during WWI) and how effective and important these contributions were and why you think this. The reflection should take two PowerPoint slides, with size 20 font.

12. Now that you have completed your PowerPoint, please insert (if you have not already done so) a slide at the end to include the references you used to create the PowerPoint. Please edit your PowerPoint and add any elements you believe would be beneficial to the presentation. Once you are completely finished, print off the show in handout layout. To do this, click on print in the file menu. In the new window that opens, look to the bottom left-hand side. There will be a statement “Print what:” and a white box underneath. Click on the arrow beside the box and change “slides” to “handouts.” An option to the right of this box titled “Handouts” will change from gray font to black. You can now use this to choose how many slides to print to a page. Please print 6 slides to a page. Look at the picture below to help you follow the instructions. Please hand in the printed document with the provided rubric.

Print what:Handout options:

You’ve completed your task! Congratulations!

Review your presentation, as well as others, to continue learning about “the war to end all wars.”