SOUTH HURON - Grade 7-8 students at South Huron DHS went time travelling recently.
Teacher Julie Knoblauch-Heimrich took her classes back to the War of 1812 using an 11 metre x 8 metre floor map, making SHDHS students the first class in the province to use the 1812 map.
The map allowed students to walk the paths of Laura Secord, Tecumseh, and Sir Isaac Brock in a variety of interactive lessons provided by Canadian Geographic Education.
The giant floor map featured historic forts and town, battle sites and first Nations villages that served as the stage for the War of 1812. Along with the map were numerous activities, educational resources and learning tools meant for an interactive experience for students of all ages.
The map was provided by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, which aims to build a broader knowledge and deeper appreciation of Canada’s history and geography. Currently there are five sets of Giant Floor Maps and activity kits traveling across Canada that can be book for a two-week period.
For more information on the Giant Floor Map, contact Ellen Curtis, Educational Programs Manager at 613-745-4629 ext. 124.
One Comment on "School class follows massive map to learn about War of 1812"
If Julie – or any other teacher – would like to trace out the travels of our own Dr. William “TIGER” Dunlop who was a medical mate and army surgeon in the War of 1812, I can make arrangements to get them a book which inlcudes his opwn account of the war. He wrote about it in a serial of articles called “Recollections of the American War”.
Following his 1813 arrival in Quebec, he made his way along the St. Lawrence to Lake Ontario and York, thence by frigate to Burlington Bay and the Niagara peninsula where he was present during major battles, attending to the wounded and dying by setting up field hospitals. It is said that, had Queen Victoria been on the throne, he would have been awarded the Victoria Cross for his amazing and daring rescues in one battle alone.
At the siege of Fort Erie, he traded places with a front-line soldier and came close to injury and death as he fought along with his fellows in the Regiment. He concluded his time here by helping to open the road to Penetanguishine for the new naval establishment there – to replace the one at Nottawasaga (Wasaga Beach) where the HMS NANCY had been lost.