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HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY
The
following publications are available on this page
Geography
for all Seasons
Activity Cards for Ancient Civilizations
Ancient Civilizations
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Ancient Egypt
Feudal Japan
Ancient Rome
Diary of a Young
Girl
Discovering
Your World
The Revolutionary War
Canada At War
The
Native Peoples of Newfoundland
and Labrador
Suffer the
Children
The
Novel Approach:
Canadian History Books 1,2,3
A research
based activity book for Grades 3 - 7
which can be used to practice, review and reinforce lessons about world
geography. Students use atlases, encyclopedia, dictionaries and the Internet
to find solutions to innovative puzzles which increase their knowledge
of world geography. The
activities can be done independently or with a partner or in a group.
Activity Cards for Ancient Civilizationsby Charles M.
Thompson
A series of activity cards based
on Maslow's Needs Theory for physical, psychological and social
needs. Included are activities to research food, shelter,
transportation, religion and education. The cards are designed on
two levels, one for general use and one for more advanced work. The
cards are illustrated with scenes from Ancient Greece but can be used for
the study of any ancient civilization.(73
Pages)
Ancient Civilizations
- Ancient Egypt
by
Philip Richard
Ancient Egypt is a thematic
unit created for students in grades 4-7.
This unit gives details about
the social structure, government, homes, food, clothing and religious practices
of the Ancient Egyptians.
The unit consists of information
cards with appropriate activity sheets and a collection of activity cards
with activities in vocabulary, grammar, creative writing, research, art
and drama.
Some activities are designed
for independent work, others are meant for work with a partner or small
group.
Also included are suggestions
for teaching and evaluating the unit, tracking sheets, record sheets and
a list of resources.
Feudal Japan
by
Marcee Chapman This unit allows for grades 5 - 8
students to examine and analyze different aspects of the
culture of Feudal Japan.
Students work individually and in small groups as they study the
development of Japan, the religion, social structure and artistic culture
of the time. Students will present oral, dramatic and written
projects.
The unit contains suggestions for teaching the unity, detailed lesson
plans and a wide variety of information sheets, activity sheets and an
answer keys. (70 pages)
Ancient Civilizations
- Ancient Rome by
Philip Richard
Ancient Rome is a thematic
unit created for students in grades 4-7. This unit gives details about
the social structure, government, homes, food, clothing and religious practices
of the Ancient Romans.
The unit consists of information
cards with appropriate activity sheets and a collection of activity cards
with activities in vocabulary, grammar, creative writing, research, art
and drama.
Some activities are designed
for independent work, others are meant for work with a partner or small
group.
Also included are suggestions
for teaching and evaluating the unit, tracking sheets, record sheets and
a list of resources.
This study of the
diary kept by Anne Frank as she hid from the Nazis in Amsterdam during World
War 11 for almost two years was created for students from Grades
7-9.
It contains work sheets on vocabulary and word usage, grammar , comprehension,
creative writing, research, art and drama.
Also included are activity cards for independent and group projects and
discussion. The teacher's section contains suggestions for
teaching the unit, evaluation forms, tracking sheets, a list of useful
resources and an answer key. (85 pages)
This integrated unit will
introduce students to various countries as they plan a trip around the
world.
The unit is very flexible and can
be adapted for any grade level and
time period.
It consists of detailed suggestions
for planning a "journey" that best suits the needs of
your class.
Worksheets for planning an
itinerary, making passports and calculating distances are included,
together with peer and self evaluation sheets and tracking sheets.
Students will utilize research
skills as they learn about language, history, geography and culture of
the countries they "visit" on their world trip. (44
Pages)
This unit for grades 4 - 6,
contains nine historical novels that give background knowledge of life
during the Revolutionary War. The novels range in reading and
interest levels. (99 pages)
Novels are:
Changes for Felicity, Give me Liberty, George Washington's Sock, Hope's
Crossing, Thomas, Toliver's Secret, The Secret Soldier, The Riddle of Pencroft
Farm
This is an integrated learning unit for grades
7 - 10 integrating language arts, creative writing, history,
geography, drama, music and visual arts, while studying the wars and
conflicts in which Canada has been actively involved during the past three
hundred years.
There is an emphasis on using a variety of methods for research, and many
of the activities are done cooperatively in groups.
The unit also contains suggestions for teaching and classroom
organization, tracking sheets, suggestions for evaluation, including peer
and self evaluation, excepts from novels, poetry, and ideas for teaching
vocabulary development, essay writing, integrated art ideas and learning
and using various literary devices. (78 pages)
This is the first of a series written for Grades
7 - 10 which examine the exploitation of children throughout the ages.
Book 1: Orphans
and Street Urchins
Book 1 uses literature, poetry and music as
resources for research and discussion. Students will learn about the
treatment of orphaned and abandoned children in the Eighteenth,
Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, with the study of excerpts from Les
Miserables by Victor Hugo and Oliver
Twist by Charles Dickens. The situation of those living on the streets today is examined,
along with various plans put forth by governments and the United Nations
to solve this problem. A wide selection of activities to be done in groups, with partners or
individually is provided. Students are encouraged to use the
Internet as a research tool. The unit includes
suggestions for teaching and evaluation, tracking sheets, excerpts from
novels and activities. (100 pages)
Suffer the
Children by
Jeanette Dillon
Book 2 The Child as Bread Winner The second book of this series for Grades
7 - 10 concentrates on the predicament of the child as bread
winner in Europe, North America and other countries from the 19th century
to the present time. Using excerpts from The
Water Babies by Charles Kingsley, Hans Anderson's The
Little Match Girl and poetry by William Blake and Robert Louis
Stevenson.
Sections on Factory Acts, United Empire Loyalists, The Scottish Clearances
and child labor in south east Asia are included.
Also provided are suggestions for classroom organization and teaching the
unit, tracking sheets, evaluation sheets and ideas for participating in a
formal debate, writing an essay and using various literary devices.
(95 pages)
The
Novel Approach:
Book 1 Canadian History from 1670-1837
This
unit for Grades 7 - 8
contains historical novels that tell of the life in New France, the
contributions of the voyageurs, the immigration of the Loyalists, the lives of
immigrants from Europe, the War of 1812, living in the city of York and the 1837
rebellion in Upper Canada (100 pages)
Novels are: The King's Daughter, Another Shore,
The Broken Blade, Escape: The Adventures of a Loyalist Family, Death Over
Montreal, Fire Ship, The Bully Boys, The Boy With an R in his Hand, To hang a
Rebel, Rebellion.
The
Novel Approach:
Book 2 Canadian History from 1866 to
1910 This unit for Grades
7 - 8 contains novels
that tell of the events leading to Confederation, The Riel Rebellions, the
Klondike gold rush, building the Trans Canada Railway, and the lives of new
immigrants to Canada.
(105 pages)
Novels are:
Spy in the Shadows, A Ribbon of Shining Steel, Soldier Boys, Battle Cry of
Batoche, The Shanty Men of Cache Lake, The Secret of Sentinel Rock, Gold Fever
Trail, Jason's Gold, Anne of Green Gables, The Shacklands.
The
Novel Approach:
Book 3 Canadian History from 1910 to
1936
This unit for Grades 7 - 8
contains novels that tell of the First World war, the extreme drought in the
prairie provinces and the effects of the Great Depression on rural and urban
communities in Canada. (93 pages)
Novels are:
Home Child, Charlie Wilcox, The Hydrofoil Mystery, After the Dancing Days,A Prairie as Wide as the Sea,
Summer of the Mad Monk,Blaines
Way
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