Social Studies 11

Web-Links

This course is divided into three distinct sections, so links are arranged accordingly. A General heading is also given for those links that address more than one of these sections.

Please let me know if any of these sites no longer work. I will delete or replace dead links.

Part 1 – Ministry of Education Site:

All the available information about the new Social Studies 11 provincial examination (practice run in Spring 2004; implementation in 2004-05 school year) can be found at http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/exams/specs/pdfs/ss11_full_specs.pdf

Part 2 – General:

The British Columbia Social Studies Teachers’ Association maintains a resource page at http://www.bctf.ca/BCSSTA/gr11.shtml

Everything you could ever want to know about Canada can be found at Canadiana at http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/clamen/misc/Canadiana/README.html

The North Vancouver District Library is at http://www.nvdpl.north-van.bc.ca/

Canadiana, a Canadian encyclopedia, can be found at http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?Params=A1

The World Book Online encyclopedia is at http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/Home

The Atlas of Canada is available online at http://atlas.gc.ca/site/english/index.html

Find world newspapers online at the University of North Carolina site at http://library.uncg.edu/news/ or world-newspapers.com at http://www.world-newspapers.com/ or at the Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org/div/news/

Undoubtedly the best site for political cartoons is maintained by Daryl Cagle. Find US, Canadian and World cartoons, updated daily, at http://cagle.slate.msn.com//

Many old books are available through Project Gutenberg, which is trying to put all great works of the past that are out of copyright online. This involves historical material. Go to the index page at: http://www.promo.net/pg/ and type in the author or title to see if the work you are interested in is there.

Part 3 – Geography

See the Annenberg/CPB site for Video on Demand of the series Human Geography; People, Places and Change at: http://www.learner.org/resources/series85.html#program_descriptions

Various United Nations Organizations present a wealth of information that is invaluable for this section of the course. Some of these are:

The Food and Agricultural Organization: http://www.fao.org/

The World Health Organization: http://www.who.int/en/

The United Nations Development Programme: http://www.undp.org/

and, in particular, its Human Development Report: http://www.undp.org/hdr2003/

To find links to almost any Non Governmental Organization involved in addressing global problems, use the United Nations Organization’s “Global Issues; UN & Partnerships” page http://www.un.org/partners/civil_society/ngo/ngoindex.htm

Statistics Canada has a wealth of demographic information at http://www.statcan.ca/start.html

The United States Census Bureau presents data on all countries of the world and its International Database material can be accessed at http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/world.html

Calculate your ecological footprint by taking the quiz at Redefining Progress: http://www.lead.org/leadnet/footprint/intro.htm or use the quiz from Mountain Equipment Co-op: http://www.lead.org/leadnet/footprint/intro.htm or use the one from Best Foot Forward at http://www.lead.org/leadnet/footprint/intro.htm

Good material is available at The Economist magazine http://www.economist.com/ , including its annual “Big Mac Index” for calculating purchasing power parity, which can be accessed by using the online magazine’s search function (but you have to pay for it if it isn’t in the current issue – the mid-January issue).

Transparency International is an organization devoted to uncovering corruption world-wide. Access its material at http://www.transparency.org/

The World Bank Group presents global data on its site at http://www.worldbank.org/

All kinds of international organizations can be accessed through the links page of the PARIS21 organization (associated with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development), at http://www.paris21.org/htm/useful_links.htm

The OECD main page is at: http://www.oecd.org/home/

Water use issues are dealt with at Waternet’s Water and Conflict page: http://waternet.rug.ac.be/ -- also look at the Water Web Consortium’s home page at http://www.waterweb.org/

The PBS program Nova presented an interesting show on global warming and accompanied it with supporting material on the web. Go to “What’s Up With the Weather” at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/warming/

Recycling is a global issue handled locally. Find out about North Shore recycling at http://www.nsrp.bc.ca/

Investigate “sustainability” through the links provided at the “Sustainability” links page of WebRing http://n.webring.com/hub?ring=sustainability . Make sure you also look at the World Wide Web Virtual Library page on “Sustainable Development” at http://www.ulb.ac.be/ceese/meta/sustvl.html .

Canadian international development aid is funneled through an agency called the Canadian International Development Agency. Its home page is at http://w3.acdi-cida.gc.ca/INDEX-E.HTM

Part 4 – Government

Probably the best source for all things political is at ITP Nelson’s Government and Politics on the Web site at http://polisci.nelson.com/introgovt.html

Connect to various Canadian government sites through District 44’s link page at http://www.nvsd44.bc.ca/NVSD_NG/resources/res_govsites.asp

Take the quiz on the Political Compass web-site to find where you stand on the political spectrum http://www.politicalcompass.org/

The Federal Government of Canada maintains an index page that links to governments at all levels in Canada. Find it at http://cgii.gc.ca/index-e.html

Simon Fraser University’s Political Science Department maintains a links page on Canadian government at http://www.sfu.ca/~aheard/cangovt.html

The National Library of Canada maintains a links page about Canadian http://www.campusaccess.com/campus_web/resource/r3ref_governmentlinks.htmgovernment at http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/8/4/index-e.html

Campusaccess.com has a useful links page at http://www.campusaccess.com/campus_web/resource/r3ref_governmentlinks.htm

Part 5 – History

One of the best sources of World History Primary Documents is at Paul Halsall’s Modern History Sourcebook at http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html

Tennessee Tech University has links to much interesting material about the study of history and links to historical material at http://www.tntech.edu/history/

Global history links can be found at the World Wide Virtual Library; History: Central Catalogue at http://www.ku.edu/history/VL/

A links page with ratings can be found at The Best of History Web Sites “20^th Century” Page at http://www.besthistorysites.net/20thCentury_WWI.shtml

The Canadian History Portal links to wide ranging resources on Canadian history at http://www.canadianhistory.ca/en/index.html

Another hugely useful Canadian links page is Canadian History on the Web: http://members.rogers.com/dneylan/hisdoc.html

Yet another handy links page is Canlinks’ “History” page at http://lucking.net/canlinks/

Also try the webclasscanada site for good historical overview material at http://www.webclasscanada.ca/ The questions that come up can be quirky or thought provoking. The links on each page are quite good. Click on the resources button of the start page to access excellent material.

Grade 12 (Canadian) History Internet Resources for High School Teachers in Saskatchewan is a links page covering Canada in the 20^th century and more: http://duke.usask.ca/~debrou/grade12.htm

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation archives, containing radio and television clips, can be accessed at http://archives.cbc.ca/index.asp?IDLan=1

An online learning page that connects researchers with useful documentary and image materials is at the Canada Channel at http://207.61.100.164/cindex.html

The World History Compass is a useful gateway to world history materials at http://www.worldhistorycompass.com/

What You Need to Know About’s Canada Online site has an index page on “Canadian Women in History”. Track the changes through the sites listed at: http://canadaonline.about.com/cs/women/index.htm

The CBC series Canada; A People’s History has a web page to support it with supplemental material. Access it at: http://history.cbc.ca/

Almost anything of interest about the Victorian age can be found at The Victorian Literary Studies Archives Victorian Web Sites pate at http://victorian.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/sites/links.html

The British Columbia Archives maintains a wonderful site about this province in their Timemachine at BC Archives Timemachine at

http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/exhibits/timemach/main.htm

The National Archives of Canada has wonderful national resources at http://www.archives.ca/08/08_e.html

The National Library of Canada also maintains a fabulous collection of Canadian historical material at http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/history/index-e.html

The best source of World War I material on the Internet is Trenches on the Web found at http://www.worldwar1.com/

The Canadian Great War Homepage is also a good source of material at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ww1can/

A controversial series of documentary programmes, called The Valour and the Horror, was shown on CBC television. The web resources produced to support it are at http://www.valourandhorror.com/

Indian Treaties can be found at http://collections.ic.gc.ca/treaties/code/

The Aboriginal Canada Portal maintains a “Claims and Treaties” page at http://www.aboriginalcanada.gc.ca/abdt/interface/interface2.nsf/engdocBasic/3.html

Take a look at a page on the Great Depression prepared by grade 11 students at Porter Creek Secondary School in the Yukon: http://www.yesnet.yk.ca/schools/projects/canadianhistory/depression/depression.html

Read and hear about the Great Depression in the Canadian Museum of Civilizations pages, starting at http://www.civilization.ca/hist/labour/labh25e.html

What You Need to Know About’s Canada Online site has an index page on “Canadian Women in World War II”. Link from here to fascinating material about how the role of women changed in Canada as a result of the war effort: http://canadaonline.about.com/cs/canadawomenww2/index.htm

The Canadian Legion and the Virtual Museum of Canada have excellent resources available at Remembrances: Canada and the Second World War. Go to: http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Militaris/ Make use of the links accessed through the resources button on the bottom of each page. Review by using the trivia and games material.