Social Studies Grades K-4

Lessons and projects for teaching students about the culture of Alberta. Click on the pictures rather than the links to avoid the login request.

Learn lots of facts about Alberta in this children's encyclopedia article.

Learn the facts about Alberta from this encyclopedia article.

Emblems are objects that symbolize another object or an idea. There are many official emblems of Alberta. Discover them on this site from the Alberta Government.

Place names carry stories, history, culture and values. Learn about the history of some of central Alberta's place. You can see the work of students as they explore how places and people got their names.

In Canada close to 30,000 official place names are, or may be, of Indigenous origin. Learn about a small sample of those names here!

A collection of maps, articles, brochures and other resources needed to teach students about Alberta. You can bypass the sign-in by clicking an image rather than a link

The official site for Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump has information about Blackfoot History, how the site got its name, and school tours.

In this short video, an RCMP officer watches an Inuit family build the Northern landmark (an inukshuk), a sign of human activity on the vast arctic landscape (1931).

This digital image collection includes photographs picturing elements of physical geography, climate, geology and paleontology that are integral to the landscapes and environment of Alberta.

You can use the orange arrows to move the slide show or let the images change on their own. After the slide show, test your understanding of fossil fuels.

You can use the orange arrows to move the slide show of fossils and paleontology digs or let the images change on their own. Try out the test about fossils as well.

First, you can check out this slide show of landforms. Once you've got all the best info, try out the test and the karaoke.

The orange arrows will move the slide show or you can let the images change on their own. After the slide show, test your understanding of natural resources.

From Learn Alberta, click on various regions of the map and hotspots to learn all about the flora and fauna of the physical regions of Alberta.

Here teachers will find lesson plans. The Informatics, Activities, and Multimedia sections contain textual information, puzzles, worksheets, images, video and audio clips that you and your students can use.

Created by the Alberta Heritage Community Foundation, this site will give students an overview of early settler history of our province.

This site explores the history of Indigenous peoples on the land that became Alberta. This site was created by the Alberta Heritage Community Foundation

This site offers students and learners of all ages a broad portrait of Alberta's inventive spirit, a drive that has helped to shape the province's development and fuels current and ongoing research and development. Journey with us and discover that ingenuity has always been and will continue to be a vital part of every sector of industry in Alberta.

Learn about the early migration of Chinese settlers into Alberta and what life was like for them here.

In The Amazing Race, students explore agriculture and its strong connection to, and dependence on, the land, natural resources and population centres of geographic regions across Canada and Alberta.

Bella Morrisseau Whiskeyjack, a nine-year-old from the Saddle Lake Cree First Nation in Alberta, shares her story about Treaty 6 and life on the reserve.

On this site, you'll find a small collection of personal photos that document the lives of Black Canadians in Alberta

Scroll through the timeline; explore key developments in Alberta's history, from 1754 - 2017.

Learn more about the province you live in.

Watch this brief vignette about Edmonton's very successful women's basketball team, The Edmonton Grads. This is the classic black and white Heritage Minute video.

This famous group of female basketball players were the most successful team in Canadian sports history. This is an updated version of a classic Heritage Minute.

Examine hundreds of artifacts, historic photographs, documents and maps from the Glenbow Museum that help tell Alberta's story.

This site documents the history of Métis people in Western Canada generally and specifically in Alberta.

An article from the archived Alberta Online Encyclopedia.

A lesson plan for K-4 students that uses Bannock as the medium for exploring Métis ideas of identity and community

A lesson plan for grades 4-9 students from the Rupertsland Institute that explores the role of scrip Métis-Settler relationships.

In 1974, a science teacher exploring near Grande Prairie stumbled upon a discovery that would lead to years of research, a multi-million-dollar world-class museum, and even a new species of dinosaur.

Rudyard Kipling visited Medicine Hat, Alberta on three separate occasions during his lifetime. The then-booming gas town owes much to those visits, including the name “Medicine Hat.”

Fort McMurray had one of the most important shipyards in Canada. Dating back to the fur trade, the history reveals a vital partnership between indigenous populations and Europeans, from days of canoes to sternwheelers and barges.

The Al Rashid Mosque is the first Mosque in Canada, and it exists only because of the perseverance of some very strong women. Their efforts brought together may faiths to build and preserve not just a building, but a community.

Lessons and projects developed to teach students about the history of Alberta. Click the pictures rather than the links to avoid the sign-in prompt.

This interactive explores the role of the buffalo in the lives of the American Indians. How do the stories from a buffalo hide painting and activity about First Nations use of the buffalo relate to our Alberta history?

This is a great Canadian site that has virtual interactive tours of eleven different types of farm (some of them are in Alberta). Take a look inside the barns and through the fields to learn about the lives of the animals who live there and the farmers who work with them. (site)

This map allows you to choose several options for map background: natural regions, river systems, Treaty areas or Métis Nation of Alberta Regions. Then, you can choose the overlay of cities, highways, First Nations, Métis settlements or other places of FNMI significance.

This article describes the history of railways in Canada generally and why they were so important to our country. It then examines the history of the Canadian Pacific Railway in detail.

A 2.5 minute animated video from CBC Kids News that explains what the word Indigenous means and how we use it.