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Social Studies

GENERAL

 
Read, Write, Think:  Interactive Timeline Activity
 
 

QUEENSBOROUGH

Google Maps (enter in an address and get a satellite view – try to zoom in)

City of New Westminster:

 Photo Gallery (click on Queensborough)

Archives (search for Queensborough)

Ryall Park History (PDF)

New Parks of Queensborough

The Dykes of Queensborough (PDF)

New Westminster's Neighbourhoods Historical Context Statements:  Queensborough (PDF)

Queensborough Residential Inventory (PDF)

Ecological Inventory of Queensborough (PDF)

New Westminster: Parks & Recreation: Queensborough Community Center

New Westminster Architecture: Queensborough

 

 

 

 

FIRST NATIONS

Coastal First Nations

SFU Museum of Archaelogy and Ethnology

Journey Into Time Immemorial:  based on the story of the Xá:ytem Longhouse in Mission, BC

Northwest Coast Art, A Visual Introduction

Northwest Coast Art

Rock Art (Nanaimo, Petroglyph Park and Galiano Island)

Totem Pole Virtual Gallery

Northwest Coast Totem Poles

Wood, Bone, & Stone Tool Galleries

 

Haida

Library and Archives of Canada:  The Kids' Site of Canadian Settlement

SFU Museum of Archaelogy and EthnologyHuron, Haida and Inuit Houses:  Haida 

Canadian Museum of Civilization:  The Haida:  Children of Eagle and Raven

Potlatch

BC Archives Time Machine:  First Nations:  Potlatch

Peabody Museum:  Gifting and Feasting in the Northwest Coast Potlatch

Canadian Museum of Civilization Tsimshian Prehistory:  Society and Culture:  Wealth and Rank:  Feasts and Potlatches

School District 52:  Connecting Traditions:  Explore Tsimshian Pre-Contact LifeFirst, click on Village Life then the Longhouse then Society the House Groups, Trade and Warfare, Crests and the Chief’s House, and then Feasts.

 

Various Groups

SFU Museum of Archaelogy and Ethnology: Huron, Haida and Inuit Houses

Carnegie Museum of Natural History:  American Indians of the Natural World contains information on the Tlingit, Iroquois, Hopi, and Lakota (Western Sioux).

 

EXPLORERS

Pathfinders & Passageways:  The Exploration of Canada

Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage:  Exploration and Settlement

Canadian Museum of Civilization: Virtual Museum of New France:  The Explorers
 

 Vikings

Smithsonian:  Vikings:  The North Atlantic Saga

Canadian Museum of Civilization:  Viking Fact Sheet

 

Captain James Cook

National Maritime Museum:  Captain James Cook

National Maritime Museum:  William Hodges 1744-1797:  The Art of Exploration

Natural History Museum:  The Endeavour Botanical Illustrations

BBC:  Endeavour Virtual Tour and a History of Navigation (Interactive)

   

Samuel de Champlain

American Treasures of the Library of Congress:  Samuel de Champlain's 1607 Map

     

Sir John Franklin

Passageways:  Tales of Adventures for Young Explorers:  Sir John Franklin
Australian Government:  John and Lady Franklin
National Maritime Museum:  Sir John Franklin and Coping with the Arctic Then and Now
Franklin in the Public Eye (primary documents)

Canadian Geographic:
 
Sir John Franklin Expedition

 

Henry Hudson

PBS:  Empire of the Bay:  Henry Hudson

 

Ferdinand Magellan

National Maritime Museum:  Ferdinand Magellan
 

HOLIDAYS

Government of Canada:  List of Public Holidays

University of Victoria:  Faculty of Education:  Chinese New Year

History Channel:  The History of Valentine's Day

 

MAPPING

BC Maps

Canadain Geographic 

CG Kids Atlas and CG Kids Map Puzzle

TVO Kids:  Canada's Treasure Trek  (mapping activity)

TVO Kids:  Globequest (world mapping activity)

National Geographic

Xpeditions:  Atlas and Xpedition Hall

Tools for Adventure:  Map Games

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 









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