Marymount Academy Grade 10 Civics

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Famous Canadian Women Project

Your Task

Working in groups of 2 or 3, you will identify women who have had a positive impact in Canadian society through their accomplishments. You will research aspects of their personal and public lives, and using the Internet and other sources to obtain various information, each person in the group  will create a Web page on a famous Canadian Woman. Groups may select a specific person or theme. For example, your group may choose to select:

• Famous Canadian women in a certain vocation (scientists, artists, politicians, activists, etc.).
• A particular individual or group of individuals.
• An historical figure or group.
• A local, regional or provincial group or individual.

Planning Your Project

Using the links and search engine below as a starting point, you will explore various resources and select a person or theme for your project that perhaps has special meaning to your group. You will collect images, textual information and links to other sites to provide the content for your mini-Website. Your own observations and reflections should be included in the content.

Your class Website project should contain the following:

• A main title Web page with links to all of the other pages that each student will create.
• Various links to other Web sites for further information on your person or theme.
• Various images or other multimedia elements that you have gathered or created yourself (scanned images, drawings, etc.).
• Career information in the field or area of expertise for each woman on the appropriate Web pages.
• Comments on your group's observations and feelings about the research you have compiled. Does this individual or group inspire you? Why?




Figure 1. - The main page should 'link-out' to
all of the other pages that each student will create.

You will be instructed on how to use Netscape Composer to create your project. Additional online help for using this program can be found here.

Completing the Project

You will sort and analyze the information you find by taking notes, recording URL's (for links) and saving and/or creating images. It is highly recommended that you create as much original content as possible for the content. One student will be appointed the role of project manager, and will ensure that the class Web site has continuity and a standardized look and feel.

Presentation and Assessment

Your group will present their finished work to the rest of the class for peer assessment, and each individual will reflect on the work they did for self assessment.

Your Resources for this project: