Science for kids is a great interactive website for both teachers and students. This website provides different games, experiments, videos and even lesson plans and worksheets for teachers.

Youth Leading Global Change is the Movement of our Time.

Some may say this game is outdated. Yes, it is. However, this game is a great interactive way to teach geography, along with different education areas such as math and science. The game involves a lot of strategic decision making in terms of geographical concepts. If Cross Country Canada was updated with today's technology and catered to our youth today, it would remain a fun and interactive way to learn about Canada and its geography, just like many of us did back in the 90s.

Geography Today is about a better Tomorrow!

Who will be # 7, 000, 000, 000? This article discusses different population trends. It is also an awakening for the world as the population increases so to will our energy, food prices and environmental stresses. Not to mention the amount of people who already undernourished. These reasons are very important and should be discussed in social studies classes' world wide. Our schools should be educating our children about demographics and the effects it has on the many social and environmental factors.

Students are falling behind in Geography as the focus has been put on math and language in schools. However, it is very important for our youth to learn about the global economy and the many different cultures and relationships around the world. This particular article discusses statistics from the US, but the same generalizations can be made for Canada and its school focus.

Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on view this video. The video demonstrates different activities and ways on how to deal with controversial issues within social studies, such as stereotypes or racism due to past and present events.

This website is a great research tool with different ways to teach social studies using differentiated instruction. The website provides different general ideas and ideas that will help spark an interest in the students. FYI on the left side there is a toolbar, it provides different activities and knowledge regarding social studies once you select a specific grade.

Research on the relationship between a physical environment and learning confirms that the physical environment strongly influences not only academic learning but also behaviour in general. This is why we tend to see more elementary school classrooms with different visuals and tactile stimuli the students can interact with. The article provides a few different ideas on how we as teachers can get students involved and interested in social studies. The article closes by saying, beyond being educative, building a physical classroom environment is exciting when it reflects and expands upon students' understanding of themselves and the world makes them feel a part of their classroom community. Lessons about sense of community and the world will not only help students now but it will help them for many years to come.