SAMPLE: Heritage

Title: From Sea to Shining Sea!

Topic: the Trans Canada Trail

Background: Canadians are often reluctant to acknowledge the riches of our country. The irony of this is magnified when one considers its size, beauty and natural riches. One purpose of the Trans Canada Trail is to encourage people to literally get in touch with our great land.

Questions:

1. Go to: http://www.tctrail.ca/index.php?section_id=4&lang=en Wait for the animation to finish and then look to the right of the map of Canada. How long is the trail?

2. Scroll to the bottom of the page and look at the activity image banner. What modes of transport will it accommodate?

3. Where are the Eastern-most, Western-most, and Northern-most ends of the trail?
To help you, use the map at: http://www.canadatrails.ca/tct/ and the small map at: http://www.tctrail.ca/images/en/trailcan/canadamap.jpg

4. Go to: http://www.tctrail.ca/index.php?section_id=20104&lang=en#TOP Which Trail Pavilion is closest to us?

5. Assume that the trail is essentially East - West and North - South. East and North are positive directions. Find the average velocities for the following trips.

a) A mountain biker travels from Winnipeg to Roblin in three days.

b) A dog sled team takes nine days to get from Whitehorse to Inuvik.

6. Now, find the travel times for the following trips:

a) A hiker moves at 0.2 m/s from Edmundston to Saint John.

b) A cross country skier travels at 1.3 m/s from Ross River to Dawson City.

c) A horse and rider travel at 0.9 m/s from Medicine Hat to Edmonton.

7. At this point, you have enough data to make simple time-position graphs for each trip.

8. Are your t-p graphs realistic?