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St. Laurent: A Métis Community: Teacher's Guide

GIS in the classroom

Curriculum Information for Parents

Social Studies Field-Based Experience Guidebook

Social Studies

Websites to Support the New Curriculum

Grade 7: Cluster 2
Global Quality of Life

 

Learning Experience
7.2.1 What is the Good Life?

7.2.1 ACTIVATING STRATEGIES

No websites recommended

 

7.2.1 ACQUIRING STRATEGIES

World Bank, Poverty Net, Excerpts from the Literature of Poverty:
http://www.worldbank.org/poverty/povlit/index.htm

United Nations, CyberSchool Bus Main Page:
http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/index.asp

Free the Children:
http://www.freethechildren.com/getinvolved/educator/
(Speakers’ Bureau, or contact a local high school that is involved in supporting Free the Children projects re: education projects, child labour, child soldiers)

 

7.2.1 APPLYING STRATEGIES

The Ladybug Foundation:
www.ladybugfoundation.ca

 

Learning Experience
7.2.2 Universal Human Rights

7.2.2 ACTIVATING STRATEGIES

No websites recommended

 

7.2.2 ACQUIRING STRATEGIES

United Nations, Youth Cyber School Bus, Human Rights in Action:
http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/humanrights/index.asp
(Interactive Declaration of Human Rights, suggested activities)

United Nations, Youth Cyber School Bus, Gallery:
http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/gallery/index.asp
(drawings, photos, posters by youth around the world on global issues including racism, human rights )

Society for Manitobans with Disabilities:
http://smd.mb.ca/default.aspx

 

7.2.2 APPLYING STRATEGIES

UNICEF Voices of Youth:
http://www.unicef.org/voy/
(action projects, youth forums and online discussions)

UNICEF Canada, Global Action:
http://www.unicef.ca/
(current world issues, action projects, A World Fit for Children)

United Nations Association of Canada, News and Events, International Days and Weeks:
http://www.unac.org/en/news_events/un_days/international_days.asp

 

Learning Experience
7.2.3 Democratic Citizenship and Quality of Life

7.2.3 ACTIVATING STRATEGIES

No websites recommended

 

7.2.3 ACQUIRING STRATEGIES

Justice Canada, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms:
http://canada.justice.gc.ca/Loireg/charte/const_en.html

Canadian Heritage, Your Guide to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms:
http://www.pch.gc.ca/ddp-hrd/canada/guide/index-eng.cfm

United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Democracy and Human Rights:
http://www.un.org/en/globalissues/democracy/human_rights.shtml

United Nations, UN News Centre:
http://www.un.org/News/

Veterans’ Affairs Canada, Home Page:
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/

Veterans’ Affairs Canada, Veterans’ Week 2001, “In the Service of Peace”:
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm
?source=feature/week2001/natnews/servpeace

Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canada and Peacekeeping:
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/peacekeeping/menu-en.asp

Canadian Forces, Canada’s Peacekeeping Missions Abroad:
http://www.forces.gc.ca/site/operations/current_ops_e.asp
(map and list of current operations)

Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Peacekeeping Missions:
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/peacekeeping/missions-en.asp
(list of Canadian contributions to UN peacekeeping missions)

Peacekeeper’s Home Page, Peacekeeping Stories:
http://www.peacekeeper.ca/stories.html

 

7.2.3 APPLYING STRATEGIES

United Nations Association of Canada Toward a Culture of Peace, Projects:
http://www.unac.org/en/projects/peace/index.asp
(ideas for student projects in support of peace) 

Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Foreign Policy, Projecting Canadian Values and Culture: 
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/foreign_policy/cnd-world/chap5-en.asp

 

Learning Experience
7.2.4 Power, Wealth, and Justice

7.2.4 ACTIVATING STRATEGIES
 

Students of the World, Countries of the World GDP (November 2003):
http://www.studentsoftheworld.info/infopays/rank/PIBH2.html

United Nations Cyber School Bus, Country at a Glance:
http://cyberschoolbus.un.org/infonation/index.asp
(Select country, click on economy for GDP data)

Time Magazine, Time 100, The Most Important People of the Century:
http://www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/

 

7.2.4 ACQUIRING STRATEGIES

European Union:
http://europa.eu.int/abc/index_en.htm

CBC News:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/

Google News Canada:
http://news.google.ca/

Media Awareness Network:
http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/index.cfm

Search Engine Watch, Search Engine Strategies:
http://www.searchenginewatch.com/facts/article.php/2156021

Google Directory of Quotations:
http://directory.google.com/Top/Reference/Quotations/
(links to a number of reliable quotation sites)  

CIA The World Fact Book, search by country or by continent:
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html

United Nations Cyber School Bus, Country at a Glance:
http://cyberschoolbus.un.org/infonation/index.asp

Students of the World, Countries of the World GDP (November 2003):
http://www.studentsoftheworld.info/infopays/rank/PIBH2.html

United Nations, Cyber School Bus, Info Nation:
http://cyberschoolbus.un.org/infonation/info.asp
(international comparisons)

Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Statistics Division, Food and Agriculture Atlas:
http://www.fao.org/es/ess/chartroom/gfap.asp

 

7.2.4 APPLYING STRATEGIES

Government of Canada, The Canadian Economy, Globalization:
http://canadianeconomy.gc.ca/english/economy/globalization.html

Artpolitic Political Encyclopedia, Globalization:
http://www.artpolitic.org/infopedia/gl/Globalization.html

The World Bank Group, Globalization:
http://www1.worldbank.org/economicpolicy/globalization/

International Monetary Fund, What is Globalization:
http://www.imf.org/external/np/exr/ib/2000/041200.htm#II

International Forum on Globalization:
http://www.ifg.org/analysis.htm

 

Learning Experience
7.2.5 Global Cooperation

7.2.5 ACTIVATING STRATEGIES

The Children of the Earth series provides an accurate picture of quality of life and local human development projects in various parts of the world:
http://www.maryknollmall.org/description2.cfm?ISBN=135

The Mennonite Central Committee has produced a variety of videos about international development and social justice issues:
http://www.mcc.org/manitoba/

 

7.2.5 ACQUIRING STRATEGIES

Manitoba Council for International Cooperation (MCIC):
http://www.mcic.ca/

Mennonite Central Committee:
http://www.mcc.org/

Canadian Council for International Cooperation (CCIC):
http://www.ccic.ca/

Oxfam Canada:
http://www.oxfam.ca/

Earth Charter Initiative:
http://www.earthcharter.org/

Greenpeace:
http://www.greenpeace.org/international_en/

UNESCO:
www.UNESCO.org

UNICEF:
http://www.unicef.ca

Médecins sans frontières (Doctors without borders):
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/

Canadian International Demining Corps:
http://www.cidc.ws/CIDC-CanadianInternationalDeminingCorps.htm

Peace Corps (American):
http://www.peacecorps.gov/index.cfm?shell=learn

Plan Canada (founded as Foster Parent’s Plan in 1937):
http://www.plancanada.ca/

War Child Canada:
http://www.warchild.ca/

World Vision International:
http://www.wvi.org/wvi/wviweb.nsf

International Committee of the Red Cross:
http://www.icrc.org/eng

Canadian Red Cross:
http://www.redcross.ca

Human Rights Watch:
http://www.hrw.org/

Project Ploughshares:
http://ploughshares.ca/index.html

Free the Children:
http://www.freethechildren.org/

CUSO, Canadian University Students Overseas:
http://www.cuso.org

Union of Concerned Scientists:
http://www.ucsusa.org/

Care Canada:
http://care.ca/

Manitoba Council for International Cooperation (MCIC):
http://www.mcic.ca/

Mennonite Central Committee:
http://www.mcc.org/

Canadian Council for International Cooperation (CCIC):
http://www.ccic.ca/

Oxfam Canada:
http://www.oxfam.ca/

Earth Charter Initiative:
http://www.earthcharter.org/

Greenpeace:
http://www.greenpeace.org/international_en/

UNESCO:
www.UNESCO.org

UNICEF:
http://www.unicef.ca

Médecins sans frontières (Doctors without borders):
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/

Canadian International Demining Corps:
http://www.cidc.ws/CIDC-CanadianInternationalDeminingCorps.htm

Peace Corps (American):
http://www.peacecorps.gov/index.cfm?shell=learn

Plan Canada (founded as Foster Parent's Plan in 1937):
http://www.plancanada.ca/

War Child Canada:
http://www.warchild.ca/

World Vision International:
http://www.wvi.org

International Committee of the Red Cross:
http://www.icrc.org/eng

Canadian Red Cross:
http://www.redcross.ca

Human Rights Watch:
http://www.hrw.org/

Project Ploughshares:
http://ploughshares.ca/index.html

Free the Children:
http://www.freethechildren.org/

CUSO, Canadian University Students Overseas:
http://www.cuso.org

Union of Concerned Scientists:
http://www.ucsusa.org/

Care Canada:
http://care.ca/

The United Nations: An Introduction for Students:
http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/unintro/unintro.asp

Further Internet resources for teachers on the United Nations:
http://www.unac.org/learn/wrld/what.htm

Peace education resources from the United Nations: 
http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/peace/index.asp

Canadian Red Cross, Manitoba Office:
http://www.redcross.ca/article.asp?id=002944&tid=085

 

7.2.5 APPLYING STRATEGIES

Visit the UNESCO website, Peace Is in Our Hands, Manifesto 2000:
http://www3.unesco.org/iycp/uk/uk_sum_manifesto2000.htm