ACTIVITIES USING CANADA YEARBOOK 1997

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This exercise has a dual purpose:

1. to work with an activity adapted from the Canada Yearbook 1997 Teachers’ Kit (#5: "Canada Yearbook 1997 on CD-ROM Scavenger Hunt: A CD-Rom") and
2. to explore the search function of the program.

 
1. With Canada Yearbook 1997 (CYB) operating, click on the Table of Contents and the Outline icons. Both windows will appear on screen.
   
   
2. On your copy of the "CD-Rom Collector’s Sheet" in the Search Word column write in a six or seven letter word you might find on a Map of Canada. [To expedite this short exercise, your searches will use these letters to find information for each of the categories listed in the Search No. and Category column. For this exercise today try the word "Toronto".]
   
   
3. The CYB has four main categories in The Library window: The Environment, The People, The Economy and The Nation. Place your cursor (or arrow / pointing device) over The Population in The People category. Now click on SEARCH in the top left corner of the screen and click again on Find.
   
   
4. Now click on the down arrow immediately beside Word Wheel and click on the first letter in your "Search Word". If your word in the Search Word column were "Toronto," for example, you would click on "T" and then scroll down (i.e. click on the down arrow to the middle right of the Word Wheel) until you come across a word that relates to population.

If you were to chose "teachers" and then click on the SEARCH button, you would get a listing, in a window entitled Full text search hits, of all articles in which the word "teachers" appears. However, only one article exists under the sub-heading The Population ("From Sod to Person #1").



5. Complete as many other letters as possible in the remaining time for this station.

*** 12-15 minutes

*** If there are more than 3 persons in a group you may want to split up and do Q’s 1 & 2 in subgroups.

Contents of the Year Book:

 
1. Look at the "Table of Contents" and indicate four sections which might be useful to you or one of your colleagues this year.

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1. Locate one section of the book that you identified above and peruse it. How useful to you is it? Could you use this in a consultation session with another teacher?

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2. How useful are the Lesson Plans in the CYB Teacher’s Kit? Look at one lesson that you might use in your school and give your comments.

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