Social Studies

Designed by and for high school teachers, this educational toolkit was developed to inform and empower youth to take action toward alleviating human suffering. Using Canadian examples, this toolkit has 6 modules that touch on issues of International Humanitarian Law such as war crimes, refugees, neglected crises, gender inequality, humanitarian principles, mechanisms for justice and youth engagement.

This database of Canadian historical fiction and non-fiction books describes books you can use with your students.

This site has resources and tools (classroom activities, lesson plans) for learning, teaching, and engaging about elections and democracy. (from Elections Canada)

A great guide for incorporating indigenous perspectives throughout the social studies curriculum.

A site that allows teachers to host student debates in a private environment. Discussions and debates are clearly visualized as an interactive tree of pro and con arguments

A fantastic collection of Social Studies 30-1 and 30-2 resources that was put together by a teacher

Parable of the Polygons provides teachers with a creative way to open up the discussion around bias and its impact on society. The interactive games help students see and understand how “harmless choices can make a harmful world.”

Create a free account to access to lesson plans and more about: Identities and Pluralism, Perspectives and Opinions, Political Ideologies, Underlying Values.

StoryMapJS is a free tool to help you tell stories on the web that highlight the locations of a series of events. It is a new tool, yet stable in our development environment, and it has a friendly authoring tool.

Teachinghistory.org is designed to help K–12 history teachers access resources and materials to improve U.S. history education in the classroom.

This open-access journal provides teachers at all levels with the best and newest ideas for their classrooms. Although focuse on American history, the methods of teaching can be applied into Canadian classrooms.

One hundred objects from museums across the UK with resources, information and teaching ideas to inspire your students’ interest in history.

A teacher's resource page from the Canadian Museum of History that includes a collection of digitized museum artifacts, archival documents, video clips, audio clips, and activity suggestions for your class.

These videos are intended to support classroom learning in an Alberta High School Social Studies classrooms.

All course materials for three World History Project courses are available here for free as an Open Education Resource. These courses are aimed at US high school students but parts of the courses may apply into Alberta curriculum.

This is a webpage written by high school teachers for those who teach world history and want to find online content as well as technology that you can use in the classroom.