SOCIAL
STUDIES LINKS
CANADA-Provinces
and Territories
COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD
CULTURE
AND HOLIDAYS
FIRST
NATIONS STUDIES
HISTORY
Ancient
Civilizations
British Columbia
Canadian History Links
Explorers
IMMIGRATION
MAPPING
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CRITICAL
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GENERAL
SOCIAL STUDIES
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CANADA-Provinces and Territories
- Click
here to go to set of locally developed information that contains all that
you need to cover the IRPs for Canada-Grade 2/3 (Provincial capitals, population,
symbols of the provinces and Canada, lesson plans, maps, the history of some
of BC's communities)..
- Canadian
and Provincial Flags, Symbols and Facts
- Canada
Info. A Tribute to Canada – This is an
excellent site with tonnes of information about Canada.
- Oh
Canada. - Here you can find lots of information about Canada including
links to info about provinces and territories, the "Canadian Rant",
info. about our symbols, and information about the origin of hockey.
- Canada
eh? - This is an excellent place to research famous Canadians and famous
Canadian inventions.
- Oh!
Canada, eh? - Here you will find information about our culture and famous
Canadians as well as information about Canadian inventions (try the quiz).
- Statistics
Canada - Teacher Resources page. Here you will find lesson plans and
projects that you can use with information from Statistics Canada.
- The
National Atlas of Canada Online - This is a great site to use to get
maps and information about Canada. In here are also base maps of Canada and
topographical maps. Also see pictures of school kids in Nunavut.
- The National
Library of Canada - Here you can find digital image collections of Canada,
government information, archives and take a virtual tour of the actual building.
- People
and Places: Nunavut –
This is the Nunavut community page from the atlas in case you can’t find it.
- Canada
Speaks - This is an excellent resource
for information about the Canadian Prime Ministers with information, pictures
and copies of their speeches.
- Canadian
Places and People in Photography – pictures
of Canadian people and places.
COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD
CULTURE AND HOLIDAYS
HISTORY 
Ancient
Civilizations:
British Columbia:
- A
Chinese Canadian Story: The Yip Sang Family. - This is the story of one
of the early Chinese settlers in Vancouver. It is a great, informative site.
-
Barkerville Cemetary - Listings of all those buried in the Barkerville
Cemetary.
- B.C.
Archives Amazing Time Machine
- This is a great site that offers sections on the history of Women in BC,
First Nations people, Multiculturalism, Families, BC Resource Development,
Immigration in BC and more. There is also a Teacher's Corner for each section
with classroom activities.
- British
Columbia's Historical Communities
- This is a really nice site for primary classes to learn about communities
and the history of Victoria's Chinatown.
- The
Cariboo Gold Rush - Here you can learn everything you need to know about
the Gold Rush: Transportation, Construction, Women and Roadhouse Maps are
among topics you can choose. Also a "Just for Kids" section and
a Teacher's Corner with lesson plans for teachers of grade 5 and grade 10
(covers Ministry IRPs).
- Craigflower
schoolhouse in Victoria - This is a fantastic site about the history of
the Craigflower area in Victoria. Also has teaching resources.
- Fort
Steele Heritage Town – Pictures and information about Fort Steele, British
Columbia. This is a great site.
- The
Gold Rush Town of Yale - This is a great site to visit to learn about
the Gold Rush. Also has a "Just For Kids Section" and a Teacher's
Corner with activities for in the classroom.
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Canadian History Links:
Explorers:
- Age
of Exploration Time Line - This is a
timeline of exploration with links to short bits of information about the
explorers.
- Discoverers
Web - This is a site with links to information about most explorers.
- Educator's
Choice Search
- Here you will find links to biographies of over 25 mostly Canadian explorers.
- Explorers
- This is a great place to research various explorers and learn about the
first contact with the Northwest.
- Explorers
Theme Page - This
CLN page has links to information about the explorers.
-
Great Canadian Explorers - This is a really good place to research some
of the Great Explorers of Canada.
- Samuel
Hearne - Samuel
Hearne's diary entries take you on his journey of the exploration of Canada
and he talks about his dealings with the early Aboriginal People.
- Virtual
-Antarctica: History
- This site has lots of information about the history and exploration of Antarctica.
There is also a Virtual Journey to Antarctica taken in 1995.
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MAPPING
- National
Geographic Expeditions – Printable maps of countries around the world.
Here you can choose detailed or basic and print maps out. You can get empty
outlines for students to work on. This is an excellent site to visit!
- Geogame
- This is a really neat collaborate project inwhich students enter clues about
our community for other classes to quess where it is and students here read
other school's clues and guess where they are.
- How far
is it? - Use to find distance between 2 places (use Comox instead of Courtenay)
-
Lycos World Guide to Cities - (Courtenay
is not in here but you can research other cities). Type in the name of the
city in the Search square.
- Earth
and Moon Viewer - View the Earth and Moon from different satellite images
and from different points of view.
