Websites to Support the New Curriculum
Grade 6: Cluster 2
An Emerging Nation
Learning Experience
6.2.1
World War I
6.2.1 ACTIVATING STRATEGIES
Veterans’ Affairs Canada, The First World War, Diaries and Letters:
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/
sub.cfm?source=history/firstwar/1diary
National Archives of Canada, Canada in the First World War, We Were There:
http://www.archives.ca/05/0518/051801_e.html
Canada’s Digital Collections, Remembering Courage, Memoirs from World War I:
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/courage/memoirsfromworldwari.html
The Canadian Letters and Images Project:
http://www.canadianletters.ca/
Historica, Heritage Minutes, Valour Road:
http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?ID=10192
Veterans Affairs Canada, Design and Construction of the Vimy Ridge Memorial:
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm
?source=memorials/ww1mem/vimy/vmemory
Veterans Affairs Canada, Canadian First World War Memorials:
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm
?source=history/firstwar/canada/Canada20
Veterans Affairs Canada, Facts on Canada’s Involvement in World War I:
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/youth/sub.cfm
?source=teach_resources/firstfact
Introduction - Learning Centre - Library and Archives Canada:
- good section on cenotaphs.
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/education/index-e.html
Manitobia: Life and Times:
http://manitobia.ca/cocoon/launch/en/themesSelectionPage
6.2.1 ACQUIRING STRATEGIES
Veterans Affairs Canada, Canada and the First World War, The Conflict Begins:
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm
?source=history/firstwar/canada/canada1
Manitobia: Life and Times:
http://manitobia.ca/cocoon/launch/en/themesSelectionPage
Manitobia: Life and Times:
http://manitobia.ca/cocoon/launch/en/themesSelectionPage
Veterans’ Affairs Canada, Activities, Picture History, First World War:
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/youth/sub.cfm?source=activities
Canada’s Digital Collections, Courage Remembered, In the Spirit of War:
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/courage/inthespiritofwar.html
(photos, descriptions of trench warfare)
Somme Battlefield Tours, Archive Material, Images of the Great War:
http://www.battlefield-tours.com/
Canadian War Museum, World War I, Map:
http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/canvas/1/images/cwmap02.jpg
United States Military Academy, Maps, World War I, Europe 1914:
http://www.dean.usma.edu/history/web03/atlases/
great%20war/great%20war%20%20pages/great%20war%20map%2002.htm
(map of the Allied Powers and Central Powers)
History Television, For King and Empire, Canadian Soldiers in the Great War:
http://www.kingandempire.com/index.html
Canadian Heritage Galleries, Wars, Battles and Rebellions, WWI:
http://www.canadianheritage.org/galleries/warsbattlesrebellions.htm
National Archives of Canada, Life in the trenches:
http://www.archives.ca/05/0518/05180102/0518010206_e.html
Veterans’ Affairs Canada, History, Canada and the First World War:
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm
?source=history/firstwar/canada
Canadian Encyclopedia, Junior version, World War I:
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm
?PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=J0008716&mState=1
Historica, The Prime Ministers of Canada:
http://www.primeministers.ca/index.php
National Library of Canada, Prime Ministers:
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/primeministers/index-e.html
National Library of Canada, Prime Ministers for Kids:
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/primeministers/kids/index-e.html
National Library of Canada, Prime Ministers for Kids, Facts:
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/primeministers/kids/h9-3000-e.html
War Museum, Canada and the First World War, Recruitment and Conscription:
http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/chrono/1914conscription_e.html
Internment of Ukrainians in Canada 1914 – 1920:
http://209.82.14.226/history/internment/
Image Gallery of Life in Ukrainian Internment Camps in Canada:
http://209.82.14.226/history/internment/gallery/
Ukrainian Internment Camps in Canada (map):
http://www.infoukes.com/history/internment/gulag/
Heritage Minutes, Halifax Explosion:
http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?ID=10203
CBC, The Halifax Explosion:
http://www.cbc.ca/halifaxexplosion/
World War I Trenches on the Web, The Battlefield Art of Mary Riter Hamilton:
http://www.worldwar1.com/sfmrh.htm
Heritage Minutes, Flanders:
http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?ID=10200
Museum of Civilization, “New Canadian War Museum Exhibition Gallery to be named after John McCrae”:
http://www.warmuseum.ca/media/show_pr_e.asp?ID=386
Canadian War Museum, A Day of Remembrance:
http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/remember/index_e.html
Veterans’ Affairs Canada, John McCrae:
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/youth/sub.cfm
?source=history/firstwar/mccrae
6.2.1 APPLYING STRATEGIES
Canadian War Museum, Canvas of War, First World War:
http://www.civilization.ca/cwm/canvas/cwint01e.html
(excellent site, many beautiful images, quotations, information about artists)
Canada’s Digital Collections, Courage Remembered, War Artists of World War I:
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/courage/warartistsofworldwarone.html
Veterans Affairs Canada, English Songs Popular During the Second World War:
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=collections/chorus
Veterans Affairs Canada, Remembrance Day posters:
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=collections/poster
Canadian War Museum, A Day of Remembrance:
http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/remember/index_e.html
Somme Battlefield Tours, Archive Material, Posters of the Great War:
http://www.battlefield-tours.com/
Learning Experience
6.2.2
Social Change
6.2.2 ACTIVATING STRATEGIES
Manitobia: Life and Times:
http://manitobia.ca/cocoon/launch/en/themesSelectionPage
Canadian Encyclopedia, Winnipeg General Strike: http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm
?PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=J0008649&mState=1
The Canadian Identity Wiki
http://www.canadianidentity.com/wiki/index.php/Winnipeg_General_Strike=
Timelinks, Winnipeg General Strike, Bloody Saturday:
http://timelinks.merlin.mb.ca/referenc/db0129.htm
Manitobia: Life and Times:
http://manitobia.ca/cocoon/launch/en/themesSelectionPage
6.2.2 ACQUIRING STRATEGIES
Voices of Discontent (Background information):
http://history.cbc.ca/history/?MIval=Section.html
&series_id=1&episode_id=12&chapter_id=3&lang=E
The Canadian Identity Wiki
http://www.canadianidentity.com/wiki/index.php/Winnipeg_General_Strike=
Heritage Minutes, Nellie McClung (Mock Parliament):
http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?ID=10643
Heritage Minutes, Emily Murphy, The Persons’ Case:
http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?ID=10205
Heritage Minutes, Agnes MacPhail (First Woman MP):
http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?ID=10212
A Guide to Women in Canadian History - contains descriptions of books about politically and socially active women in Canada:
http://www.heroines.ca
Manitobia: Life and Times:
http://manitobia.ca/cocoon/launch/en/themesSelectionPage
Canada’s Digital Collections, The Famous Five: Their Achievements:
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/famous5/achievements/achievements_index.html
HerStory, Suffrage: The Women’s Parliament:
http://library.usask.ca/herstory/woparl.html
Timelinks, Nellie McClung:
http://timelinks.merlin.mb.ca/referenc/db0003.htm
Timelinks, Suffrage Movement :
http://timelinks.merlin.mb.ca/referenc/db0007.htm
HerStory, Persons’ Case:
http://library.usask.ca/herstory/person.html
CBC History, Voices of Discontent, Extending the Vote:
http://history.cbc.ca/history/?MIval=EpisContent.html
&series_id=1&episode_id=12&chapter_id=3&page_id=1&lang=E
Canadian Encyclopedia, Henrietta Muir Edwards: http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm
?PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=J0002546&mState=1
Canadian Encyclopedia, Emily Murphy:
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?
PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=J0005529
Canadian Encyclopedia, Louise McKinney:
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?
PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=J0004959&mState=1
Canadian Encyclopedia, Irene Parlby:
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm
?PgNm=TCE&TCE_Version=J&ArticleId=A0006100&mState=1
CBC History, Voices of Discontent, The Winnipeg General Strike:
http://history.cbc.ca/history/?MIval=EpisContent.html
&lang=E&series_id=1&episode_id=12&chapter_id=3&page_id=2#top
National Archives of Canada, The Canadian West, Songbook published by the Industrial Workers of the World:
http://www.archives.ca/05/0529/052930/05293046_e.html
Manitoba Museum:
http://www.manitobamuseum.ca/
Virtual Tour of the Manitoba Museum Urban Gallery: http://www.manitobamuseum.mb.ca/mu_gallery_tour.html#
Canadian Encyclopedia, Winnipeg General Strike:
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm
?PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=J0008649&mState=1
Timelinks, J.S. Woodsworth:
http://timelinks.merlin.mb.ca/referenc/db0031.htm
National Archives of Canada, The Canadian West, Bill of Indictment against J.S. Woodsworth:
http://www.archives.ca/05/0529/052930/05293044_e.html
Canadian Encyclopedia, James Woodsworth:
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm
?PgNm=TCE&TCE_Version=A&ArticleId=A0008704&mState=1
6.2.2 APPLYING STRATEGIES
HerStory, Suffrage: The Women’s Parliament:
http://library.usask.ca/herstory/woparl.html
Timelinks, Nellie McClung:
http://timelinks.merlin.mb.ca/referenc/db0003.htm
Canada’s Digital Collections, The Famous Five, Reasons cited for/against granting women the vote:
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/famous5/achievements/suffrage02.html#
Learning Experience
6.2.3
Depression
6.2.3 ACTIVATING STRATEGIES
Images Canada, Keyword “Depression”:
http://www.imagescanada.ca/r1-115-e.php
?kwf=TRUE&kwq=Depression+&interval=6&x=23&y=3
Canadian Encyclopedia, The Great Depression:
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm
?PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=J0003425&mState=1
University of Calgary, Labour Agitation in the Interwar Period:
http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/calgary/
labouragitation.html#onottawalinks
Manitobia: Life and Times:
http://manitobia.ca/cocoon/launch/en/themesSelectionPage
6.2.3 ACQUIRING STRATEGIES
Museum of Civilization, Canadian Labour History, The Great Depression:
http://www.civilization.ca/hist/labour/labh25e.html
A Brief Canadian History, The Great Depression:
http://www.macleod9.com/music/tgdbrief.html
CBC, Canada, A People’s History, Canadians Suffer:
http://history.cbc.ca/history/?MIval=Section.html
&series_id=1&episode_id=13&chapter_id=1&lang=E
http://www.macleod9.com/music/tgdbrief.html
CBC, Canada, A People’s History, Jobless Army:
http://history.cbc.ca/history/?MIval=EpisContent.html
&series_id=1&episode_id=13&chapter_id=1&page_id=1&lang=E
http://www.macleod9.com/music/tgdbrief.html
CBC, Canada, A People’s History, The Dust Bowl:
http://history.cbc.ca/history/?MIval=EpisContent&
series_id=1&episode_id=13&chapter_id=1&page_id=2&lang=E
Schoolnet, The Great Depression of Canada:
http://www.yesnet.yk.ca/schools/projects/
canadianhistory/depression/depression.html
(school project website)
Canadian Encyclopedia, Unemployment Relief Camps:
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm
?PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=J0008204
Manitobia: Life and Times:
http://manitobia.ca/cocoon/launch/en/themesSelectionPage
CBC, Canada, A People’s History, Episode 13: Hard Times - 1929 to 1940:
http://history.cbc.ca/history/?MIval=/EpisHome.html&episode_id=13&lang=E
Manitoba Archives Edukit, Brother Can You Spare a Dime:
http://www.mbarchives.mb.ca/edukit/
Historica, The Prime Ministers of Canada:
http://www.primeministers.ca/index.php
National Library of Canada, Prime Ministers:
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/primeministers/index-e.html
National Library of Canada, Prime Ministers for Kids:
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/primeministers/kids/index-e.html
National Library of Canada, Prime Ministers for Kids, Facts:
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/primeministers/kids/h9-3000-e.html
American Popular Music in the 1930s
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ug03/Jukebox/front.html
Manitoba Archives Edukit, Brother Can You Spare a Dime; Fads, Fun and Leisure:
http://www.mbarchives.mb.ca/edukit/
(audio of various Depression era songs)
The On-to-Ottawa Trek:
http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/calgary/onottawa.html
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (1932): http://history.cbc.ca/history/?MIval=EpisContent.html
&series_id=1&episode_id=13&chapter_id=3&page_id=1&lang=E
CBC Archives, A New Brand of Social Democracy:
http://archives.cbc.ca/400d.asp?id=1-73-851-4955
(J.S. Woodsworth and the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation)
Museum of Civilization, Labour History, The Dark Years: http://www.civilization.ca/hist/labour/labv29e.html
(speech by Tommy Douglas (1944), “Mouseland,” refers to the Depression years)
6.2.3 APPLYING STRATEGIES
No website recommended
Learning Experience
6.2.4
World War ll
6.2.4 ACTIVATING STRATEGIES
Canadian Heritage Galleries, World War II at Home, 1939 – 1941:
http://www.canadianheritage.org/galleries/warsbattlesrebellions1200.htm
#WWII:%20At%20Home:%201939-1941
Canadian Heritage Galleries, World War II at Home, 1942:
http://www.canadianheritage.org/galleries/warsbattlesrebellions1300.htm
#WWII:%20At%20Home:%201942
Canadian Heritage Galleries, World War II at Home, 1943 – 1945:
http://www.canadianheritage.org/galleries/warsbattlesrebellions1400.htm
#WWII:%20At%20Home:%201943-1945
Canadian Heritage Galleries, World War II Abroad, 1936 – 1943:
http://www.canadianheritage.org/galleries/warsbattlesrebellions1600.htm
#WWII:%20Abroad:%201936-1943
Canadian Heritage Galleries, World War II Abroad, 1944:
http://www.canadianheritage.org/galleries/warsbattlesrebellions1700.htm
#WWII:%20Abroad:%201944
Canadian Heritage Galleries, World War II Abroad, 1945:
http://www.canadianheritage.org/galleries/warsbattlesrebellions1800.htm
#WWII:%20Abroad:%201945
Thematic Unit: Beginning Holocaust Studies
http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/activity/35plan/BEGIN.htm
Hope Site, The Web’s Centre for Holocaust Education, “Remember”:
http://www.hopesite.ca/remember/remember_toc.html
Hope Site, The Web’s Centre for Holocaust Education, Children of the Holocaust:
http://www.hopesite.ca/remember/experiences/children_links.html
Holocaust Teacher Resource Centre
http://www.holocaust-trc.org/lesson.htm
http://webtech.kennesaw.edu/jcheek3/holocaust.htm
A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust
http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/timeline/timeline.htm
Children of the Holocaust
http://www.adl.org/children_holocaust/childrenmain1.asp
Canadian Heritage Galleries, World War II Posters:
http://www.canadianheritage.org/galleries/warsbattlesrebellions1500.htm
#At%20Home:%20Posters
6.2.4 ACQUIRING STRATEGIES
Veterans’ Affairs Canada, Canada Remembers, Second World War, The War Begins:
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm
?source=history/secondwar/canada2/warbeg
Remembrances: Canada and the Second World War:
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Militaris/eng/e_intro/e_intro1.html
Museum of Civilization, Canvas of War, Map
http://www.civilization.ca/cwm/canvas/2/images/cwmap03.jpg
Veterans’ Affairs Canada, Canada Remembers, Canada and the Second World War:
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm
?source=history/secondwar/Canada2
CBC Archives, War and Conflict
http://archives.cbc.ca/200b.asp?id=1-71
WW II Newspapers:
http://www.geocities.com/wwiinews/wwiinews.html
Canada’s Digital Collections, Courage Remembered:
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/courage/splash.html
Media Awareness Network, Web Awareness Canada:
http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/
special_initiatives/web_awareness/
Manitoba Education Diversity and Equity: The Holocaust
http://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/ks4/cur/multic/holocaust.html
Thematic Unit: Beginning Holocaust Studies
http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/activity/35plan/BEGIN.htm
Hope Site, The Web’s Centre for Holocaust Education (Home Page):
http://www.hopesite.ca/toc.html
War Museum, Canvas of War, Bodies in a Grave, Bergen Belsen http://www.civilization.ca/cwm/canvas/2/cwe258e.html
Holocaust Teacher Resource Centre
http://www.holocaust-trc.org/lesson.htm
Holocaust Education for Children: Lesson Plans
http://www.mindspring.com/~cleanccl/holocaustlessonplans.html
http://webtech.kennesaw.edu/jcheek3/holocaust.htm
A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust
http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/timeline/timeline.htm
Children of the Holocaust
http://www.adl.org/children_holocaust/childrenmain1.asp
Holocaust Lesson Plans: Using Children’s Literature
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/tv/tvsearch/lowest_grade=
105&highest_grade=105&term=112200000000&mode=-bread
Thematic Unit: Beginning Holocaust Studies
http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/activity/35plan/BEGIN.htm
Holocaust Education for Children: Lesson Plans
http://www.mindspring.com/~cleanccl/holocaustlessonplans.html
http://webtech.kennesaw.edu/jcheek3/holocaust.htm
A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust
http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/timeline/timeline.htm
Children of the Holocaust
http://www.adl.org/children_holocaust/childrenmain1.asp
Heritage Minutes, Pauline Vanier:
http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?ID=10215
Virtual Museums of Canada, Open Hearts, Closed Doors – The War Orphans Project
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/orphans/english/index.html
Holocaust Teacher Resource Centre
http://www.holocaust-trc.org/lesson.htm
Holocaust Education for Children: Lesson Plans
http://www.mindspring.com/~cleanccl/holocaustlessonplans.html
Thematic Unit: Beginning Holocaust Studies
http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/activity/35plan/BEGIN.htm
http://webtech.kennesaw.edu/jcheek3/holocaust.htm
A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust
http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/timeline/timeline.htm
Children of the Holocaust
http://www.adl.org/children_holocaust/childrenmain1.asp
Immigrant Voices, World War II:
http://www.canadianhistory.ca/iv/1914-1945/wwii/page2.html
Historica, The Prime Ministers of Canada:
http://www.primeministers.ca/index.php
National Library of Canada, Prime Ministers:
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/primeministers/index-e.html
National Library of Canada, Prime Ministers for Kids:
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/primeministers/kids/index-e.html
National Library of Canada, Prime Ministers for Kids, Facts:
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/primeministers/kids/h9-3000-e.html
Sir Winston Churchill, Speeches and Quotes:
http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=387
Veterans Affairs Canada, Sergeant Tommy Prince:
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm
?source=history/other/native/prince
(Note to teacher: The war medals of Sergeant Thomas Prince of Scanterbury, Manitoba are on display at the Manitoba Museum.)
Veterans Affairs Canada, Native Soldiers Foreign Battlefields
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=history/other/native
6.2.4 APPLYING STRATEGIES
Veterans Recollect, In Their Own Words, Normandy
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm
?source=feature/Normandy/norm_report/interviews
Veterans Recollect, Diaries and Letters:
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm
?source=history/secondwar/diary
Canadian Poetry, F.R. Scott, W.L.M.K.:
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/scott_fr/poem5.htm
Canadian War Museum, War Artists and information
http://www.civilization.ca/cwm/canvas/cwint01e.html
Veterans Affairs Canada, English songs popular during the Second World War:
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=collections/chorus
(includes lyrics and audio clips of World War II period songs)
Virtual Museum – Remembrances: Canada and the Second World War
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Militaris/eng/eintro/e_intro1.html
Museum of Civilization, Canvas of War, Map
http://www.civilization.ca/cwm/canvas/2/images/cwmap03.jpg
Veterans’ Affairs Canada, Canada Remembers, Canada and the Second World War:
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm
?source=history/secondwar/Canada2
CBC Archives, War and Conflict
http://archives.cbc.ca/200b.asp?id=1-71
WW II Newspapers:
http://www.geocities.com/wwiinews/wwiinews.html
Canada’s Digital Collections, Courage Remembered:
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/courage/splash.html
Hope Site, The Web’s Centre for Holocaust Education, “Remember”:
http://www.hopesite.ca/remember/remember_toc.html
Hope Site, The Web’s Centre for Holocaust Education, Children of the Holocaust:
http://www.hopesite.ca/remember/experiences/children_links.html
Holocaust Teacher Resource Centre
http://www.holocaust-trc.org/lesson.htm
Holocaust Teacher Resource Centre
http://www.holocaust-trc.org/lesson.htm
The Holocaust
http://webtech.kennesaw.edu/jcheek3/holocaust.htm
A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust
http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/timeline/timeline.htm
Children of the Holocaust
http://www.adl.org/children_holocaust/childrenmain1.asp