TEACHING CANADA
For a Global Perspective

• Curriculum Resources
  
  
• Teacher Resources
  
  
• Professional Development
  
  
• For Students
  
  
• Links to Additional Resources
  
  
• Maps for Teaching Canada

Great resources...
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National Film Board films on-line:

Celebrate Leonard Cohen’s birthday by watching Ladies and Gentlemen… Mr. Leonard Cohen in the online Screening Room. This short film, by Donald Brittain and Don Owen, paints an informal portrait of the legendary Montreal poet, novelist and songwriter.

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Download a free copy
of Teaching Canada Magazine

CURRICULUM RESOURCES

• Resources for Elementary and Middle Level Frameworks - Canada - outline of resources organized by State frameworks.
  
  
• On-Line Canadian Lesson Plans/Units
  Hyperlinks to internet-published Canadian studies lessons and units Canadian
  
  
• Field Trip to Canada - without leaving the classroom - outline and examples of reproducible exhibit stations to create an Introduction to Canada unit
  
  
• Culture Focus: Acadia , Acadians--Elements of Canadian and U.S.Acadian culture, time line, who's who, curriculum connections, units on-line, web links, books.
  
  NEW resource for understanding and experiencing fracophone culture in northern Maine, Voici The Valley
  
  
• Explanatory Maps of Saint Croix & Acadia English and French text, and printable graphics in pdf format.

TEACHER RESOURCES

• Canadian Children's Literature: A Genre Approach to Reading Your Way Through Canada - PowerPoint presentation
  
  
• Public Policy Journal - scholarly articles about current issues in Canadian-American relations. Useful as teacher background, or for A.P. courses
  
  
• Lending Library - K-12 teaching resources loaned to you via the U.S.Post; call (207) 581-4225 or e-mail Betsy Arntzen to find out what is available
  
  
• K-12 Canadian Resources in the Learning Materials Center at UMaine's Fogler Library - available through interlibrary loan
  
  
• Canada Valise (photo top right) - a suitcase of resources sent classroom to classroom
  
  
• Traveling Classroom Exhibit: Three Arctic Visits (photo at right) - a trunk of resources from the Hudson Museum

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Summer Institute for K-12 Professionals
June 27-July 2, 2010

"Quebec Dimentions: Geographic, Historical and Cultural Explorations"

Printable Registration Form

For more info:
Betsy Arntzen (207)581-4225
barntzen@umit.maine.edu

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• Student web tour Self-study web tour to learn the Provinces/Territories -Their name, their shape, their flag. Appropriate for Elementary and Middle School.
  
  
• Acadian Story, We Are Here To Stay Five-part story about Maine 's Acadian history. Appropriate for Elementary and Middle School.
  
  
• Canadian Studies Web Sites  Hyperlinks to web sites, organized by study topics. Appropriate for High School.

LINKS to Resources

• K-12 Study Canada - teacher resources, text book Canada: Northern Neighbor, Summer Teachers Institutes
  
  
• Center for the Study of Canada -
  Annual Teaching Canada Magazine, text book O Canada, teacher backgrounder Introducing Canada, and other titles for teachers
  
  
• @ Canada - A Teacher's Guide - an educational tool produced by the Canadian Embassy for teachers interested in developing students' analytical skills in comparative culture study
  
  
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  Canadian-American Center Homepage

Last updated: 10 November, 2009