This project was an absolute highlight of this year for me and I think for my students. It came about with a glimmer of an idea. I was working with grade group colleagues to plan out our year with socials. They looked at our syllabus and saw immigration and both of their faces fell… “Immigration, …
This year in my social studies curriculum, I had to teach about the first contact between the First Nations and the Europeans in Canada. Ever since the new curriculum has come into effect in BC, our text books have been a bit out of date. It isn’t that this topic isn’t in the text books …