Online Resources
Edugains- building capacity to improve teaching and learning.
(Excellent Differentiated Instruction Videos)
http://www.edugains.ca/newsite/index.html
Ontario Educational Resource Bank (OERB) - is designed to be a "one stop shop" for teaching resources connected to the Ontario Curriculum. See your teacher librarian for the password.
The Ontario Curriculum Exemplars Grades 7 and 8
Aboriginal Toolkit
The Teacher's Toolkit is a new collection of electronic resources from the Ministry of Education to help elementary and secondary teachers bring Aboriginal perspectives into their classrooms.
Geography
http://www.oagee.org/curriculum/curriculum-downloads
Stats Canada lessons for grade 7/8 and social studies 1-6
People and Places in the World. World Geography. 7. GRADE. CLUSTER ... People and Places in the World.
Underground Railroad Parks Canada
Look for Geography Lessons Stats Canada
The Atlas of Canada - Lesson Plans by Province / Territory and Specific Grade Level "This collection of 39 lesson plans, for junior, middle and senior levels, have been written to use The Atlas of Canada’s freely available online maps and resources."
The Canadian Council for Geographic Education (CCGE)
"The Canadian Council for Geographic Education (CCGE)
is a joint initiative of The Royal Canadian Geographical Society
and the National Geographic Society of Washington, D.C. established in 1993."
History
One of the exciting aspects of the Historical Atlas of Canada Online Learning Project is as a resource for students and teachers to enhance the teaching and learning of Canadian Social Studies, Geography, and History. The Online Learning Project will allow teachers and their students to critically discover the patterns and relationships within the Canadian landscape and the issues inherent in the evolution of Canada as a nation and as a society
Variety of history lessons and resources
Grade 7 History
"British North America Conflict and Change"
Learning resources – History: Lessons
history lessons using data
Browse Lesson Plans
Search intermediate lessons at Historica
Canadian History Lesson Plans - Elementary School History Canada
"Canadian History Lesson Plans K-8"
Canada's History - Education
sample lessons
MysteryQuests - Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History
Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History
"We need your help!
A team of historians have been trying to solve some historical "cold cases" -- old crimes in which the guilty ones walked, and even more insidious crimes where a whole village may have been complicit. There are other mysteries too, about unusual cases from the Viking age to the Klondike Gold Rush."
Historica Minutes
"The acclaimed Historica Minutes are one-minute movies that portray exciting and important stories from Canada's past.
These brief but inspiring history highlights are useful as teaching aids — the Historica Minutes are screened in many classrooms across Canada."
Try to borrow the video from another school library.
Ontario Heritage Fairs
Excellent culminating task
EvidenceWeb Educational Resources
In this unit of seven lessons of various lengths, students will investigate the reasons for and against Confederation and the reaction of people, primarily politicians, in the colonies/provinces prior to Confederation. Students will obtain most of their information from primary-source documents available on the "EvidenceWeb" portion of the Learning Centre website, created by Library and Archives Canada. As a culminating activity, students will research, create, and present their work in newspaper format.
(click browse themes)
The story of the Canadian Constitution (text and some images)
The story of the Canadian Constitution is far more than the history of the Constitution Act, 1867, which was once called the British North America Act, or even the Canada Act, 1982 and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom.
Library Archives on the Constitution includes text, images and maps)
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/confederation/index-e.html
Welcome to the Library and Archives Canada Canadian Confederation website, which tells the story of how Canada came to be, from the original four provinces in 1867 to the present.
Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
http://www.biographi.ca/index-e.html
explore the history of Canada's inhabitants and their culture, thanks to the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online.
Glenbow Museum has recently begun to digitize its art and artifact collections. (focus on Alberta)http://www.glenbow.org/collections/search/
Canadiana Digitization, Preservation , Access
http://www1.canadiana.org/en/home
Images and primary sources
The Canadiana Discovery Portal is your best single source for Canadian documentary heritage. It is a free service that enables users to search across the valuable and diverse digital collections of Canada’s libraries, museums and archives.
Immigrant Voices
http://www.canadianhistory.ca/iv/main.html
Chinook Multimedia is pleased to make this bilingual historical overview of immigration to Canada available at no charge to all Canadians.
Images of Canada West
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/canadian-west/052901_e.html
This exhibition explores several aspects of European arrival and settlement in the Canadian West, and provides a glimpse of those people who helped forge the new society and bring the West into Confederation.
Canadian Immigrant Experience
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/immigrants/index-e.html
Canadian Pacific RailWelcome to Library and Archives Canada's (LAC) new online exhibition Moving Here, Staying Here. The Canadian Immigrant Experience.way
Canadian Pacific Railway
http://www8.cpr.ca/cms/English/General+Public/Heritage/default.htm
Canadian Pacific Railway was incorporated on February 16, 1881. Less than five years later a ribbon of steel united Canada when the line to the Pacific coast was completed with the driving of the 'Last Spike' at Craigellachie, British Columbia, on November 7, 1885.
