Secondary History

Welcome to Secondary History at LEARN. Browse the sections below for access to our Teacher Resources and tools and various opportunities for Professional Development. Remember to also visit our Elementary Section, the vast Societies & Territories site and Cartograf too.
New for 2020: Our Secondary History Student site is now under development here. Find student texts, our image and document collections, and activities in line with the QEP program. Social Sciences: Online Learning in a Digital Age. Browse examples of how LEARN (and other) resources can be used in an online environment. Visit this section here. |
BROWSE resource sections for specific levels and needs below!
Teaching and Learning Tools (Cycle 1, Cycle 2, HQC, etc.)
Secondary 3/4 History of Quebec & Canada
LEARN-RECITUS document collections, teaching strategies and evaluations are available via the History of Quebec & Canada resources page. Note that most of these documents are only available through links to the Communauté Histoire, a MEQ-sponsored space for Secondary 3/4 teachers and consultants. Go to page
HCE (Older Cycle 2 Program)
Note that some LESs and project packages for the older HCE program are still available. In many cases they are easily adaptable to the newer program content and can also contain valuable resources:
- Emergence of New France: Programs of colonization and a new society
Programs of colonization in New France? Was New France autonomous by 1760? Download - Demands and struggles: Liberalism and democratic ideas in colony of Quebec
How did liberal and democratic ideas contribute to our national identity? Download - An Environmental Perspective on Industrialization & Confederation
How did economic, social, political transformations affect the environment? Download(An archived of the organizers: Download
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- Population (Local and Quebec’s Population Today)
Do trends in population growth affect my local territory? Compared to other cities, the province? Download - Population (First Peoples onward)
Students decide whether or not it was worth it to immigrate to Canada, whether or not the Canadian dream was for most a reality. Download - Population (Immigration experiences. iPad workshop LES)
Officially Canada is a welcoming country in which all nationalities are welcome. Has it always been this way? Many resources on different immigrant groups. Download - Some Missing Pages and A WW1 Soldier's Story
"A project on the presence of the Black community in Quebec and Canada." Note: We were unable to import the Missing Pages section of the old site, but the book has been made available. DownloadAlso, we have created PDFs of the old learning scenario a Soldier's Story, which refers to the sections in the original book. Download
History Cycle 1 Secondary
We now have a separate page for our History Cycle 1 resources. Here you will find document packages, learning situations, and Cartograf sample maps. If you are looking for Cycle 1 GEOGRAPHY tasks, docs and scenarios they are available directly here
History Cycle 1 Secondary Go to page
Black History Resources
Not just about Black History Month! The threads of Black history in Canada are varied, often lost in the margins. LEARN consultants & partner teachers are finding useful resources to help you expand upon the QEP programs.
Black History Resources Go to page
Graphic Organizer Store House
Visit our central storehouse for various graphic organizers, many which were developed for the myriad learning scenarios and document packages elsewhere on LEARN. For convenience, we have gathered them together, and to loosely organize them around various Historical Thinking concepts, their guideposts document, and the Quebec programs' Intellectual Operations.
Graphic Organizer Store House Go to page
Evaluation Strategies and Tools
Tools and strategies to help teachers use the evaluation frameworks, monitor skills particular to the social sciences, and develop some best practices for exam situations. Note that this is where you will also find the LEARN I.O. icons and RECITUS Badges and Guides!
Evaluation Strategies and Tools Go to page
Feature: Social Justice Competencies
Lisa K. Taylor's strategies and resources (icons too!) to support curricula that frame and infuse students learning through a perspective of social justice and the active transformation of all forms of discrimination. Go to site Related: a personal (PR at LEARN) project to trace examples of counter histories that weave their way through the Quebec HQC program. Go to page
Cartograf - A LEARN-RECITUS Online Mapping Tool
Cartograf is an open-source, interactive web-based mapping and drawing application. It allows students and teachers to create and share maps, collect and analyze images, and work collaboratively on class projects!
Cartograf Go to site
Social Sciences How-Tos
Prepare for that history exam
Note: The older Quebec, titled History & Citizenship, no longer exists! That being said ... many of the exam-taking strategies mentioned in this How-To remain true!
Historical Essay: What is it?
A history essay starts with an argument or position you first form in your thesis statement
Use Intellectual Operations
Talk about your passion by using Intellectual Operations!
How to interpret a picture?
Interpreting pictures is an essential technique in the social sciences. Pictures can be either photographs, paintings, drawings, caricatures, etc.
Make a Geographic Sketch
A Geographic Sketch can be used in any subject, to deconstruct the "reality" that is represented in a landscape or in a photograph of that landscape.
Professional Learning in Social Sciences
Social Sciences Online and in a Digital Age
Follow along as new learning scenario examples are added throughout the year. With tips, tricks and tools to help you teach online and in a digital age, using LEARN’s various resources but also in response to the QEP program's approach, we are hoping this section becomes the first and best place for Social Sciences ideas that develop your (and your students') digital competency. Go to page
LEARN Blog entries for Social Sciences teachers
The LEARN blog is full of fascinating articles, all of which can contribute to your development as a teacher... and they are fun to read! Here are a few especially for us Social Sciences folk:
- Beginners No More: Social Sciences Online in a Digital Age
- Podcasts for Professional Development Go to page
- Feedback Street: Formative Assessment in History. Go to page
- Flipped History: A new approach for a new curriculum. Go to page
- History of Quebec and Canada – Planning for a new curriculum. Go to page
- Rapping Across the Curriculum. Go to page
- A Time and a Place for Elsewhere: The Role of Context... Go to page
- Geolocalize it: The global context of everything. Go to page
- iPadding… upstream! How do you manage it? Go to page
- 3 a.m. blogging, and why social sciences should be social, & public! Go to page
- Cartograf: Taking time for power mapping. Go to page
- Imagining a more meaningful and contributive future for education. Go to page
- History, reality…. and parties. Go to page
- Life stories in the classroom, and beyond! Go to page
ICT in Social Sciences
The RECIT and LEARN often promote the use of technology in the social sciences. Here are few examples:
iPads in Social Sciences (Archived from old site ) Go to site
Le RÉCIT de l'univers social offers various training sessions and site sections on technology use. Here are a few examples:
- LA RÉALITÉ VIRTUELLE
- LA CARTOGRAPHIE NUMÉRIQUE
- TABLETTE NUMÉRIQUE
- LE CROQUIS-NOTE
- APPRENDRE AVEC DES CONCEPTS
- TABLEAU NUMÉRIQUE INTERACTIF
- LES QUESTIONNAIRES INTERACTIFS
- LES JEUX SÉRIEUX
Media and Podcasts in Social Sciences
After posting the excellent blog post by Matt Russell on Podcasts for Professional Development on the LEARN main blog, we started up a section dedicated to online media for PD for the Social Sciences teacher. Go to page
Learning Communities & Professional Associations
Various associations and groups allow SocSci teachers to communicate and share, and to develop as professional learners. Here is a list of few key groups:
- Secondary 3 History Professional Community
Commununauté Histoire du Québec et du Canada. Go to site - Quebec Association of Geography Teachers and Global Educators Go to site
- L'Association Québécoise pour la didactique de l'histoire-géographie. Go to site
- Association québécoise pour l’enseignement en univers social. Go to site
Visit and join their Facebook page and group too! Go to site - Société des professeurs d'histoire du Québec. Go to site
- Le groupe des responsables de l'univers social. Go to site
MEQ (Previously MEES) Program Documents - Secondary
Below you will find various Ministry of Education program and evaluation documents for the Secondary Social Sciences domain. (Contact Paul R. if you find broken links!)
Quebec Secondary Programs in Social Sciences
The QEP program documents describe course aims, competencies to develop, and course content.
Cycle 1 History and Citizenship Education Download
Cycle 1 Geography Program Go to site Download
Cycle 2 History of Quebec and Canada Sec. 3 & 4 program Download
Cycle 2 History of the 20th Century Download
Cycle 2 Cultural Geography Download
Cycle 2 Financial Education Program Download
Cycle 2 Contemporary World Go to site (Or view PDFs for Four credits
Two credits
Note that the Ministry (MEES) Programs of Study page, where you will find these "General Education" Secondary School Programs and older programs too, is now online here: Go to site
Progression/Precision of Learning documents
Cycle 1 History & Citizenship Go to site
Cycle 1 Geography Go to site
Cycle 2 Contemporary world Go to site (Or view PDF's for Four credits or Two credits)
History of Quebec & Canada. (See instead "knowledge" within the program Download)
Evaluation Frameworks
Below are links to the individual evaluation frameworks. You can also visit the main MEES site and browse by subject to review them Go to site
Cycle 1 and 2 - History & Citizenship Education Download
Cycle 2 (New) History of Québec and Canada program Download
(Older) History & Citizenship Education framework Download
Cycle 1 Geography framework Go to site (Or Download
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Contemporary World online version Go to site (Or Download
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Financial Education Go to site (Or Download
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BAMD: MEES approved books site
Bureau d'approbation du matériel didactique
MEES sample "Document files" from training sessions
1608 and 1760 - Document File: Cities in Canada
1840-1896 - Document File: Socio-cultural expression
1896 to 1945 - Document File: Education and technical training
1896-present - Document File: Challenging capitalism
1945-present - Document file: Language issue
1980-present - Document File: Information Era
Origins to present - Document File: Inuit nation
MEES "Trial models" from training sessions
Migrations in Québec (Trial Model)
The National Policy and Canada’s Economic Autonomy (Trial Model)
Forms of Nationalism in Canada (Trial Model)
The Quiet Revolution: Disruption or Continuity? (Trial model)
Devitalization of Québec’s Rural Communities (Trial Model)
Women’s Right to Vote (Trial Model)
Indian Residential Schools in Québec (Trial Model)
Contacts in Social Sciences
Paul Rombough
My main dossiers at LEARN include:
Social Sciences
Ethics and Religious Culture
Physical Education and Health
Education for Reconciliation
Sexuality Education
Ed4Rec
Some Twitter folks worth following
Paul Rombough LEARN @paulrombo
Matt Russell WQSB @historyrussell
Craig Bullett RECIT @RECIT4ESSB
Dan Hedges SWLSB @dhedgegrove
Joan Zachariou LBPSB @SSLBPSB
Kesi Walters CQSB @KesiWalters
Steve Quirion RÉCITUS @recitus
Maude Labonté RÉCITUS @MaudeLab