Great+Websites+for+Social+Studies+11+students

Websites for SS 11

1920s Simulation game link http://collections.musee-mccord.qc.ca/en/keys/games/18

NEW 2011 [] https://sites.google.com/site/mrandersonssocials/ (Great teacher website) emp.ca/cwp (good book website)

Provincial Exams [] (Provincial Exams online) [](Exam Review Prep) [] (Exam Review Prep) [] (online tutoring, courses, libraries) [] (Good teacher website=lots of information, links, podcasts (summary provincial exam review) [] (Good teacher website)

General History (Canadian and other) [] [] (Archives on CBC=great for a visual on Canadian History) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[] (Dictionary for Canadian Biography online) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[] (Canadian History website=little snippets of Canadian History) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[|http://www.members.shaw.ca/fhlibrary/cursocstudies.htm#ss11] (Our very own Frank Hurt Website with many educational links!) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[] (A powerful school website with many links to different historical educational libraries) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[] (Canadian Heritage website=good search engine for Canadian history) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[] (Canadian website=perspective on Canada’s involvement in War) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">http://www.worldalmanacforkids. com/ (A good website offering information on Population, Geography, Environment=more of an American perspective, but fun activities) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[] (Fun way of looking at World’s/Canada’s present-day politics) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[] (Canadian History=Constitutional History, Aboriginal Treaties, Immigration Acts) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[] (Political Cartoons) ===<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[] (Political Responses to the Great Depression) === <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Canadian Politics <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[] (Canadian Parliament) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[] (Election Canada) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[](Federal Elections 2007) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[] Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Canadian History <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[] (20th century timeline of Canadian history)

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[] (background history links for About.com)

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[] (offers account of Canada’s history with thematic tours, games, public zone)

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">WWI <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[] (Battle of the Somme) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[] (Outline of the First World War=More of a British Perspective, but lots of visuals, links etc.) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[] (Outline of the First World War) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[] (Canada’s involvement in the Great War = Good Video) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[] (Propaganda Posters) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[] (Outline of the First World War=videos, links, biographies etc.) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[] (A really great website for WWI=includes memoirs, focus on key battles, maps, propaganda posters, vintage media, war in the air/sea, Western Front Today) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[] (Canada’s military History=good perspective starting from Boer War going into the present day) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[] (Overview of the War=Canadian perspective) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[] (poems, songs, digital war art, virtual war memorial=Canadian perspective) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[] (Heritage website for the Great War) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[] (war posters) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[] (An informative website on WW I (more of a global perspective))

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">WWII <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[] (corvette) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[] (BBC’s WWII website – a lot of interactive activities/videos/photographs) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[] (Interactive website=view internment camps) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[] (Juno Beach=video) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[] (Remembering Canada’s war effort) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[]-Love Hate and Propaganda

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Chapter 8 <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[] (video clip explaining bill 101) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[] (Aboriginal Rights=includes Indian Act/Aboriginal voting rights/White and Red Papers) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[] (Political Cartoons from the time period) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[] (Residential Schooling=Aboriginal)

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Cold War <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[] (Canada’s response to the Korean War) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[] (Canada’s involvement in the United Nations) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[] (Visual gallery of war in Vietnam=warning some images are quite disturbing!)

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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Geography

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Chapter 13:Demography <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[] (Interactive Population Pyramids) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[|http://www.statcan.ca/english/kits/courses/history.htm#century] (Animated Population Pyramids = Focus on Canada’s Population

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Chapter 17: Climate Change <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[] (a blog that is dedicated to climate change) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[] (concerts and informative website dedicated to climate change) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[] (A really fun explanation of climate change=Focus on Global Warming) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[] (A great website for weekly environmental “earth” news)