Educational Resources and Materials created for They walked these streets... 

NEW TEACHING AND LEARNING RESOURCES FOR 2024/2025:

We are so excited that you are interested in having your students come and visit one or more of the memorial displays connected with the “They walked these streets…We will remember them” Project. We truly believe that this form of experiential and site-based learning really helps to bring an understanding to how our communities were affected in times of conflict during the World Wars. In addition, students can find connection to soldier’s lives and experiences because they lived on the same streets, attended the same schools, played on the same fields and attended the same churches, and community spaces that they do today. In essence, for those who don’t have any connection to a soldier, they can find a soldier to remember on remembrance day! 

Ready-made classroom activities :

I am providing here a couple of activities that you can use before, during or after your visit to the sites to support student learning, either individually or in small groups. Both activities have been provided in ENGLISH and in FRENCH.  If you decide to create some new things for your students to engage with the project, I would love to hear from you. As a high school history teacher myself, it is so wonderful to see the evidence of student learning and it is also useful for me to see as a curriculum creator, what other potential tasks could be used to connect students to the content in innovative, engaging and creative ways. Thank you in advance for sharing back some of what you do with your students.

Here are the links to the two documents. I have made them as a forced copy for you to download and use:

Both activites have been provided in ENGLISH and IN FRENCH. 

This activity is best for students in Grades 7-12: 

EXPLORE IT! Scavenger Fact-Finding Hunt into the life and service of one of the soldiers in your community, who walked these streets!  

This activity is best for students in Grades 4-8

Find them and name their names (english) À la découverte de la vie d’un soldat canadien 

Where are the sites for 2025?

The 13 memorial sites have been set up close to schools so that they are within walking distance. That was intentional, so that you can have your students participate and engage with the project and memorials.

For your quick reference:

• For Keele Street P.S.and Indian Road Public Schools, the closest Memorial is at #6 on the map- The fence of St. Martin-in-the-Fields.

• For Annette Street P.S.,  the closest Memorial is at #5 on the map- Annette Public Library

• For Runnymede P.S, Western Technical School and Ursula Franklin Academy, the closest Memorials are at #1 -104 Colbeck Street and #5-the lawn of Runnymede United Church and #2-285 Durie Street (just north of Bloor Street)

• For Humberside C.I.,  the closest Memorial is at #6 on the map- Annette Public Library

• For Humbercrest P.S. and Runnymede C.I.,  the closest Memorial is at #8 on the map- The lawn of Humbercrest United Church

• For Swansea P.S.,  the closest Memorials are at #11-Swansea Town Hall, #10-Morningside-High Park Presbyterian Church lawn, and #4-St. Olave's Anglican Church

• For King George P.S.,  the closest Memorial is at #7 on the map- The fence of Runnymede Presbyterian Church on Annette Street at Willard Avenue.

• For Western Tech and Ursula Franklin Academy,  the closest Memorials is at #6 on the map- The fence of St. Martin-in-the-Fields.

• For Howard Park P.S., Fern P.S., St. Vincent De Paul Catholic School, Garden Avenue P.S. , the closest Memorial is at the Dundas Roncesvalles Peace Garden (at the intersection of Dundas Street West and Roncesvalles Avenue)

• For Perth Avenue P.S. the closest Memorial is at the Dundas Roncesvalles Peace Garden (at the intersection of Dundas Street West and Roncesvalles Avenue).

• For Bloor Collegiate Institute, the closest Memorial is on the lawn of "New" Bloor C.I. at 90 Croatia Street. 

The displays will be up starting Saturday, November 1st/Sunday, November 2nd, until sundown on Monday, November 11th, 2024/

Any Questions?

If you have any questions, please email Katy Whitfield, Project Coordinator at theywalkedthesestreets@gmail.com (Note: Katy Whitfield is a TDSB History Teacher at Bloor Collegiate, kathryn.whitfield@tdsb.on.ca)

Thank you for sharing this with your staff and communities. Hoping to see many of your classes visit these memorials, so that students will have someone to remember on Remembrance Day.

Many thanks, 

Katy Whitfield

Project Coordinator, They walked these streets… We will remember them. Remembrance Week Project 

If you are an Elementary or Secondary teacher, or a leader of a Scouting or Guiding organization and would like to learn more about the Educational Programming and/resources of this project, please e-mail Katy Whitfield at theywalkedthesestreets@gmail.com. Based on the age and grade of your student/kids you work with, Katy will suggest and share materials and resources that will support your class/group's learning about Remembrance Day and the "They walked these streets... We will remember them" project. 

These photos were taken during workshops with Elementary School students in the Toronto District School Board, 2023. All of the Pool Noodle poppies were made by students and are a key part of our remembrance day commemorative displays around the neighbourhood.