HISTORY OF QUEBEC & CANADA: Resources, documents, and more!

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The Communauté Histoire is a MEES-sponsored space for Secondary 3/4 teachers and consultants.  It is a private place to find and share resources, tools, lessons, etc.

To log in directly click to the Education-Histoire.Quebec main site:  Go to site  
If you are a secondary 3/4 teacher, you can also sign up via our English registration form

LEARN-RECITUS HQC Documents and Teaching Strategies
To more easily browse LEARN's latest document packages, and some translated RECITUS tasks and evaluations, please visit the History of Quebec & Canada main page:  Go to page

HISTORY & CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION (OLDER CYCLE 2 PROGRAM) 
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)
• 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.  Download  Also, 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 DOCUMENTS AND LEARNING SCENARIOS

We now have a separate page for our History Cycle 1  resources.
Please visit the History Cycle 1 Secondary page:    Go to page

Are you looking for Cycle 1 GEOGRAPHY tasks, docs and scenarios?
Go to page

Featured section:  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.  Go to page 

 GRAPHIC ORGANIZER COLLECTIONS

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.  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. LEARN IO icons and RECITUS Badges are available here!  Go to page  
 

SOCIAL JUSTICE COMPETENCIES AND ESSENTIAL COUNTER HISTORIES 
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 
 

LEARN's Cartograf 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! Go to site

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:

• 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

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 main MEES Programs of Study page, where you will find these  "General Education" Secondary School Education Programs and older programs, 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) 

Contemporary World online version Go to site   (Or Download) 

Financial Education  Go to site   (Or Download) 

BAMD:  MEES approved books site
Bureau d'approbation du matériel didactique

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