Social Studies Resources

September 5, 2016

General Resources for Social Studies

Facing History
– ” Our mission is to engage students of diverse backgrounds in an examination of racism, prejudice, and antisemitism in order to promote the development of a more humane and informed citizenry”
Historical Thinking Project directed byPeter Seixas
Stanford History Education Group
Population Pyramid

Web Sites about, by and for Aboriginal Peoples – links compiled by SD71

Aboriginal Resources compiled by SD34 – created by FNESC and FNSA

Voices in Action – “offers primary and secondary resources, short original video documentaries (first person accounts of historical events) and thought provoking lessons on topics such as residential schools, The Komagata Maru, Japanese internment camps, Rwanda, The Holocaust and much much more.”

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BC First Nations History

First Nations Education Steering Committee
Indigenous Education K-12: Curriculum Resources – UBC Library
BC First Nations Historical Timeline – Aboriginal Connection

BC History

British Columbia – Canadian Encyclopedia
City of Vancouver Archives
Bamboo Shoots: Chinese Canadian Leagues in BC
– educational resource for teachers of Grades 5 and 10
– this resource offers a rich gallery of historical photographs, and a wealth of archival documents and personal stories that accompany five lessons at each grade level

Early History of BC – Canada: A Country by Consent
Encyclopedia BC
Memory BC
Royal BC Museum
viHistory – census, population, maps and links to other related topics

The Fur Trade and the North-West

Effects of the Fur Trade
Fur Trade – Canada’s First Peoples
Fur Trade – Canadian Encyclopedia
The Fur Trade in Canada and the North West Company – McGill Library
North West Company – Canadian Encyclopedia

From BNA to Canada, Colony to Country

Constitution Act, 1867 – Canadian Encyclopedia
BNA Act 1867 – A Country by Consent

Canada’s Government System

Confederation and Nation-Building

Canadian Geography

Immigration and Settlement During the 1800s

 

Napoleon and Napoleonic Europe

New France and the French-British Conflict in N.A.

Political Revolutions: America, France, and Russia

The Fur Trade and the North-West

Agricultural Revolutions

The Industrial Revolution

World War I – free sourcedocs from TC2 (internment camps)

The Canadian Letters & Image Project
– online archive of the Canadian war experience, from any war, as told through the letters and images of Canadians themselves