These activities and resources teach students about the contributions of Black settlers to the development of Québec and
Canada.
How can you ensure that time at a historic site is useful, academic and fun? The trick is to harness students’ natural creativity and desire to be outlandish. This approach has worked for the author and his colleagues in many settings for over a d...
Once aware of the election, we start preparing immediately. This could take anywhere from
four to eight weeks due to the amount of organizing, planning and arranging involved.
Students conduct their own oral histories by interviewing their family, recording their responses, and compiling their research into a book.
Using the story of Harriet Tubman, students will learn about slavery, the Underground Railroad, and the role of conflict, struggle and human agency in history.
Students will conduct an investigation into one side of their family to determine how events in Canadian history and those in the world have defined the decisions one’s family had to make, and as a result, its sense of Canadian identity and citize...
The study of local houses in the community provides essential insight into local history.
Culture can tell us so much about the people and events of history. In this lesson plan, students look at novels, art and music to understand how Canadians shaped, and were shaped by, culture during wartime.
In this lesson plan, students will explore the nature of citizenship and what it means to them.
This exercise recreates the historical process that helped lead the world into the Great War.
Students are presented with some of the dilemmas that
faced the major powers in 1914 and are tasked with making choices as leaders of these countries.
A step-by-step guide on how to organize a school forum — a great way for students to debate and discuss topics that affect their community and country.
Charles Hou explored the vast history of British Columbia with his students.
Get your students excited about Democracy in the classroom.
Students create a Letterman-like Top 10 list of important historical figures, while being made aware of different types of biases. This activity is a great ice-breaker for the beginning of a course.
Students explore the relationship between symbols and identity, while making a heritage quilt.
In “Walking on the Lands of Our Ancestors,” students are immersed in the history of First Nations people from the area. Students learn how First Nations people lived in the past and the issues they face in the present day.
A simulation can only hope to create a tiny part of what a battle experience may have been like, however, a complex role-play of this sort is concrete and hands-on.
With pressure mounting on Robert Borden to supply Britain with new recruits, the wartime elections act becomes a reality. Will your students will take up the fight?