Welcome!

I look forward to my third opportunity to share best practices and historical thinking concepts with my students this year. I am especially excited to learn my teacher candidates – your new eyes and ears and creative strategies are a continued inspiration!

For class:

Pearson Syllabus 2014 PED3183A

Assignment 1: Resource Review 2014 and for guidance –  Example, Due September 30

Day 1 Keynote Presentation

Canadian-History-Crossroads: History Symposium. Register by September 10th by emailing: educom@uottawa.ca

Poll Everywhere

Tops and Tails

Other Ways to use this activity (as generated by my PED3183A Class):

Tops & tails:

• consider what part of the quote has “more weight” or significance
• connect significant event with a famous participant
• one event, two perspectives
• connect century to quote or event
• antagonist to his/her protagonist
• two quotes that lay in opposition to one another on a single issue
• a variety of matching pairs:  two Prime Ministers, two famous Metis, two union leaders, two battles on Canadian soil etc

Quotes:

• place and rank on a timeline with both chronology and y-axis for ranking
• have students find the context in which the quote was said
• End of Unit – give examples of where the quote might have been right/wrong
• Start of Unit – students predict important issues in coming unit from the quotes

For Fun or Interest

What Teachers Make

Farewell to Carrot Cake (The Great War’s less known Contributions to society) [podcast]

500 Years of History in 2 Minutes (Wab Kinew), CBC’s 8th Fire