Open Library: BC Social Studies 9-12

Encyclopedia of Life learning; Global access to knowledge about life on Earth

 

Biodiversity articles

" EOL's Google Earth Tours give you a geographical view of the world's biodiversity. Using Google Earth's satellite imagery, these narrated video tours explore a range of topics such as migration and global research initiatives. "

Lesson plans 9-12

 

B.C. Open Textbook Collection

Quote from site, " Open textbooks are a subset of open educational resources (OER) and reside in the public domain — where copyrights have been waived by the copyright holder or copyright has expired — or have been released by the copyright holder under an open-copyright licence. The B.C. Open Textbook Collection, Canada’s first major repository of these OER, is available for all to use." read more

 

• Environment
• Economics
• Forestry
• Geography and GIS
• Geology
• History
• International Law
• Law Enforcement
• Philosophy
• Meteorology

Surviving the city - a multimedia and multidisciplinary reporting project across the globe

Quote from site, " The International Reporting Program has brought together journalists from the University of British Columbia (Canada), Nanjing University (China), Indian Institute of Journalism and New Media (India), and Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia), to collaborate on a multimedia and multidisciplinary reporting project across the globe."

" Surviving the City offers ordinary citizens the opportunity to share their struggles as cities rapidly change, and to share their efforts to cope with those challenges."

 

Japanese Canadian Photograph Collectiion - UBC Library

What can a person learn from these photos?

quote from site, " Following the declaration of war on Japan, Japanese nationals and Canadian citizens of Japanese descent were forcibly removed from what was considered to be strategic, restricted coastal areas of British Columbia in 1942. Evacuees were first dispatched to temporary facilities at Vancouver's Hastings Park and then from there relocated to areas in the B.C. interior and beyond. Families were often separated with many men being sent to road camps."

sample

Credit:

Date: 13937

Access Identifier: JCPC 34_004

Source: Original Format: University of British Columbia Library. Rare Books & Special Collections. Japanese Canadian research collection

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BC and Yukon Historical Photograph Collections -Vancouver Public Library

Multicultural Canada:

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Human Rights Watch

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" Human Rights Watch investigates and reports on abuses happening in all corners of the world. We are roughly 450 people of 70-plus nationalities who are country experts, lawyers, journalists, and others who work to protect the most at risk, from vulnerable minorities and civilians in wartime, to refugees and children in need. We direct our advocacy towards governments, armed groups and businesses, pushing them to change or enforce their laws, policies and practices. To ensure our independence, we refuse government funding and corporate ties. We partner with organizations large and small across the globe to protect embattled activists and to help hold abusers to account and bring justice to victims.".

Human Rights Education Resources

Dictionary of Canadian Biography / Dictionnaire biographique du Canada

The digital version of the bilingual Canadian classic, is a comprehensive open access tool for students and teachers. It includes 8,500 biographies and useful historical thematic units. User friendly person printing allowed.

 

• Confederation
• Responsible Government
• Sir John A. Macdonald
• From the Red River Settlement to Manitoba (1812–70)
• Sir Wilfrid Laurier
• Sir George-Étienne Cartier
• Sport
• The Fenians
• Women Winning the Right to Vote
• The Charlottetown and Quebec Conferences of 1864
• Introductory Essays of the DCB/DBC
• The Acadians
• For Educators - Exploring the Explorers
• The War of 1812
• Canada’s Wartime Prime Ministers
• The First World War

Canadian Museum for Human Rights

Short graphic introductions to topics:

The Winnipeg General Strike

The symbol of Pride (rainbow flag)

A life of activism /promotion

The Sharpeville Massacre

Five women all Canadians should know

Leading a colourful campaign ( antibullying)

Canadian civil rights trailblazers

The power of individual stories ( human rights promotion)

Peace, friendship and respect ( Two Row Wampum / Mohawk-Dutch)

Fighting for a vision of a free and democratic Russia (advocates for democracy and human rights speak)