Resources: Social Studies 1: General

Welcome

Welcome to the Grade 1 Social Studies page for teachers in Alberta. These resources have been selected to support the new curriculum.

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General

CBBC Newsround
The home of news and fun facts for kids. Find out what is going on, with stories, pictures and videos.
CBC Kids News
CBC has created a news site specifically for kids. Check out the featured stories, choose from the Hot Topics or search for a topic.
DogoNews
News for kids focused on English Language Arts, Science, and Social Studies.
International Children’s Digital Library
The goal of this site is to build a collection of books that represents outstanding historical and contemporary books from throughout the world.
Unite for Literacy Library
Take a look at this bookshelf of non-fiction ebooks for grades K-3. Which book would you like to read?

Teacher Resources

CCBC Teacher's Book Bank
This database of Canadian historical fiction and non-fiction books describes books you can use with your students.
Galileo: Early Learning
A collection of resources for early childhood educators focused on play-based learning
K-6 Social Studies: Book Bundles
A list of books reviewed and recommended by an Alberta Social Studies instructor.
Learning 4 Kids
Created by an Australian early childhood educator, this site has simple ideas for engaging learning. Filter resources by age and/or category.
PBS Learning: Early Elementary
A collection of videos and interactives for use with early elementary students. Filter by subject or type of resource. Teacher resources accompany these videos
Rupertsland Centre for Teaching and Learning
Find find lesson plans, professional development opportunities and classroom learning tools on Métis education.
Rupertsland Institute: B is for Bannock
A lesson plan for K-4 students that uses Bannock as the medium for exploring Métis ideas of identity and community
Social Justice Books Booklist
Teaching for Change developed SocialJusticeBooks.org in 2017 to identify and promote the best multicultural and social justice children’s books, as well as articles and books for educators.
Teaching Kids News
Every week we feature a different news article. Every story is in kid-friendly language and appropriate for kids in grades 2 to 8

Social Studies 1: General

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