Grade 8 - Creating Canada, 1850-1890 - Ontario History Bundle

This Lesson/Workbook bundle was created to provide everything you need to teach the Grade 8 - A. Creating Canada, 1850-1890 Unit in the Ontario Social Studies Curriculum - Newly Updated 2025.

With your purchase, you will receive lesson slides that follow the 3-Part lesson format, engaging your students from start to finish. You will also receive the workbook, which contains fun activities and worksheets for your students to demonstrate their understanding.

Workbook Details:
This resource covers all the expectations in the Grade 8, Ontario History Curriculum, Creating Canada 1850-1890 unit.

There are 223 activity sheets that cover the expectations in the history curriculum. This comprehensive unit contains readings, maps, hands-on activities, true/false, diagrams, exit cards, reflections, word searches, role plays, and more. We’ve presented the material in a variety of text forms, including reports, news articles, blog posts, and stories. There is also a unit test and answer pages for all activities!

With the update in 2025, we have added hands-on activities, exit cards, rubrics and more to this already best-selling resource.

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• What is Confederation?
• John A. Macdonald, George-Étienne Cartier, and George Brown
• Political Deadlock
• Representation by Population
• Fenian Raids
• Thomas D’Arcy McGee Assassination
• Railway – Trade
• Chinese Railroad Workers
• Manifest Destiny
• Double Shuffle
• The Great Coalition
• Fact or Fiction: Confederation Myths
• Land Ownership in PEI
• Maritime Colonies - Joining Confederation
• The British North America Act
• Métis Indigenous Group – Culture
• The Manitoba Act
• Métis Leader: Louis Riel
• Red River Rebellion – Métis
• The Métis Scrip System
• Settler Life in Canada
• North-West Mounted Police
• Snowman – Canada’s Expansion
• Bilingualism in Canada – French and English
• First Nations and Confederation
• Interview: The Numbered Treaties
• Newspaper Article: The Indian Act
• Treaties in Ontario
• Potlatch Ceremony
• Residential Schools
• Story: The Boy in Two Photographs
• Residential Schools – Brave Survivors
• Research – Residential Schools
• The B.C. Qualification of Voters Act
• Social Media Post – Women’s Equality in 19th-Century
• Debate: Confederation – Benefit or Burden?
• Role-Play: Voices of Early Canada
• American Civil War
• Memory Game – Influential Canadians (1850–1890)
• Blog Post: Urban Centres in Canada
• Urban and Rural Communities in the West
• BC – Fraser and Cariboo Gold Rushes
• Gold Rush – Conflicts – Chilcotin War
• Infographic Assignment – B.C. Gold Rush
• Who Has The Word? – Creating Canada
• Unit Test
• Answer Pages For All Activities

Google Lesson Slides

Grade 8 - A. Creating Canada, 1850-1890 Unit - Google Lesson Slides - Ontario History. This resource is packed with all the lessons you need to teach Creating Canada, 1850-1890 Unit, Grade 8, Ontario Social Studies Curriculum.

We have structured these lessons to follow the popular 3-Part Lesson format. By using these lessons, you will be provided with learning goals, discussion questions, relevant YouTube videos, interactive slides, exit cards, and more. Check out the variety of activities you'll receive below.

Part 1: Minds On!
- Learning Goals
- Discussion Questions

- Polls/Surveys

- Picture Prompts

- Jokes and Riddles

- Relevant Quotes

Part 2: Action!
- Interactive Activities

- Drag and Drop

- Fill in the Blanks

- Matching

- Sorting

- Polls/Surveys and Graphing

- Embedded YouTube Videos

Part 3: Consolidation

- Exit Cards

- 3-2-1 Reflections

- One Word Reflections

- Act It Out!

- Quick Draw

- One Sentence Summary

After purchasing this resource, you will be able to download a copy of this file to your Google Drive. From there, you can complete these lessons with your class, and/or assign these slides in Google Classroom.