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Integrating Current Issues with Dance

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Through an integrated teaching/learning model, students investigate a current Canadian social issue. They gather ba [Read More]
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How People Affect the Natural Environment

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Students conduct an integrated Inquiry into the interrelationships between people (the students) and the environmen [Read More]
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Exploring Democracy – Debate

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In the culminating activity for this inquiry, students engage in a debate process with their peers. They use co-cr [Read More]
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Social action through letter writing

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Students participate in a school-wide social action letter writing campaign, inspired by letters from the Attawapis [Read More]
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Exploring the Need for Water – Gr. 2

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Teachers discuss the use of photographs as primary source materials to develop historical thinking (cause and cons [Read More]
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Exploring Water with World Photos

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Students use photographs to ask questions and analyse the relationship between environment and ways of life in comm [Read More]
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Exploring Democracy Grades 4/5

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These students are engaged in their learning as they use primary source documents (The Athenian, The Iroquois Natio [Read More]
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Exploring Democracy – Continuity and Change- Gr. 4/5

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Students’ inquiry questions become the “markers” along a historical timeline which is a visual representatio [Read More]
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Exploring Democracy- Interpreting and Analysing Constitutions

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In this video, these Grade 5 students focus on the concept of “rights”. Using a “decision-making matrix” t [Read More]

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