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Welcome to The Canadian Atlas Online (CAOL) Learning Centre. With the terrific learning resources available here, you can make geography and history come alive in your classroom like never before! Our lesson plans and classroom activities are available to download in several formats to help both teachers and students engage more fully with this site’s content. Teacher-members of the Canadian Council for Geographic Education have prepared these free resources that meet curriculum learning objectives based on the topics featured throughout the CAOL.

You may select the resources by province, grade level, and topic. Alternatively, you can simply view all available lesson plans.

To view all available lesson plans click here.

Atlas themes	Teaching level	Province/Territory
Arctic and Taiga Atlantic Region Boreal Shield Building Canada Calgary Stampede, The Canada 2050 Canada and Overseas Development Canada from Space Canadian landforms Central Plains Climate change Climate prosperity Connecting Canada Early survival Early trade networks Evolving cities Expore the Maps Extremes of weather Farming First Peoples Fishery Forestry Forged in war Fueling Canada Fur trade Future of forestry Geography of coins International polar year Mining Mixedwood Plains Navy Centennial Oil and Gas Pacific and Mountains Performing arts presentation Rivers of Canada Settling Canada Space age farming St Lawrence Seaway The North from Space The War of 1812 This water-rich land Tracking rail Watershed awareness Watersheds Where we live Who we are Wind energy	Elementary (1-5) Middle (6-8) Secondary (9-12)	Alberta Nunavut British Columbia Ontario Manitoba Prince Edward Island New Brunswick Québec Newfoundland & Labrador Saskatchewan Northwest Territories Yukon Nova Scotia

Where We Live This lesson will explore Canada’s population distribution in terms of rural and urban regions. Students will compare and contrast two Canadian cities in terms of quality of life.


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