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Social Studies
Kindergarten to Grade 12
 

Websites to Support the New Curriculum

Grade 8: Cluster 1
Understanding Societies Past and Present

Learning Experience
8.1.1 What is a World View?

8.1.1 ACTIVATING STRATEGIES

York University, Reversible Image:
http://www.yorku.ca/eye/vase.htm

Detroit Institute of Arts, Ancient Art :
http://www.dia.org/collections/ancient/ancientindex.html

Louvre Museum Virtual Tour :
http://www.louvre.fr/louvrea.htm

Aegean Art:
http://www.ou.edu/finearts/art/ahi4913/aegeanhtml/aegean2.html

Berger Foundation, World Art Treasures:
http://www.bergerfoundation.ch/index.html
(select Periods slide library for slides of artwork from various historical periods)

Ancient Art and Architecture:
http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html/ancient.html

Art History, Medieval Art:
http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html/medieval.html

Art History, Ancient Art:
http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html/ancient.html

Art History, Islamic Art:
http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html/medieval/islamart.html

Art History, Renaissance and Baroque:
http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html/renbrq.html

Asian Art, Exhibitions:
http://www.asianart.com/exhibitions.html

Early Japanese Visual Arts:
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/ANCJAPAN/ART.HTM

Etruscan Art:
http://www.ou.edu/class/ahi4163/files/main.html

 

8.1.1 ACQUIRING STRATEGIES

Detroit Institute of Arts, Ancient Art:
http://www.dia.org/collections/ancient/ancientindex.html

Louvre Museum Virtual Tour:
http://www.louvre.fr/louvrea.htm

Aegean Art:
http://www.ou.edu/finearts/art/ahi4913/aegeanhtml/aegean2.html

Berger Foundation, World Art Treasures:
http://www.bergerfoundation.ch/index.html
(select Periods slide library for slides of artwork from various historical periods)

Ancient Art and Architecture:
http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html/ancient.html

Art History, Medieval Art:
http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html/medieval.html

Art History, Ancient Art:
http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html/ancient.html

Art History, Islamic Art:
http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html/medieval/islamart.html

Art History, Renaissance and Baroque:
http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html/renbrq.html

Asian Art, Exhibitions:
http://www.asianart.com/exhibitions.html

Early Japanese Visual Arts:
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/ANCJAPAN/ART.HTM

Etruscan Art:
http://www.ou.edu/class/ahi4163/files/main.html

 

8.1.1 APPLYING STRATEGIES

No websites recommended

 

Learning Experience
8.1.2 Origins of Human Societies

8.1.2 ACTIVATING STRATEGIES

Images of the cave art of Lascaux in France (about 13,000): http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/lascaux/en/

 

8.1.2 ACQUIRING STRATEGIES

Creation Myths from around the World
http://www.cs.williams.edu/~lindsey/myths/myths.html

Links to creation myths:
http://www.magictails.com/creationlinks.html

The Gods of Ancient Egypt, the Creation:
http://touregypt.net/godsofegypt/thecreation.htm

Encyclopedia Mythica:
http://www.pantheon.org/

Saskatchewan Education, Native Studies, Precontact, Teachers’ Resource Guide:
http://www.saskschools.ca/~ischool/natstudies/pdf/Precontact.pdf
(This pdf Teachers’ Resource Guide contains some examples of Aboriginal creation stories) 

CBC News: Ontario Museum drops Christian year system http://www.cbc.ca/artsCanada/stories/museum041202.print

Flints and Stones; Real Life in Prehistory
http://museums.ncl.ac.uk/flint/menu.html

Students’ Friend, Geography and History, Unit 1, Prehistory, Origins of the Earth and Humans:
http://www.studentsfriend.com/sf/part1see/unit1-1.html

Museum of Civilization, Mothers of Time, Paleolithic: 
http://www.civilization.ca/archeo/paleofig/pal00eng.html

Human Pre-History: An Exhibition:
http://users.hol.gr/~dilos/prehis/prerm3.htm

Electronic Passport to Prehistory:
http://www.mrdowling.com/602prehistory.html

PreHistory educational reference site:
http://members.aol.com/TeacherNet/PreHistory.html

 

8.1.2 APPLYING STRATEGIES

No websites recommended

 

Learning Experience
8.1.3 Societies and Civilizations

8.1.3 ACTIVATING STRATEGIES

No websites recommended

 

8.1.3 ACQUIRING STRATEGIES

No websites recommended

 

8.1.3 APPLYING STRATEGIES

No websites recommended

 

Learning Experience
8.1.4 Knowing the Past

8.1.4 ACTIVATING STRATEGIES
No websites recommended

 

8.1.4 ACQUIRING STRATEGIES

No websites recommended

 

8.1.4 APPLYING STRATEGIES

No websites recommended