Grades ECS - 3

• Niitsitapiisini: Our Way of Life: the Story of the Blackfoot People -
  http://www.glenbow.org/blackfoot/
• Canadian Geographic Kids Atlas: Culture Club -
  http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/cgKidsAtlas/culture.asp
  This interactive site from Canadian Geographic provides you with videos, images, games, word search puzzles, and a quiz on the culture of Canada
• Long Ago - http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/ssla/index.html?launch=true
  Take a look at the everyday lives of pioneers who settled in the Prairie Provinces. You can listen, watch and learn all about how these pioneers lived:
• The Kid’s Site of Canadian Settlement -
  http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/settlement/kids/021013-1003-e.html
  1. Log Cabin Scavenger Hunt: help a girl from one hundred years ago find some objects that she lost
  2. Design Your Own Tipi
  3. Camp Out: Set up a Settler’s camp site
  4. Sod House Living: Plug the leaks in a sod house roof by answering questions correctly
• Kayak: Canadian History Magazine for Kids - http://www.historysociety.ca/kayak/
• Wired for Words - http://www.wiredforwords.com/wiredforwords.html
  Online Calgary Book Club for Kids
• Historica: Your Place in History - http://www.histori.ca/default.do?page=.tl_games
  Online Games and Activities about Canadian History
• Letters from the Trunk - http://www.ataoc.ca/archives/main.html
  Visit a virtual train station filled with photographs, newspapers, posters and recordings that provides evidence of the lives and experiences of Canadian immigrants
• The Adventure Train -
  http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Trains/English/index.html
• 2Learn.ca - http://www.2learnabc.ca/
  Online resources for young learners organized by Alberta curriculum topic
• Crossroads of Culture; Canadian Museum of Civilization -
  http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/tresors/immigration/imy0000e.shtml
  Play interactive games that celebrate the diversity of our world.

• Land of the Spirits: Virtual Archaeological Dig -
  http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Spirits/English/Dig/digdown.html
• Alberta: How the West Was Young - http://www.abheritage.ca/alberta/en/index.html
  Archaeology, First Nations, Missionaries, Fur Trade, Settlers
• Niitsitapiisini: Our Way of Life: the Story of the Blackfoot People -
  http://www.glenbow.org/blackfoot/
• Alberta Aboriginal History Time line -
  http://www.royalalbertamuseum.ca/human/archaeo/aspects/timeline.htm
• The Kid’s Site of Canadian Settlement -
  http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/settlement/kids/021013-1003-e.html
• Our Roots: Canada’s Local History Online - http://www.ourroots.ca/e/
• The Budding Explorer: Samuel de Champlain -
  http://www.pc.gc.ca/apprendre-learn/jeunes-youths/sec1/eh-be/p1_E.asp
• Fingerprint Patterns for Kids - http://www.fbi.gov/kids/k5th/whatwedo3.htm
• Where is Vinland? Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History -
  http://www.canadianmysteries.ca/sites/vinland/indexen.html
  Solve the archaeological mystery of Vikings in Newfoundland
• Murder at Gold Bottom Creek -
  http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Force/en/resources/mgbc/
  You are the Mountie in charge of cracking the case in this interactive game.
• Interactive Investigator -
  http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Myst/en/game/index.phtml
  Use forensic science to solve a crime on this interactive game.
• Letters from the Trunk - http://www.ataoc.ca/archives/main.html
  Visit a virtual train station filled with photographs, newspapers, posters and recordings that provides evidence of the lives and experiences of Canadian immigrants
• The Adventure Train -
  http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Trains/English/index.html
• Kayak: Canadian History Magazine for Kids - http://www.canadashistory.ca/Kids.aspx
• Wired for Words - http://www.wiredforwords.com/wiredforwords.html
  Online Calgary Book Club for Kids
• Historica: Your Place in History - http://www.histori.ca/default.do?page=.tl_games
  Online Games and Activities about Canadian History
• 2Learn.ca - http://www.2learn.ca/kids/
  Online Resources for grades 3-6 organized by Alberta Learning Curriculum Topic
• The Youth Encyclopedia of Canada -
  http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCESubjects&Params=J1
• Pathfinders and Passageways: The Exploration of Canada (ages 8-12) - http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/206/301/lac-bac/explorers/www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/explorers/kids/index-e.html
• Are you coming to Fort Calgary for the Settling the West program? Then click this for links on your character! Settling the West - Pre-visit Character Research

Grades 7 - 9

• Alberta: How the West Was Young - http://www.abheritage.ca/alberta/en/index.html
  Archaeology, First Nations, Missionaries, Fur Trade, Settlers
• Railways and Immigration -
  http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/ssric/index.html?launch=true
  This interactive map of Canada (with overlays presenting Aboriginal cultural environments, Aboriginal treaty boundaries, major population centers and geographic features) is accompanied by a timeline slider (1867–1914) with corresponding changes in political boundaries, the construction of the national railway and a line graph illustrating changing immigration rates.
• "Without Fear, Favour or Affection:" Men of the North West Mounted Police -
  http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/nwmp-pcno/index-e.html
• McCord Museum of Canadian History - http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca
  Watch web movies and thematic tours on several topics including: Go West! Settling Canada’s Prairies and Forging the National Dream: Building the CPR
• A Tale of Perseverance: Chinese Immigration to Canada -
  http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-69-1433/life_society/chinese_immigration/
  View video clips from the CBC Archives.
• Pier 21: Canadian Immigration Game -
  http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Pier21/index_e.html
  You begin by selecting a country of origin from thirty countries that sent immigrants to Canada between 1928 and 1971. You decide if you are a man or a woman, which ship you will sail on, do some reading, answer some questions and find out if you will be admitted to Canada.
• The Canadian West - http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/05/0529/052901_e.html
  This online exhibition explores several aspects of European arrival and settlement in the Canadian West, and provides a glimpse of those people who helped forge the new society and bring the West into Confederation.
• Crossroads of Culture: 200 Years of Canadian Immigration -
  http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/tresors/immigration/index_e.shtml
• Historica: Your Place in History - http://www.histori.ca/default.do?page=.tl_games
  Online Games and Activities about Canadian History
• The Atlas of Canada - Quizzes -
  http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/learningresources/quizzes/index.html
  Test your knowledge of Canada's geography and history
• Dictionary of Canadian Biographies Online -
  http://www.biographi.ca/index-e.html?PHPSESSID=ychzfqkvzape
• 2Learn.ca - http://www.2learn.ca/teens/default.html
  Online Resources for teens organized by Alberta learning curriculum topic
• The Youth Encyclopedia of Canada -
  http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCESubjects&Params=J1

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