I was recently asked to provide a top ten list for students studying for the History 404 exam. I knew it was a hard call, but nonetheless the process of finding some of my favourites proved interesting. (And I am sure you have some suggestions you can add in the comments!) Here is what I [...]
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Many of you know I am teaching history online this year for LEARN. That means I have the distinct advantage of always having the Internet at my finger tips, and my students also have the same luxury, something not every teacher can say! Though there are other challenges involved, like teaching students not to just [...]
The Saguenay-St. Lawrence Marine Park: A Protected Territory Source: Flickr user Jenny & Jan The following learning and evaluation situation uses images as a learning tool. Its purpose is to help students discover and understand the role played by protected areas on Earth by closely examining an example of a unique Canadian territory: the Saguenay-St. [...]
There is an underlying subtext that subversively sneaks in and out of my grade 10 history course this year. It’s called reality. Sometimes we call it the present day, sometimes it is just called news. The textbooks we use and the Quebec programs call it the Contemporary Period (though more often than not that ends [...]
Last year Matt Russell and I presented an idea at the LCEEQ workshop series on how his class might research life stories of soldiers using the Lest We Forget Project: Cenotaph Research site to research actual soldiers’ files and then … Google Earth to map their experiences! This year Matt took it to the students, with [...]
Read my latest contribution to the LEARN main blog, after my last workshop at QPAT on the Montreal Life Stories project. Connections to Contemporary World, History, Ethics and Religious Culture and real life abound! Click here …
History and Citizenship Education 404…. Once upon a time!? “You will create a book that will summarize the main ideas of the course History and Citizenship Education. Your book will include five chapters. You will be creating the characters, the context and the plot and integrate the important stages of a narrative written production in [...]
The new LEARN blog has started, and I recently got to write about my personal experience teaching online, a real first-timer’s view of the realities of e-learning, but also of teaching History Sec 4 according to the new programs (a sub-text in this first entry, but hopefully one that will rise to the surface in [...]
As part of a larger reworking of LEARN LESs to fit the new Evaluation Frameworks and Progressions of Learning, I have recently updated the Cycle 2 Year 2 LES on Population. In essence, while piloting the same LES in my online course for History Sec. 4 I thought it better to start the year with [...]
The Focus Series has been almost entirely put online, and this is a big bonus for History and Geography (and all other) teachers at all levels. To access the Focus Tools you would need to login with your LEARN password here http://www.learnquebec.ca/en/content/ccc_sec/ These handy tools, originally distributed as printed paper tools in binders and booklets, are [...]
