First Nations Digital Scavenger Hunt

There are many different Aboriginal nations in Canada, but one of the groups that is in our area of the lower mainland is called the Tsleil-Waututh Nation. Before the Europeans arrived, what did the Tsleil-Waututh people do to survive? Who did they trade with and how did they get to the places where they made trades?Tsiel-Waututh-Nation

Click on the link to visit the website and discover the answer!

http://www.twnation.ca/en/About%20TWN/Our%20Journey/Our%20Past.aspx

Age of Exploration Project

Our class’s assignment was to create a brochure and project to be put into a North American Exploration wing in the Smithsonian Museum. My partner Lois and I did our project on Ferdinand Magellan.

Magellan was a great navigator in the early 1500’s. His most renowned voyage was a westward trip around the tip South America towards Asia. His mission was to find a new route to Southeast Asia for Spain since they could not go through the Indian Ocean because of the treaty of Tordesillas. Even though Magellan died when he and his crew got into a local war in the Philippines, they still succeeded in discovering a new passage to Asia for Spain, proved that the world was round, and became the first people to circumnavigate (go around) the world.

This is the informational brochure we made for our explorer:

Ferdinand+Magellan+Brochure (1).

This is a picture of our project; a diary page written by one of the sailors named Antonio Pigafetta who was aboard the voyage and kept journals for the whole trip:20170305_212210

Antonio-Pigafetta-diary-page.pdf