Category: Social Science
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French Reading + Social Studies with “des traditions qui rassemblent”
I just found out about this contest today and it ends … tomorrow. So we will do a blitz of French reading activities over the next day and a half 🙂 We can’t fully participate as it’s one entry per day but I am hoping that the activities don’t disappear once the contest ends because…
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Récit resources for Social Sciences
(**edit – page updated to fix a broken link Sept 1, 2022**) When learning from home, a lot of our learning and production happens digitally so the resources created by the Récit (basically a network of educators collaborating on digital resources for learning in Quebec) are super helpful. They are aligned with the Quebec Education…
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Creating maps in Minecraft
The beginning of the Social Studies workbook we received from the school before Jack left for homeschooling is all about Quebec geography. So Jack is building maps in Minecraft. His first map is really a map. He is recreating the outline of a map of Quebec with Minecraft blocks and he has to label different…
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Warrior Kids Podcast
This podcast is about all things Indigenous! Our goal is to educate Indigenous and non-Indigenous kids, together. Pam Palmater, Mi’kmaq lawyer, professor, activist and politician from Mi’kma’ki, New Brunswick, Canada and the host of the podcast We started to listen to the Warrior Kids Podcast today while Jack is painting, I am working on a…
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Canadian Geographic Online Classroom
**Note – this resource no longer exists, unfortunately. It was quite wonderful. Instead, you can check out the Canadian Geographic educator resources here. Canadian Geographic has created an online classroom to help schools and families with home and virtual schooling. It is a wonderful resource and includes Indigenous perspectives in their more recent resources. We…
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Indigenous Curriculum
The social studies workbook Jack’s school gave us offers a very limited view of the history of Quebec and Canada, with a focus on settler stories and settler descriptions of the land. We will be using the workbook as a way to compare stories. It will form the basis of the timeline of history and…
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The Plains of Abraham
The Canadian government developed a Minecraft map with resource pack and skins about the Plains of Abraham, 1759. Jack installed it the other day and it is a great way for him to explore the landscape before we start to learn about it. He even helped a soldier out during his first time playing with…