Geography of Canada 421A

Unit 1: Unit 1: Canadian Connections

Building a personal understanding of Canadian geography as a starting point for inquiry.

• Articulating your understanding of Canadian geography

Unit 2: Unit 2: Methods of Geographic Inquiry

The methods and tools of geographic inquiry: locating and gathering information, and analysing and interpreting geographic data with geotechnologies.

• Locating and gathering geographic information

• Analysing and interpreting geographic data

Unit 3: Unit 3: Physical Connections: Canada's Ecozones

The physical geography of Canada: the forces that shape the landscape, the components of ecozones, regional diversity, and the value of ecozones for understanding interconnectedness.

• Internal forces shaping the landscape
• External forces shaping the landscape

• The components of an ecozone

• Assessing diversity by comparing ecozones

• Ecozones as a tool for interconnectedness

Unit 4: Unit 4: Cultural Connections

Canada's people and how they change: population change, demographic change over time and place (Aboriginal demographics, migration, settlement, and land use), sustainable land use, and urban development.

• Calculating population change

• Factors in current Aboriginal demographics
• Patterns and trends in Canadian migration
• Patterns and trends in rural/urban settlement
• Land-use changes from demographic change

• Assessing land-use sustainability

• Recommending an urban development model

Unit 5: Unit 5: Economic Connections

Canada's economy: its economic sectors and their importance, and a geographic inquiry into one or more sectors.

• Canada's economic sectors
• The importance of each sector

• A geographic inquiry into an economic sector

Unit 6: Unit 6: Canada's Global Connections

Canada in the world: the economic, societal, and environmental connections between Canada and other countries, and Canada's involvement in a global issue.

• Economic and societal connections
• Environmental connections

• Assessing Canada's involvement in a global issue

Unit 7: Unit 7: Future Connections

From inquiry to action: an active citizenship project based on a Canadian geographic inquiry.

• An active citizenship project from geographic inquiry