Lesson Links Checks
and Balances in the Canadian Political System
is a unit by Susan
L. Walker at Pitt Meadows Secondary School. It is a project that
requires 20 hours of instructional time. It contains activities
for the regular classroom, for library research,and for Internet
communication across provincial boundaries. American Memory Project: Doing the Decades is a unit that provides an investigative structure for themes in U.S. history, but I've placed the link here because the format can be adapted to Canadian history. This unit uses primary sources, and has students work in groups to create a multimedia project. The site contains unit timelines, project guidelines, printable forms, and more. Heroines.ca:
A Guide to Canadian Women's History contains
links to lessons on Canadian women. Nobody
Likes an Alarm Clock: Canadian Women 1910-1030
is BCTF Lesson Aid from 1996. It is a 6 lesson unit (The Vote,
Fashion or Function, Nellie McClung and History, Written Arguments
on the Role of Women, Political Cartoons on the Suffragists, and
Canadian Women in the 1920s). The site contains handouts as well
as suggestions for evaluation.
Resources BBC Education's Modern World History site uses Shockwave to present interactive animation and exercises. There is a "How to Use" section which actually wasn't all that helpful but did emphasize that you need to download Shockwave before you can use the site properly. I tried out the propaganda and the Nazi Germany sections and found that they were text-based but at a fairly accessible reading level and they were not too long. They offered adequate overviews of these topics with some interesting details. If you do decide to use the propaganda section there are other sites that offer better and more varied examples of British, American, and Canadian propaganda posters. At the end of each topic there are three quizzes on the readings that students can do by going back to readings, and dragging the appropriate word or phrase to the quiz sheet. The other topics covered are: The Treaty of Versailles, Russia in revolution, Fascism in Italy, The Rise of Hitler, The Wall Street Crash, Stalin, The Road to War, Axis Success, People at War, and Allied Victory. The site also offers some useful links to other sites that can be used to supplement BBC site if you go to the Teachers' section. BC
Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs contains the following
pages of interest: Treaty Negotiations, BC First Nations,
and Historical References. Canada
and the First World War
is a site that
comes from the National Archives of Canada. The site is divided
into 2 sections: We were there and Did you know
that... We were there provides information on 6
men and 2 women who participated in WWI in a variety of ways.
There are a variety of primary documents such as personal
diaries, letters, pamphlets, etc. that are used to create
a picture of the individual as well as their and others roles
in the war effort. Did you know that... contains a
variety of information related to the war such as tragedies
that occurred in Canada during that time, how people participated
in the war effort in Canada, new things that came out of that
time such as income tax, and information on how some familiar
Canadians participated in the war. The site also has links
to other government sites on WWI. The use of primary documents
in this site is wonderful and will prove useful to both teachers
and students.
Canadian
Government Information on the Internet
is basically a table of contents to government links.
David
Thompson Socials Online
has a Work and Resources for Social Studies 11. The Work section
probably isn't of that much use because it is a week-by-week
section for students, but the resources section looks strong.
There are links in the following categories: General Resources;
Geography: World Population, Famine and Food Supply Problems
in Africa; Aids in Africa; Canadian History 1900-1914; Yukon
Gold Rush, WW1 1914-1918; Winnipeg General Strike 1919, Roaring
20s; Dirty 30s, Depression; Quiet Revolution, and Canadian
Prime Ministers.
Grade
12 (Canadian) History Internet Resources for High School Teachers
in Saskatchewan comes from the University of
Saskatchewan, and provides a good selection of Canadian History
links. Some categories of links that might be of interest are:
World War I, Evolution of Canadian Nationhood, The Depression,
World War II and the 1950s, The Battle for Universal Medicare,
Forces of Nationalism, Canada and the United States, Human Rights
and Foreign Policy, The Quiet Revolution, Just Society and Aboriginal
People, Gender Equality, and National Unity. The
Great Depression
is an online project from a grade 11 class at Point Grey Mini
School. The project looks at Vancouver in the 1930s, and it
covers the topics of Popular Culture, the Upper Class, the Middle
Class, the Lower Class, and Vancouver's Ethnic Communities.
This is a nice web site which gives a somewhat local (depending
where you live) look at the Great Depression.
Heroines.ca:
A Guide to Canadian Women's History is still under development
but it has a lot of really great information on Canadian women
already as well as links to other resources. The site contains
biographies, picture gallery (including WWI propaganda posters),
links to lessons, and a handy section on new books. The Holocaust: A Learning Site for Students comes from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The site is organized by theme (Nazi Rule, Jews in Germany, the "Final Solution," Nazi Camps, and Rescue and Resistance), , and uses images and audio to provide students with an overview of the holocaust. It is intended for use by middle and secondary students and teachers. This is a user-friendly site that contains unfamiliar vocabulary hot-linked to a glossary with audio. The site does a good job of providing an overview (with timelines), and students should find the site useful. How
Government Works: A Primer is a basic site from the
Canadian government about how the government works. It is divided
into 10 chapters, and the chapters are further subdivided.
Implicit Association Test are tests from UW and Yale that you and your students can take to examine the implicit associations that you make in regards to Race(black-white), Age (young-old), and Gender (gender-science). I took the Race(black-white) test and it was a 5 minute Java-based test that can leave you with something to think about. If you do decide to have students take the tests, I believe that there are links to associated research provided on the site so you can put the tests into context for your students. Memories
of the 1940s
is a project
that was created to allow people from all countries to describe
what their lives were like during the 1940s. It is intended to
be a resource that teachers can plan for and use in their classroom.
It is essentially a listserve that has been set up and there are
a number of "elders" who regularly answer questions
from students about their everyday lives during the time of war.
Contact information can be found at the bottom of the page although
the archive is accessible to anyone.
If you're still looking for propaganda posters then WWII Propaganda Posters is an excellent site to visit. It contains 31 posters (mostly American) that allow you to see the variety of techniques and topics used in propaganda posters of World War II. Remembering Nagasaki is a site created by San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Art’s Exploratorium in observance of the 50th Anniversary of the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The site presents the photographs of Japanese Army photographer Yosuke Yamamata taken in the aftermath of the bombings. The site also contains excerpts from public online forums that were held in 1995. The Atomic Memories page, and the Commentaries page (Telling History, The Decision, War and Peace, and Nuclear Science) contain memories and thoughts of everyday people from around the world. The level of discourse is appropriate to secondary school students, and the personal nature of much of that discourse should appeal to students. Songs
of the First World War
is a page in the
National Library of Canada's Virtual Gramaphone. It contains
Real Audio recordings of songs that are grouped by subjects
such as Patriotic Songs - Canada, Patriotic Songs - United States,
Marches, The Home Front/Women's Role, and more. Statistics
Canada is the official site of Statistics Canada,
and it can provide you and your students with a lot of numbers
about Canada. (You can find graphs and diagrams based on those
numbers at Teaching
& Learning About Canada,
and Canadian Geographic Online
also has some diagrams and maps using StatsCan data).
Teaching
& Learning About Canada
is
a site for teachers and students that provides information and
links on Canadian Geography, History, Politics, Society, Culture,
Wildlife, Time Zones, Graphs, Tables, Maps, etc. There is a map
of Canada that allows you to click on a province to get links
about that province. This is a good page to start looking for
Canadian links especially history links which I know are still
difficult to find on the Internet.
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