Societies & Territories

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Timeline Game

Sample of an order 5-card timeline
This is a review game. Students are give cards with documents on the front. They try to place the cards in chronological order. The dates and information are contained on the backsides of the cards.

Competency Placemats

a placemat showing 8 different aspects students should learn about for each society as part of competency one.
Graphic organizers for all societies and competencies where students can record information about various aspects of a society.

Connect the Facts Game

A review game where teams get points by identifying the society, aspects, and by connecting big ideas and concepts.

Cycle 2 Toolkit

This is a series of bilingual teacher guides, student field journals, process planners, evaluation tools, and resource collections by ETSB Cycle 2 teachers.

Document Analysis

Document Analysis
This is a collections of organizers to support students in the analysis of different documents or sources. These are design for cycle 2 and 3 students.

Escape Rooms

Did you know you can make your own virtual escape rooms using Google Forms? Check out our rooms or connect with us to design your own!

Evaluation Rubrics

This page contains links to evaluation tools for Competencies and the Intellectual Operations. These tools can be copied and adapted to suit specific activities or Learning Evaluation Situations.

Events Timeline

This timeline contains some of the key events covered in the Geography, History and Citizenship program. Learn more about each event and where they are situated in time.

Explora Game

Explora is a review game that is played using cards and a timeline/map board that allows students to locate events and people in time and space.

History Detective Activities

Short slide activities that are great for activating curiosity, working in centers, or as exit-activities!

Identifying & Explaining Changes Game

A card game to activate Cycle 2 students competency 2 knowledge of how a society can change over time!

Image Banks

photo album
Check out our image and icon banks sorted by society and period. to support your teaching! Most of the images are under Creative Commons Licences and can be used for teacher and student productions with attribution!

Infographics

These infographics on the Intellectual Operations & types of documents can be printed for the class wall or students binders for ongoing reference!

Intellectual Operations Badge Guides

These helpful guides can be used to practice the Intellectual Operations (IOs). The Guides can be copied and adapted with new documents.

I-Spy Style Games

Students then follow the provided clues to discover the hidden objects or images we have inserted.

Mapping Activities

Cartograf 1820 mapping task
A collection of activities that can be done using Google Maps or Cartograf software.

My Life on a Timeline Activity

Learn about timelines by sequencing personal events.

Image Analysis Guide

A teachers guide to strategies for primary source image analysis.

Resources by Indigenous Nations

A curated collection of websites by Indigenous communities and/or partner organizations in Quebec that can be used to teach about each Soverign Nation's history and current realities.

Minecraft Activities

minecraft
A collection of teacher pd resources and learning activities using MinecraftEDU software.

Primary Sources Database

Primary source database
Expose students to primary sources by using our easy to search database!

SMARTBoard Activities

A collection of SMARTBoard tools and guides were produced by Canjita Gomes.

Spot-It Style Games

A quick game for students to review concepts in small groups.

Task Cards

Iroquoian Language Family, Cycle 2. Student Task Cards
Short activity cards that can be used for centers, exit cards, etc.

Text Versions of the Site

Access all the pages from sections of our website as a Google Doc. Note: for the newest updates, check the online pages.

How to make a game!

Learn how to design games or your class using these tools and the The Design Process.

Podcast Activities

podcast slide 1
Learn how to create podcasts and explore activities where students create this type of production.

Competency 2 Slide Decks

Competency 2 slide decks: how do societies change over time?
Short slide decks to quickly make comparisons based on aspects of society.

Competency 3 Slide Decks

competency 3 slide decks: how are societies similar and different?
Short slide decks to quickly make comparisons based on aspects of society.

Vocabulary Cards

A collection of slide decks, sorted by time period covered in the Progression of Learning. Each slide contains a visual and a bilingual definition of a key word or concept. They can be printed and displayed, or folded and used for games!

Vocabulary Games

Vocabulary Games
Interactive bilingual online vocabulary games that can be used to introduce a society or time period to your students, before they dive into analyzing documents.

Comic Creation

create a social sciences comic strip
Learn how to make Social Science comic strips using digital tools! This multidisciplinary project infuses Geography, History and Citizenship , language learning and the arts!

Coding Activities

Scratch Guide and challenges for students
How-tos and short coding activities where students produce content using free online Scratch software.

General Activities

Activities that can be used with multiple sections of the program and are not tied to a specific technological tool or platform mentioned above.

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