Taking a Step Back (Before Choosing a Topic)

In this lesson students learn to identify and evaluate historical significance by designing a commemorative coin that features a person, place, thing, or event in Canadian history.

In this lesson students learn to locate primary sources online to create a class database for future historical inquiry projects.

Canada’s National History Society is proud to introduce #OurStoriesOurVoices, a new national youth program that gives students aged 9 to 18 the opportunity to explore a story that is important in their community’s past and to share the people, places, events, and objects that illuminate our diverse past.