Learning Commons

Social Studies Resources

• Archaeology

• Dig - the archaeology magazine for kids URL
• Atlases

• A note re map resources File
• Google Maps URL
• World Atlas.com URL
• Canada

• Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada URL
• Explorers URL
• Government of Canada URL
• Industry Canada URL
• Nunavut Animal Facts URL
• Nunavut facts URL
• Nunavut Travel Guide URL
• Christmas

• The History of Christmas URL
• Christmas Around the World URL
• Country Studies

• Around the World URL
• CIA World Fact Book URL
• Lonely Planet URL
• Early Humans

• BBC - Caveman facts URL
• Could you have survived the Ice Age? URL
• Early Cave Paintings URL
• Early Humans URL
• Hominid Species URL
• Hominin Tools URL
• Human Characteristics URL
• Human Evolution & Archaeology URL
• Human Evolution Timeline URL
• Human Family Tree URL
• Human Species Facts URL
• Otzi the Iceman URL
• San Diego Museum of Man URL
• Smithsonian: What does it mean to be human URL
• Stone Age Toolkit URL
• Survival Ways URL
• Video on Homo Erectus URL
• Ways of Life and Behaviour URL
• Famous Canadians

• Canadian Scientists URL
• Explorers URL
• Newsmakers URL
• Canadian Physicians URL
• Canadian Heroines URL
• Athletes URL
• Who2? (Biography Site) URL
• First Nations

• First Nations traditional culture websites File
• Geography
  

• Global Citizenship

• Fair trade

• F is for Fairtrade URL
• Fair trade - selected products URL
• Just...fairtrade URL
• What is fairtrade? URL
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  Government

• Types of Government File
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  History - Miscellaneous

• BBC - Your Life on Earth URL
• Infoplease This Day in History URL
• On This Day in Science History URL
• The People History URL
• TIME Magazine - Best Inventions by Year URL
• Timeline of Scientific Discoveries URL
• Today in Science History URL
• Famous People who made Scientific Discoveries URL
• Map of Europe 1000 BCE to present Page
• Human Rights

• Academy of Achievement URL
• Amnesty International URL
• Black History in Canada URL
• Canadian human rights activists URL
• CBC Digital Archives - Chinese Immigration to Canada URL
• Child Labor URL
• Child Labor Coalition URL
• Free the Children URL
• Global March Against Child Labour URL
• GoodWeave URL
• Human rights organizations list URL
• International Labor Organization URL
• International Labor Rights Forum URL
• Japanese Canadian History URL
• Martin Luther King URL
• FAO URL
• UNESCO URL
• UNICEF URL
• United Nations - brief overview URL
• United Nations - official site URL
• World Health Organization URL
• Middle Ages

• About.com - Black Death URL
• About.com - Daily Life in the Middle Ages URL
• Bayeux Tapestry URL
• Biographies of Medieval and Renaissance Women URL
• Coroner's Report - the Black Death URL
• Crash Course in History - the Dark Ages (?) URL
• Medieval Castles URL
• The Crusades URL
• Development of Trade in the Middle Ages URL
• Fall of Rome (video) URL
• Fall of Rome (textual info) URL
• Medieval Castles URL
• Medieval Women URL
• The Middle Ages.Net URL
• Pests that Changed History URL
• Who was Robin Hood? URL
• Celts

• Celts in Britain URL
• Celts timeline URL
• Mr. Donn - Iron Age Celts URL
• Who were the Celts? URL
• Vikings

• BBC History - Viking Weapons and Warfare URL
• BBC Vikings URL
• Life of a Viking (video) URL
• Viking Heroes and Homes URL
• Viking Vessels and Artifacts URL
• History of the Vikings (EN) URL
• Viking History facts URL
• Les Vikings: Musée canadien de l'histoire (FR) URL
• Les Vikings: ici.radiocanada URL
• Les Vikings vidéo: Minutes des patrimoines (FR) (1 minute) URL
• Viking: Smithsonian magazine URL
• Les Vikings: Encyclopédie Larousse (FR) URL
• Les raids Vikings en Normandie URL
• Vikidia (wikipédia pour les jeunes ) FR: Les Vikings URL
• New World Exploration

• Cartier URL
• Ducksters - Columbus URL
• Ducksters - Drake URL
• Ducksters - Magellan URL
• Renaissance

• Biographies of Medieval and Renaissance Women URL
• Renaissance art museums URL
• World History: Ancient Civilizations

• Histo Map of World History File
• Timemaps (interactive historical atlas) URL
• Aztecs

• About.com - Aztec civilization URL
• Aztec History.com URL
• China

• Crash Course in History - ancient China URL
• Ducksters - ancient China URL
• Mr. Dowling - Chinese History URL
• Mr. Donn - China URL
• Egypt

• Ancient Egyptian Facts URL
• Ancient Egyptian Tombs URL
• The Ancient Egypt Site URL
• BBC - ancient Egypt URL
• British Museum URL
• Ducksters - ancient Egypt URL
• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) URL
• Égypte ancienne: avancé URL
• Encyclopédie Larousse: avancé URL
• Égypte Égypte ancienne - Vikidia, l'encyclopédie des 8-13 ans URL
• Geo Ado revue: recherche Égypte URL
• Égypte: Musée Canadien de l'histoire URL
• Égypte Eternelle URL
• Universalis: Égypte ancienne encyclopédie URL
• Les débrouillards: recherche Égypte URL
• Biblio de Montréal: Égypte ancienne URL
• Greece

• Ancient Greece URL
• Ancient Greek World URL
• BBC Primary - ancient Greece URL
• Crash Course in History - ancient Greece URL
• Ducksters - ancient Greece URL
• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) URL
• Mr. Donn - Greece URL
• India

• Ancient India Webquest URL
• BBC primary - Indus Valley URL
• Diwali festival - throwing of the colours URL
• Indian musical instruments URL
• Mr. Donn - India URL
• World Religions for Kids - Hinduism URL
• Mesopotamia

• Ancient Civilizations for Kids - Mesopotamia URL
• Crash Course in History - ancient Mesopotamia URL
• Ducksters - Mesopotamia URL
• Mr. Donn - Mesopotamia URL
• Rome

• BBC History URL
• Crash Course in History - ancient Rome URL
• Ducksters - ancient Rome URL
• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) URL
• Timemaps - ancient Rome URL
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  World Religions

• Baha'i faith URL
• Buddhism URL
• Christianity URL
• Hinduism URL
• Islam URL
• Jainism URL
• Jehovah's Witnesses URL
• Judaism URL
• Native Spirituality URL
• Paganism URL
• Sihkism URL
• Zoroastrianism URL
• Please read this first before you research a religiion File