SURVIVAL

Background Information
Lesson Plans
Online Activities
Multimedia Items
Related WWW Links

Background Information
Life on the prairies was hard. There are endless stories of survival and determination that can be used woven into any study of the survival theme.

• Learn about the extreme hardships that hit Saskatchewan during the Spanish Flu Epidemic of 1918.
• Surviving a Dust Storm and Additional Resources on Erosion - excerpts from a mother's first hand account of what it was like to be on the prairie's alone when the violent storm hits.
• The Regina Cyclone, June 1912
• A complete listing of articles is available in Background Information.

Lesson Plans

• Nutana Pioneer Cemetery Tour - Looking Back (Middle Years) (WORD / PDF): A lesson based on the movie History Carved in Stone (32MB-12 min.)that looks at the graves in the Nutana Cemetery. This presentation discusses the hardships that the pioneers faced and illustrates how difficult and short their lives often were. This lesson plan is a guide for a tour of the cemetery.
  Grade 7 ELA: Pushed to the Limit: Surviving Life's Challenges
  Suggestion Unit Topics and Themes

Online Activities

• Immigration: A "Choose Your Own" Adventure - Can you survive? As you move across Canada to make home on the prairies, see if any of your decisions will prove catastrophic! Can you avoid death by starvation, fire, or brutally cold weather?

Multimedia Items (Photo Galleries, Interviews, Movies)

History Carved in Stone (32MB-12 min.): A fully automated and narrated (.exe file) presentation that looks at the graves in the Nutana Cemetery. This presentation discusses the hardships that the pioneers faced and illustrates how difficult and short their lives often were. Content and images provided by Meewasin Valley Centre. To exit at any time, hit ESC.

• Browse our photo galleries for specific galleries that may have images of situations that pioneers had to survive (the Regina Cyclone, the Dirty Thirties, and so forth).
• Bea Voegeli - Clip 1 discusses her husband's immigration and the Spanish Flu.
  Listen to it!
• Bea Voegeli - Clip 2 discusses the hardships after losing her husband and having to raise 7 children on her own.
  Listen to it!
• Please check our photo galleries for images on this theme.

Related Links

• Survival Theme - Examine Saskatchewan Heroes (Virtual Saskatchewan - Saskatchewan's Own 1, Saskatchewan's Own 2, and Saskatchewan's Own 3) and use/adapt activities from Hero Central.
• Remembering Our Heroes: Saskatchewan First Nations Veterans