Social Studies/Native Studies

Canadian Museum of Civilization website. Located in Ottawa, this national museum's website includes online exhibitions, student & educator resources, and interactive games & activities.

"Africa Unchained" a blog by Emeka Okafor, a New York entrepreneur. His blog is intended to analyze and contribute "to the issues and solutions raised by George Ayittey's latest book 'Africa Unchained."

News visualizer from the Washington Post. Very cool. could be a useful tool for Senior Years teachers and students.

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.

Excellent tool for geography lessons and wherever maps are used in the classroom.

Find out how one teacher had his kids blogging by "using the multiple blog registration tool in edublogs."

An excellent discussion and description of traditional Aboriginal diets. Very interesting comparison between it and modern diets, particularly the "new age" diet rage supposedly based upon ancient Aboriginal nutrition.

Learn about history through primary documents plus how you can creatively introduce this topic to children in the classroom. Included on this blog are tips on some web2 tools to help with your presentation of these said documents.

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

The Imperial History of the Middle East. A 90 second animated visualization that maps who has conquered the Middle East over the course of the last 5,000 years.