Augments Alberta Social Studies Curriculums Grades 4 and 5

Students, staff and parents will have fun hearing the wind, smelling the sage and feeling the trail-dust down the trails of Alberta's Old West.

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• Code of the West - behaviour

• decimation of Buffalo - impact

• acquiring Rupert's Land - new era

• NorthWest Mounted Police -the law

• Jerry Potts - NWMP guide

• coming of cattle - new era

• coming of cowboys - new era

• cattle drives - mind-boggling

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• roundups - before the fencesJ

• John Ware - 1st black cowboy in AB

• First Nations Chiefs - great men

• The Last Best West' - immigration plan

• coming of homesteaders - new era

• formation of settlements - new era

• Calgary Stampede - celebrate an era

• western traditions today - preserving

Topics touched on . . .