St. Lawrence Seaway Opens

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway. In a ceremony presided over by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Queen Elizabeth II, the St. Lawrence Seaway is officially opened, creating a navigational channel from the Atlantic Ocean to all the Great Lakes.

The seaway, made up of a system of canals, locks, and dredged waterways, extends a distance of nearly 2,500 miles, from the Atlantic Ocean through the Gulf of St. Lawrence to Duluth, Minnesota, on Lake Superior.

Work on the massive project was initiated by a joint U.S.-Canadian commission in 1954, and five years later, in April 1959, the icebreaker D'Iberville began the first transit of the St. Lawrence Seaway. Since its official opening, more than two billion tons of cargo, with an estimated worth of more than $300 billion, have moved along its canals and channels.

ProQuest has created a BookCart learning activity to help your students learn more about the "St. Lawrence Seaway." This and all ProQuest Model BookCarts are custom and complete one-stop inquiry-based learning activities for your students.

Traditional "research time" often includes too much repetitive and non-productive searching and then evaluating of the relevancy of search results. Does this additional time really contribute to student achievement? BookCarts reduce the valuable classroom time lost in searching and evaluating, and then reinvest the time on the essentials of critical thinking, problem solving, and presentation of conclusions. BookCarts are easily updated for topics/issues that may be repeatedly assigned each school year.

Each Cart provides students with (a) essential questions that help them develop 21st Century critical thinking skills http://fno.org/feb07/topic.html; (b) directions that guide them in knowing what to do; (c) connections to relevant print resource call numbers; (d) an optional quiz; (e) a 21st Century information literacy standard; and (f) ProQuest models they can use for written reports and presentations. You won't find this unique combination of inquiry-based learning activity support in one place in any other K-12 resource.

A complete listing of more than 800 ProQuest Carts (including more than 50 Canadian-focused Carts) by curriculum area is available for you to copy this or any other Carts that support your department's curriculum inquiry-based learning activities needs. Each Title is hyperlinked and will provide instructions for copying when clicked.

• Open the eLibrary Canada Teacher Edition.
• Click BookCart Admin tab at the top.
• Click the ProQuest Carts tab (800 ProQuest models).
• Type "St. Lawrence Seaway" in the Search box.
• Click the COPY icon in the Actions column to the right of this title.
• Click Return to My Local Carts tab to end the copying process.

Edit your new Cart to customize it for your students:

• Click the new BookCart Title--it has "Copy of" as its prefix.
• Delete "Copy of" in the Title.
• Type your name in the AUTHOR boxes.
• Type your email address in the EMAIL box.
• Optional: Edit the essential questions and any other text in the DESCRIPTIONS box.
• Scroll down and click SAVE button at bottom > Return to My Local Carts.
• Your edited Cart is ready for students to use when they click the BookCart tab in eLibrary.

Assign students to create a written report of at least 150 words or a PowerPoint presentation of at least two minutes and seven slides. Cite at least three resources and address the following essential questions for critical thinking:

• Why did Canada and the U.S. cooperate on building the Seaway?
• What are three of the specific advantages of the Seaway for Canada?
• What are four of the major problems of using and maintaining the Seaway today?
• How are Canada and the U.S. collaborating to keep the Seaway viable?

Use our custom ProQuest models for written and PowerPoint-style reports.

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