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Place: Outline Maps - These sixty-six black-and-white
printable outline maps (in Acrobat PDF) are royalty-free
for classroom and homework usage. There are maps of every
continent and many counties. At the very top of the page
there is a small link to GeoNet. Follow it for a fun collection
of online geography trivia games.
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Infoplease
Atlas - Infoplease Atlas is everything you'd
want from an atlas, including maps, country profiles, flags
and statistics. Enter via the clickable world map, or browse
the map index. Best clicks are the nineteen geography quizzes,
sixteen interactive crossword puzzles, geography glossary,
world time zone maps, and printable outline maps of the seven
continents. What are the "seven seas?" Click on
over to Geography FAQ to find out. Be sure to bookmark this
site for school reports.
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Merriam-Webster's
Atlas - A straightforward interface makes Merriam-Webster's
Atlas easy to use. Simply select your country from one of
the drop-down menus and you will be rewarded with a simple
page profile with map, flag and a few statistics. Links to
more Merriam-Webster's content (such as dictionary, thesaurus
and Word Game of the Day) are found at the bottom of every
page.
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National
Geographic Map Machine - Check out Xpeditions
Atlas - Maps Made of Printing and Copying and Atlas of the
World Online or play their GeoBee game for more
geography trivia. A few examples of other choices are
Conservation Maps, Recommended Links and Full Maps & Geography
Index. This site provides quality, variety and depth of information.
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- Printable
Maps - Refresh your classroom maps with a great geography
bulletin board, or use these printable maps for student exercises.
Select world, continents, countries, or regions, with basic or
detailed maps, and with or without country borders.
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The
Canadian Atlas Online - The Canadian Atlas Online
brings cartography to life with exciting graphics and animation.
This state-of-the-art interactive atlas allows you to explore
Canada in a way you've never experienced before, and helps
the Society to fulfill their mission "to make Canada
better known." Also available in French.
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CBC
Archives - The CBC Archives website is a free
online resources and limitless classroom tool. It offers over
5,000 audio and video clips from the Archives of the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation. They update the content of the site
at least once a week. Check out the "For Teachers"
section, as you will find educational materials for Grades
6-8, Grades 9-10, and Grades 11-12. These materials were created
to complement many of the topics posted on the Web site, and
include five lessons per topic, divided by grade level. All
educational materials are available free of charge.
- Canadian
Disasters - A project for Grades 6-8 - Using the CBC Radio
and Television Archives Web site and other resources, students
will research a Canadian natural disaster from the following
list: the Saguenay flood, the Halifax Explosion, the Ice Storm
of 1998, the Red River floods, the Ocean Ranger disaster,
and Hurricane Hazel. Students will form small groups and research
one Canadian disaster. Students will keep a research folder
and will use their information to prepare a role-play based
on being a witness to or a participant in the event. Students
will then present their role-plays to the class.
- Introduction
to Media Concentration and Convergence - For all Grades
6-12 - Students will work in pairs to define and give examples
of the following terms: mass media, information superhighway,
media concentration, media convergence, journalistic ethics,
and editorial policy. Students may use the CBC Radio and Television
Archives Web site on the topic Concentration to Convergence:
Media Ownership in Canada, dictionaries, or previous knowledge
to help them define the terms.
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Great Canadian Flag Debate - Explore their educational
material geared towards students in Grades 6 through 12 through
topics such as What's Wrong With the Old Flag?, A Flag of
Canada's Own, Radio Report of the Debates, Canadian Identity
and more.
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Art of the Diarist - Learn about the format of a diary
entry and to recognize its use as a writing tool as students
write a diary entry modeled on the journals of Lucy Maud Montgomery.
Part of "For Teachers" Beyond
Green Gables: The Life of Lucy Maud Montgomery section
- topics also include: Quotations of Lucy Maud Montgomery,
Writing for Children, 100th Anniversary of Anne of Green Gables,
and Montgomery’s Emotional Landscape.
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Historica.ca
is a bilingual educational website developed to promote the
teaching and learning of Canadian history and heritage on
behalf of the Historica Foundation. Included within their
site:
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The
Canadian Encyclopedia Online is a multimedia encyclopedia
"made available through the Historica Foundation,
a not-for-profit organization devoted to Canadian history
education." It has the same content as the print
and CD-ROM versions of this authoritative encyclopedia
but is updated more frequently. It is available in both
English and French.
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- Peace
and Conflict
- Five chapters lead you through the history of Canada at
peace and war.
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The
Prime Ministers of Canada - This site presents brief
biographies of all of Canada's prime ministers - Click on
a photo in the timeline to learn about their lives and hear
opinions about their achievements or use the Search function
to explore the site by key words or names.
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Historica
Minutes
- The Historica Minutes are 60-second "mini-movies"
where exciting and important stories from Canada's past
are presented to Canadians. Check out lesson
plans prepared for specific Minutes. Use these creative
ideas to make history come alive for your students
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Pathfinders
& Passageways (also available in French)
Who discovered and explored the land we know as Canada? Learn
about the men and women who have contributed to the exploration
of this country.
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For
Teachers
- One lesson and one activity have been developed where
students conduct research about prime ministers and make
a presentation about their findings.
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For
Teachers - One lesson and one activity have been developed
where students learn about Canada (past and present) as
they renegotiate Confederation.
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Canadian
Confederation (also available in French)-
A National Library's website which tells the story of how Canada
came to be, from the original four provinces in 1867 to the
present.
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CN
History - A comprehensive look at this company's
growth.
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- Pier
21 - Immigration Stories
- Great place for students to read first hand accounts of various
stories of immigration from 1928-1971.
- Pier 21: Canadian Immigration Game - Canadian Immigration Process is an online game designed to
teach students about the process of immigrating to Canada during
the era that Pier 21 in Halifax, Nova
Scotia welcomed one million newcomers.
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- Elections
Canada On-Line: Resources for Teachers - The links
on this page will help teachers explain Canada's electoral system
to students. Activities include:
- Parliament
of Canada -
Background Resources for Educators- These resources provide accurate
and detailed information about the history, structure, responsibilities
and procedures pertaining to Canada's Parliament and Parliamentarians.
Also available in French.
- About
Parliament -
Some of the teaching resources include:Canadian Symbol at Parliament
(K-3), Setting the Agenda (6-10), People and Parliament (7-12),
Model Parliament (10-12). Also available in French.
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Model Parliament Unit - This resource provides teachers
with the tools and processes to simulate a day in Canada's Parliament
and has been designed to be flexible enough to adapt to a variety
of teaching situations. With these activities, teachers and students
can create a complete and accurate picture of what happens on
a typical day in Parliament.Also available in French.
- Voices
- Getting the Vote
(Historica.ca) - This module is devoted to Canadian citizenship
and democracy. It was developed in partnership with Elections
Canada and features video interviews with young people, who voice
their opinions about the responsibilities and privileges of being
Canadian. The module includes lesson plans for teachers and activities
for students. Also available in French.
- TEACH Magazine.com - An accompaniment
to the TEACH magazine, this Canadian website covers issues and
topics of interest to any K-12 educator. Check out two of their
resources:
- Local
Government in Saskatchewan: An Instructional Resource for Grade
4 - Grade Four, with its focus on Saskatchewan, government
and decision making, is directly targeted in the resource’s
design. This teacher-friendly series of lessons is practical with
activities to inform and challenge students.
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Government in Saskatchewan: An Instructional Resource for Grade
12 - While Social Studies 30 is the target of this
offering, teachers within our division may still see opportunities
for History 30. For example, current challenges of local governance
can be used to illustrate the perennial, national challenges.
Present day local level governance challenges may be emblematic
of Canada’s governance challenges historically.
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Government in Saskatchewan: A Guide for Government Officials
- Learn about local and First Nations government and is a supplement
to the above resources.
- The
Gathering Place - Teaching resource for Grades
5 – 8 Social Studies and History. The lessons and activities
explore: Canadian
culture, identity and symbols; Government, citizenship and democracy;
Canadian stories, heroes and celebrations; and Canada’s connections
and contributions to the world. Download the enterie package or
bu theme and also additional
website materials.
- Cultivate
Your Commitment to Canada - A series of three resource
guides designed for use in schools and community youth groups
across Canada (grades 4-8). These
resources explore the nature of Canadian citizenship, the values
that we share as Canadians and the responsibilities that are inherent
in being an active participant in Canadian society and the global
community.
- Planting
the Seeds - helps youth to understand
that part of being a Canadian citizen is making a commitment
to contribute positively to our community and our country
in our daily thoughts, actions and decisions
- Nourishing
the Growth - looks at the vibrant and diverse garden of Canadian
citizenship, its roots, its strengths and its future.
- Sharing
the Harvest - examines what it means to belong to the
Canadian garden in the context of the larger global environment.
- CIA
World Factbook
- Created for government policy makers and spies, the Central
Intelligence Agency World Factbook is an excellent student resource.
Everything in it (expect the CIA seal) is in the public domain,
so you can copy and distribute the information freely. From Afghanistan
to Zimbabwe, each country profile includes a map and a long page
of statistics. Other unique features are the gallery of flags,
and the full-color continent maps in both JPG and PDF format.
The World Factbook (and its two previous incarnations) has been
published since 1943. It's even older than the CIA itself, which
was established in 1947.
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History
Channel Speeches
- Each day the History Channel features a different speech
from its vast Real Audio archive. To find a particular speech,
just browse by category or search the alphabetic index.
- PBS:
World History - Explore the almost 50 topics, ranging
from Australian history to Wonders of the African World
- BBC:
History - Experience history through animations,
games, movies, virtual tours, or through more than 450 feature
articles by leading writers.
- Vikings: The North Atlantic
Saga -
This site, from the National
Museum of Natural History, is all about the Vikings. The first
thing to do is to try the flash choice. Each stop along the voyage
of the Vikings to North America
has sections about archeology, sagas, history, genetics, and environment.
The enhanced site has audio narratives that play while you visit
each stop.
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National
Geographic: Egypt Pyramids - Laid out in a timeline
from first pyramid to last, this National Geographic site
makes excellent use of multimedia to explore the pyramids
individually, and place them within historical context. When
visiting each pyramid page, place your mouse over the photo
of the pyramid to view a diagram of its internal structure.
Most of the eight featured pyramids also have additional photos
available on the Images button in the upper right-hand corner.
- What Do I Do? -
A colorful, online game about community workers.
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