Best Practices and Resources For Teaching About Canada

Best Practices and Resources For Teaching About Canada
Tina Storer, Education & Curriculum Specialist Center for Canadian-American Studies Western Washington University STUDY CANADA Summer Institute for K-12 Educators A Capital View of Canada: Nations within a Nation Ottawa, ON – July 6, 2012 I

The Best Practice is to Teach Canada
1. It is important to teach Canada Shared geography and borders Strong historical connections Shared cultural roots and multicultural population Stewardship of N. America (environment / energy / defense) Canada and the USA represent the world’s largest trade relationship Multi-layered political relationship and impacts Global competency and citizenship Best comparative lens regarding all core social studies topics 2. Canada sometimes falls in an curriculum “gap” that educators aren’t aware of.

The Best Practice is to Teach Canada
Key Question: So why aren’t there more resources for teaching Canada? Canada only appears intermittently in social studies standards and, sometimes, is not addressed at all in K-12 classrooms.* Standards (esp. California and Texas) drive the textbook industry and, without standards that specifically mention Canada, Canada is often minimized and/or left out of textbooks even in key areas like economics. NCSS continues to support increased inclusion of Canada in curricula. * To learn more, see SUNY Plattsburgh Study: The Country Left Behind by Dr. Joseph-André Senécal, Professor Emeritus, University of Vermont, on homepage of

Resources for Teaching Canada
Overview: National Resource Centers Government Publications Teacher Loan-Kits and Media Libraries Recommended Print Publications Recommended Multimedia Materials (Videos, CD-ROMs, CDs) Recommended Internet Websites This is an outline of what will be presented I

The US DOE Title VI Program
The launching of Sputnik I in 1957 led to the federal government’s most significant participation in modern foreign language and area studies research and training in history—The National Defense Education Act (NDEA) of 1958. The federal Office of Education began administering the National Resource Centers (NRC) Program under Title VI of the NDEA, and the U.S.D.O.E. continues to administer it under the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended. The centers supported under the NRC Program conduct a broad range of activities that include instruction, outreach, scholarly research, maintenance of library resources, and teacher training. Collectively, these activities represent a programmatic effort that focuses on particular regions of the world and the relevant issues connected to those regions; and, they constitute a national capacity in modern foreign languages and area and international studies. From:

National Resource Centers on Canada
U.S. Department of Education Title VI Grants support two National Resource Centers on Canada in the US: 1) Pacific Northwest NRC (U Washington and WWU) 2) Northeast NRC (U Maine and SUNY Plattsburgh) Additional outreach and program grant support is awarded annually by the Embassy of Canada (Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, Education Section).

Both NRCs on Canada offer: Classroom Resources Print Publications Teachable Online Information Online Curricula Multimedia Classroom Tools Instruction for Professional Development

...and partner with many organizations to serve K-12 educators: Embassy & Consulates of Canada in the US Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, UW Individual Teachers/Teacher-Librarians K-12 STUDY CANADA Teacher-Associates National Education Groups (eg: NCSS, NCHE, NCGE) State Councils of the above groups State and District-Level Social Studies Curriculum Directors/Coordinators Educational Collaboratives and Individual Schools Québec Government Offices in the US (and in Canada) State Government Offices (and Provincial Government Offices in Canada) US and State Departments of Education Canada-America Society (Seattle, WA) International Studies Schools Association

Pacific Northwest NRC on Canada
Western Washington University Center for Canadian-American Studies University of Washington Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies Canadian Studies Center Website: Contacts: (Tina Storer) (Nadine Fabbi)

K-12 STUDY CANADA Resources
Learning portal website at Canada Northern Neighbor (2nd Edition) O Canada! Newspapers in Education Supplement e-Resource Notices (Sept.-June) Loan-Kits (Beginning Fall 2011, this outreach may be unavailable) Student Novel Collection (1) Resource Valise (2)

Eastern NRC on Canada University of Maine
Canadian Studies Center State University of New York College at Plattsburgh Center for the Study of Canada and Institute on Québec Studies Websites: Contacts: (Betsy Arntzen) (Amy Sotherden)

Eastern NRC Resources “Canada Valise” Loan-Kit O Canada textbook
Teaching Canada Annual Magazine Understanding Canada: A Primer for Americans Champlain and the Meeting of Two Worlds Maps for Teaching Canada, Champlain

Bilingual (English and French) publications and Internet sites
Government of Canada Resources Bilingual (English and French) publications and Internet sites Primary Gateway:

Other National Organizations
ACSUS (Association for Canadian Studies in the US) Website: Canadian Embassy & Consulates Websites: ICCS (International Council for Canadian Studies) Website: Canadian Educators and Education Resources (Dr JL Bencze - UT/OISE) Website: NCTC – ACSUS – Canadian Embassy (Washington, DC) produces publications: Local consulates can provide information as well. Discover where the consulate for your area is. Perhaps have the Consul or Consul General visit your class to discuss current issues in Canada-US relations. There are __ consulates in the US. OISE (Ontario Institute for Secondary Education, University of Toronto) is probably the premier teacher-training and research institute in Canada for primary and secondary levels of education. US teachers can access much information regarding Canadian schools through the website it maintains. If interested in finding partner schools, for example, for pen pals, etc., this is the site to go to. You can determine the location and grade level of school that you would prefer to partner with and be given contact information for the school and possibly even tour the school, etc., through the school’s own website.

Loan-Kits and Media Libraries
K-12 STUDY CANADA Loan-Kits at WWU: K-12 STUDY CANADA Resource Valise (2) (9 multimedia resource-based units for teaching) K-12 STUDY CANADA Student Novel Collection (1) (36 regional novels for young adults - Grades 4-9) Loan-Kit at University of Maine: The Canada Valise (Teacher-Developed Curriculum & Artifacts)

Loan-Kits and Media Libraries
Notable Film Libraries and Resources: University of Washington Website: SUNY-Plattsburgh Website: National Film Board of Canada Website: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Website:

Recommended Print Publications
Textbooks – Canada Northern Neighbor (display) Canada: The Five Themes of Geography (display) Canada: The Land, etc…(display w. CD-ROM) Canada and the US (Prentice-Hall?) (display) Workbooks – A variety of student workbooks are available—especially subjects of Geography (map skills), Canadian history and Canada’s First Nations. Display: Reference Materials – Display the Canadian Encyclopedia, The Encylopedia of BC, …. Beyond these obvious works, please consider the following titles for your classroom or school library: Atlases – Several good atlases and maps available – Display 3 atlases (provide SCSI participants with the atlas of their choice at session) and two maps. Discuss the map on view at resource display at Canada House as well as $99 map on view at session. Ordering resources info is available on separate handout in their binders. Picture Books – Canada’s children’s publishing industry has grown tenfold in the past 20 years. To find award-winning titles check: and and . Some wonderful children’s authors to consider are Michael Kusugak, , and Display these titles: Student Literature: For young adult fiction (grades 4-7) are several new series that deal with Canadian history in the way that the American Girls series does. Dear Canada Series and Canadian Girl series. Display titles: Of interest to boys might be the low-level high interest novels of Roy MacGregor in the Hockey series. (Display ) Traditionally, stories and novels by Farley Mowat, ( ) W.O. Mitchell (Jake and the Kid/ Who Has Seen the Wind?) and ___ are taught as well. (Display titles: ) At the high school level, at Canadian schools, Canadian short stories are often examined by authors like Gabrielle Roy ( ) , ___ ( ) ,and __ ( ) and –at the more senior level--novels by renowned authors like Margaret Laurence (Stone Angel), Mordechai Richler (The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz) and Robertson Davies ( ). Dr. Nancy Johnson will get into greater detail regarding young adult fiction in her talk on Thursday. Also, at the Center for Can-Am Studies, we have developed a Teacher loan-kit filled with 35 novels suitable for a range of reading levels and interests called the K-12 STUDY CANADA Student Novel Collection. I will provide more details about the loan-kit later in this presentation. Publishing & Purchasing Sources – Although all titles can be ordered directly through the publisher, a local bookstore or even Amazon.com, you may getter access to better prices and availability through the following sources: (Pacific Edge Publishing) / BestSellers Direct – both specialize in distributing educational materials to teachers in Canada and the US and deal with a large variety of publishers. (Have June edition of classroom resources newsletter on hand to distribute). The large Canadian online bookseller is chapters.ca They will have access to all popular Canadian titles and editions that may not be available through American booksellers. (Have bookmarks available to distribute).

Recommended Print Publications (K-3)

Recommended Print Publications (4-8)

Atlases & Classroom Maps of Canada

Fun Picture Books Textbooks – Canada Northern Neighbor (display)
Canada: The Five Themes of Geography (display) Canada: The Land, etc…(display w. CD-ROM) Canada and the US (Prentice-Hall?) (display) Workbooks – A variety of student workbooks are available—especially subjects of Geography (map skills), Canadian history and Canada’s First Nations. Display: Reference Materials – Display the Canadian Encyclopedia, The Encylopedia of BC, …. Beyond these obvious works, please consider the following titles for your classroom or school library: Atlases – Several good atlases and maps available – Display 3 atlases (provide SCSI participants with the atlas of their choice at session) and two maps. Discuss the map on view at resource display at Canada House as well as $99 map on view at session. Ordering resources info is available on separate handout in their binders. Picture Books – Canada’s children’s publishing industry has grown tenfold in the past 20 years. To find award-winning titles check: and and . Some wonderful children’s authors to consider are Michael Kusugak, , and Display these titles: Student Literature: For young adult fiction (grades 4-7) are several new series that deal with Canadian history in the way that the American Girls series does. Dear Canada Series and Canadian Girl series. Display titles: Of interest to boys might be the low-level high interest novels of Roy MacGregor in the Hockey series. (Display ) Traditionally, stories and novels by Farley Mowat, ( ) W.O. Mitchell (Jake and the Kid/ Who Has Seen the Wind?) and ___ are taught as well. (Display titles: ) At the high school level, at Canadian schools, Canadian short stories are often examined by authors like Gabrielle Roy ( ) , ___ ( ) ,and __ ( ) and –at the more senior level--novels by renowned authors like Margaret Laurence (Stone Angel), Mordechai Richler (The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz) and Robertson Davies ( ). Dr. Nancy Johnson will get into greater detail regarding young adult fiction in her talk on Thursday. Also, at the Center for Can-Am Studies, we have developed a Teacher loan-kit filled with 35 novels suitable for a range of reading levels and interests called the K-12 STUDY CANADA Student Novel Collection. I will provide more details about the loan-kit later in this presentation. Publishing & Purchasing Sources – Although all titles can be ordered directly through the publisher, a local bookstore or even Amazon.com, you may getter access to better prices and availability through the following sources: (Pacific Edge Publishing) / BestSellers Direct – both specialize in distributing educational materials to teachers in Canada and the US and deal with a large variety of publishers. (Have June edition of classroom resources newsletter on hand to distribute). The large Canadian online bookseller is chapters.ca They will have access to all popular Canadian titles and editions that may not be available through American booksellers. (Have bookmarks available to distribute).

Picture books that teach about people and history…

…about Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples

… about the Arctic Textbooks – Canada Northern Neighbor (display)
Canada: The Five Themes of Geography (display) Canada: The Land, etc…(display w. CD-ROM) Canada and the US (Prentice-Hall?) (display) Workbooks – A variety of student workbooks are available—especially subjects of Geography (map skills), Canadian history and Canada’s First Nations. Display: Reference Materials – Display the Canadian Encyclopedia, The Encylopedia of BC, …. Beyond these obvious works, please consider the following titles for your classroom or school library: Atlases – Several good atlases and maps available – Display 3 atlases (provide SCSI participants with the atlas of their choice at session) and two maps. Discuss the map on view at resource display at Canada House as well as $99 map on view at session. Ordering resources info is available on separate handout in their binders. Picture Books – Canada’s children’s publishing industry has grown tenfold in the past 20 years. To find award-winning titles check: and and . Some wonderful children’s authors to consider are Michael Kusugak, , and Display these titles: Student Literature: For young adult fiction (grades 4-7) are several new series that deal with Canadian history in the way that the American Girls series does. Dear Canada Series and Canadian Girl series. Display titles: Of interest to boys might be the low-level high interest novels of Roy MacGregor in the Hockey series. (Display ) Traditionally, stories and novels by Farley Mowat, ( ) W.O. Mitchell (Jake and the Kid/ Who Has Seen the Wind?) and ___ are taught as well. (Display titles: ) At the high school level, at Canadian schools, Canadian short stories are often examined by authors like Gabrielle Roy ( ) , ___ ( ) ,and __ ( ) and –at the more senior level--novels by renowned authors like Margaret Laurence (Stone Angel), Mordechai Richler (The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz) and Robertson Davies ( ). Dr. Nancy Johnson will get into greater detail regarding young adult fiction in her talk on Thursday. Also, at the Center for Can-Am Studies, we have developed a Teacher loan-kit filled with 35 novels suitable for a range of reading levels and interests called the K-12 STUDY CANADA Student Novel Collection. I will provide more details about the loan-kit later in this presentation. Publishing & Purchasing Sources – Although all titles can be ordered directly through the publisher, a local bookstore or even Amazon.com, you may getter access to better prices and availability through the following sources: (Pacific Edge Publishing) / BestSellers Direct – both specialize in distributing educational materials to teachers in Canada and the US and deal with a large variety of publishers. (Have June edition of classroom resources newsletter on hand to distribute). The large Canadian online bookseller is chapters.ca They will have access to all popular Canadian titles and editions that may not be available through American booksellers. (Have bookmarks available to distribute).

Students are never too young to read literature by Canadian authors…

Historical fiction engages students and
teaches about interesting time periods… Textbooks – Canada Northern Neighbor (display) Canada: The Five Themes of Geography (display) Canada: The Land, etc…(display w. CD-ROM) Canada and the US (Prentice-Hall?) (display) Workbooks – A variety of student workbooks are available—especially subjects of Geography (map skills), Canadian history and Canada’s First Nations. Display: Reference Materials – Display the Canadian Encyclopedia, The Encylopedia of BC, …. Beyond these obvious works, please consider the following titles for your classroom or school library: Atlases – Several good atlases and maps available – Display 3 atlases (provide SCSI participants with the atlas of their choice at session) and two maps. Discuss the map on view at resource display at Canada House as well as $99 map on view at session. Ordering resources info is available on separate handout in their binders. Picture Books – Canada’s children’s publishing industry has grown tenfold in the past 20 years. To find award-winning titles check: and and . Some wonderful children’s authors to consider are Michael Kusugak, , and Display these titles: Student Literature: For young adult fiction (grades 4-7) are several new series that deal with Canadian history in the way that the American Girls series does. Dear Canada Series and Canadian Girl series. Display titles: Of interest to boys might be the low-level high interest novels of Roy MacGregor in the Hockey series. (Display ) Traditionally, stories and novels by Farley Mowat, ( ) W.O. Mitchell (Jake and the Kid/ Who Has Seen the Wind?) and ___ are taught as well. (Display titles: ) At the high school level, at Canadian schools, Canadian short stories are often examined by authors like Gabrielle Roy ( ) , ___ ( ) ,and __ ( ) and –at the more senior level--novels by renowned authors like Margaret Laurence (Stone Angel), Mordechai Richler (The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz) and Robertson Davies ( ). Dr. Nancy Johnson will get into greater detail regarding young adult fiction in her talk on Thursday. Also, at the Center for Can-Am Studies, we have developed a Teacher loan-kit filled with 35 novels suitable for a range of reading levels and interests called the K-12 STUDY CANADA Student Novel Collection. I will provide more details about the loan-kit later in this presentation. Publishing & Purchasing Sources – Although all titles can be ordered directly through the publisher, a local bookstore or even Amazon.com, you may getter access to better prices and availability through the following sources: (Pacific Edge Publishing) / BestSellers Direct – both specialize in distributing educational materials to teachers in Canada and the US and deal with a large variety of publishers. (Have June edition of classroom resources newsletter on hand to distribute). The large Canadian online bookseller is chapters.ca They will have access to all popular Canadian titles and editions that may not be available through American booksellers. (Have bookmarks available to distribute).

Youth fiction creates a sense of place…

…for students of all reading levels.

Publishing & Purchasing Sources
Pacific Edge Publishing Chapters Bookstore Kidsbooks Vancouver Powell’s Books (Victoria) JK Publications Textbooks – Canada Northern Neighbor (display) Canada: The Five Themes of Geography (display) Canada: The Land, etc…(display w. CD-ROM) Canada and the US (Prentice-Hall?) (display) Workbooks – A variety of student workbooks are available—especially subjects of Geography (map skills), Canadian history and Canada’s First Nations. Display: Reference Materials – Display the Canadian Encyclopedia, The Encylopedia of BC, …. Beyond these obvious works, please consider the following titles for your classroom or school library: Atlases – Several good atlases and maps available – Display 3 atlases (provide SCSI participants with the atlas of their choice at session) and two maps. Discuss the map on view at resource display at Canada House as well as $99 map on view at session. Ordering resources info is available on separate handout in their binders. Picture Books – Canada’s children’s publishing industry has grown tenfold in the past 20 years. To find award-winning titles check: and and . Some wonderful children’s authors to consider are Michael Kusugak, , and Display these titles: Student Literature: For young adult fiction (grades 4-7) are several new series that deal with Canadian history in the way that the American Girls series does. Dear Canada Series and Canadian Girl series. Display titles: Of interest to boys might be the low-level high interest novels of Roy MacGregor in the Hockey series. (Display ) Traditionally, stories and novels by Farley Mowat, ( ) W.O. Mitchell (Jake and the Kid/ Who Has Seen the Wind?) and ___ are taught as well. (Display titles: ) At the high school level, at Canadian schools, Canadian short stories are often examined by authors like Gabrielle Roy ( ) , ___ ( ) ,and __ ( ) and –at the more senior level--novels by renowned authors like Margaret Laurence (Stone Angel), Mordechai Richler (The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz) and Robertson Davies ( ). Dr. Nancy Johnson will get into greater detail regarding young adult fiction in her talk on Thursday. Also, at the Center for Can-Am Studies, we have developed a Teacher loan-kit filled with 35 novels suitable for a range of reading levels and interests called the K-12 STUDY CANADA Student Novel Collection. I will provide more details about the loan-kit later in this presentation. Publishing & Purchasing Sources – Although all titles can be ordered directly through the publisher, a local bookstore or even Amazon.com, you may getter access to better prices and availability through the following sources: (Pacific Edge Publishing) / BestSellers Direct – both specialize in distributing educational materials to teachers in Canada and the US and deal with a large variety of publishers. (Have June edition of classroom resources newsletter on hand to distribute). The large Canadian online bookseller is chapters.ca They will have access to all popular Canadian titles and editions that may not be available through American booksellers. (Have bookmarks available to distribute).

Canada via the Internet: Top 10 Websites
1 Government of Canada Click "About Canada", "About Government" or "Provinces/Territories“…so much to learn that you may never visit another site! 2 Statistics Canada Explore many lesson plans and data for K-12 and post-secondary students and educators. 3 PBS' Online Extra Teacher Resources Type "Canada" and discover 4521 matches! 3084 just for Québec. 4 Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History Students will be drawn into Canadian history and archival research through the enticement of solving real "cold crimes"! Sound pedagogy behind material and teacher resources. 5 U Alberta Canadian Studies WebCentre Middle/H.S. students can easily navigate the many useful graphics and information bites. Take a look at the handout in your binder. You may want to highlight or asterisk the following sites: Search Engines - Government Gateways – Popular Portals – Linked Sites – k12studycanada.com

Top 10 Websites (Cont’d.) 6 Canada Eh? A personal page that offers downloadable Canada graphics useful for the classroom as well as a variety of information for students about Canada. 7 Historica Dominion Institute Professional Development Page Middle/HS-level lesson plans covering different periods and events in Canadian history. 8 Parks Canada 9 Unofficial Canadiana www2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/clamen/misc/Canadiana/Travelogue.html 10 The Canadian Social Studies Super Site Carefully screened connections to quality websites about Canada are offered that also give a glimpse into how Canadians teach about themselves. Take a look at the handout in your binder. You may want to highlight or asterisk the following sites: Search Engines - Government Gateways – Popular Portals – Linked Sites – k12studycanada.com

Key “GC” Gateways to Learning
Kids Canada Indian & Northern Affairs “How Canadians Govern Themselves” teaching material Canadian Info by Subject - National Library of Canada Canadian Heritage Information Network Take a look at the handout in your binder. You may want to highlight or asterisk the following sites: Search Engines - Government Gateways – Popular Portals – Linked Sites – k12studycanada.com

War of 1812 and Other Special / New Resources
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of the War of Many exciting new resources have been developed to commemorate the war. Visit our site to access them all easily: The NRCs on Canada, NCSS, and Canadian provincial SSTAs have also supported development of an interactive digital iBook suitable for Grade 7-12 classrooms called 1812: Who Won the War? It’s the first in a series to be produced by Epoch Multimedia Inc. The WWU Center for Canadian-American Studies, in partnership with faculty from Utoronto and UMoncton, has applied for an “Our Shared Past” grant to produce a suite of Grade 7-12 curricula and resources for teaching about The Acadian Experience in North America in classrooms on both sides of the border.

teach about Canada and Canada-US relations to your students!
This end is really your beginning… Take a look at the handout in your binder. You may want to highlight or asterisk the following sites: Search Engines - Government Gateways – Popular Portals – Linked Sites – k12studycanada.com … Now it’s time to share the fun of exploring more materials at the Resource Fair, develop curricula based on your learning and to teach about Canada and Canada-US relations to your students!

A PowerPoint walk-through of… The K-12 STUDY CANADA Resource Valise

9 Units of Study Artifacts 8 CD-ROMs 8 Music CDs 7 Videos/DVDs
Teacher Resources Internet Lists Multimedia Resources 8 CD-ROMs 8 Music CDs 7 Videos/DVDs

Multimedia Resources 8 CD-ROMS Canadian Geographic Explorer
Canada: Confederation to Present Cross Country Canada Totem Poles Adventure Canada Land of the Inuit Nunavut Territory Canadian Treasures

Multimedia Resources 8 Music CDs
Sing a Song of Canada + Songbook (Kim Soleski-Ward) Stompin’ Tom Sings Canada’s History (Stompin’ Tom Connors) Canada is for Kids – Vol. 1 & 2 (Michael Mitchell) Un Pays Qui Se Chante (Various Québec Artists) For the Times (Schooner Fare) This Child (Susan Aglukark) Gord’s Gold (Gordon Lightfoot) Sing a Song of Canada: A Musical Journey Across Canada (Kim Soleski-Ward CD & Songbook)

Multimedia Resources The Canadian History Series (1939-2000)
7 Videotapes/DVDs The Canadian History Series ( ) Postcards from Canada Paddle to the Sea The Group of Seven The Sweater CBC Life & Times: L.M. Montgomery Breaking the Ice: The Story of Mary Ann Shadd

Unit 1: O Canada! Artifacts: Teaching Resources:
Set of Provincial & Canada Flags Deck of “Cards Eh!” Fold-Out & Laminated 3-D Maps 12 Laminated Placemats Canada-at-Glance Binder Insert Teaching Resources: Canada Northern Neighbor The Spirit of Canada Canada’s Maple Leaf: The Story of Our Flag The Kids Book of Canada Sing a Song of Canada O Canada! NIE Supplement Internet List: 20 websites

Unit 2: BC – Totems & Emily Carr
Artifacts: Totem Pole Teaching Resources: Emily Carr: An Introduction to her Life and Art The Art Room Bentwood Box; Button Blanket; Cedar Plank Mask; Spindle Whorl BC: Land and People Internet List: 12 websites

Unit 3: Images of Ontario – From City to Shield
Artifacts: CN Tower Model & Brochure Art Pin (A.J. Casson’s “White Pine”) Teaching Resources: Looking at Landscape Resource Package Images of Nature: Canadian Poets and the Group of Seven Meet the Group of Seven Internet List: 12 websites

Unit 4: Québec – les Habitants & “the Habs!”
Artifacts: Montreal Canadians “Away” Hockey Jersey Teaching Resources: Québec: Land and People The Sweater (book) The Rise and Fall: New France Internet List: 12 websites

Unit 5: The Maritimes & the Land of Anne
Artifacts: P.E.I. License Plate w/ Anne Teaching Resources: Lucy Maud Montgomery: A Writer’s Life Duncan’s Way Internet List: 14 websites

Unit 6: Canada’s North & the Inuit
Artifacts: Inuksuk Kit Teaching Resources: Artists in the Arctic Resource Package The Kids Book of the Far North The Inuksuk Book Arctic Stories Internet List: 12 websites

Unit 7: Canadian Dreams – The Railroad, RCMP & Yukon Gold
Artifacts: CN Model Railway Car or RCMP Postcards/Poster Teaching Resources: The Cremation of Sam McGee The Kids Book of Canada’s Railway Boldly Canadian: RCMP The Mounties For Kids Activity Book Life in the Old West Series: The Railroad and The Gold Rush Internet List: 12 websites

Unit 8: Canada’s First Nations
Artifacts: Child’s Game Teaching Resources: Contemporary Art By First Nations Artists Resource Package Canada History: Prehistoric Canada (Ancient Canada–Aboriginal People) Paddle to the Sea From Time Immemorial Maple Moon Internet List: 12 websites

Unit 9: Black Canadians & the Underground Railroad
Artifacts: 2 Posters Teaching Resources: In Our Time: An Introductory Learning Guide The Spirit of Africville The Story of Mary Ann Shadd The Kids Book of Black Canadian History Internet List: 11 websites

A PowerPoint walk-through of… The K-12 STUDY CANADA Student Novel Collection

Unit 1: O Canada! Tunnels of Time (M. Harelkin Bishop) Saskatchewan
Rebellion (J. Scanlon) Manitoba Who Has Seen the Wind? (W.O. Mitchell) Saskatchewan Jake and the Kid (W.O. Mitchell) Saskatchewan Ticket to Curlew (C.B. Lottridge) Alberta

Unit 2: BC: Totems and Emily Carr
Will’s Garden (L. Maracle) also suitable for use with Unit 8 The West Coast Murders (R. MacGregor) Raven’s Flight (D. Silvey) Lambs of Hell’s Gate (M.L. Bright) Cariboo Runaway (D. Davis)

Unit 3: Images of Ontario —
From City to Shield The Lost Sketch (Adventure.Net Series – A. and D. Spalding) A Bushel of Light (T. Harrison) The Ghost of the Stanley Cup (R. MacGregor) Horror on River Road (R. MacGregor)

Unit 4: Québec: les Habitants & “the Habs!”
Unit 4: Québec: les Habitants & “the Habs!” Terra Incognita (A. Metikosh) The Hollow Tree (J. Lunn) The Quebec City Crisis (R. MacGregor) The King’s Daughter (S. Martel)

Unit 5: The Maritimes & the Land of Anne
The Girl on Evangeline Beach (A. Carter) Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery) Anne of Avonlea (L.M. Montgomery) Anne of the Island (L.M. Montgomery) Lucy Maud and Me (M.F. Coady)

Unit 6: Canada’s North and the Inuit
Napachee (R. Feagan) The Screech Owls’ Northern Adventure (R. MacGregor) Lost in the Barrens (F. Mowat) Call of the Wild (J. London) Not a Canadian author

Unit 7: Canadian Dreams: The Railroad,
RCMP & Yukon Gold Jason’s Gold (W. Hobbs) Not a Canadian author Ambush in the Foothills (B. Freeman) Gold Fever Trail (Monica Hughes) Steel Across the Shield (P. Berton)

Unit 8: Canada’s First Nations
Maybe Tomorrow (J. Weir) My Name is Sepeetza (S. Sterling) Will’s Garden (L. Maracle)

Unit 9: Black Canadians and the Underground Railroad
Underground to Canada (B. Smucker) If I Just Had Two Wings (V.F. Schwartz) The Last Safe House (B. Greenwood)

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