The Freechild Project provides tools and training to young people and adults that engage children and youth in social change. For Grade 9 online resources
A free comic/storyboard creation program. No drawing skills required, just click & drag. Looks interesting. Could be a fun way for students to illustrate social studies/history/ native studies assignments or projects.
A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods shows a variety of methods for presenting information from complex diagrams to simplistic charts and everything in between. A wonderful tool for social studies/ native studies conceptualizations.
The Places We Live illustrates the living conditions of people in various parts of the world. This site focuses on slums/shantytowns with excellent photography and audio to show the human side of extreme poverty.
CSI: Cemetery Scene Investigation. Website documenting the activities of students at the Nieman Enhanced Learning Center, Shawnee Mission, Kansas, who received a grant to fund their project (titled above). The CSI project teaches students to look at cemeteries as primary sources in need of protection and preservation. For more information, see the Introduction page of the website.
Clarence Fisher's Idea Hive task for students to help their future employer find a suitable location for its head office. Students are asked to consider such variables as population statistics, climate, services, geography, and cost of living.
"Open Your Eyes" - Four DVD videos regarding the medicinal and other benefits of wild plants of the boreal forest. Features Brenda Gaudry of Barrows, Manitoba. The four videos include: "Nature" (20 mins), "Opportunity" (20 mins), "Your Future" (14 mins), and "The Living Forest" (42 mins).
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