Social Studies – Professional Resources (Kindergarten)

Curriculum Overview

K-12 Alberta Education Social Studies Programs of Study – Poster

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1. Assessment
2. Current Affairs
3. Dimensions of Thinking
4. FNMI
5. Inquiry
6. Multiple Perspectives
7. General

Assessment

• Newsletter – Assessment: Linking Teaching and Learning in Alberta Social Studies
• Website – Alberta Assessment Consortium

Current Affairs

• Video – Teacher and Student Interviews on Learning Through Current Affairs

Dimensions of Thinking

Critical and Creative Thinking

• Newsletter – Critical Thinking: At the Heart of the New Social Studies Program
• Video – A Lesson on Fact and Opinion Trina’s Lesson
• Video – A Lesson on Fact and Opinion Irene’s Lesson
• Website – The Critical Thinking Consortium

Historical Thinking

• Newsletter – The Role of History and Historical Thinking in the New Social Studies Program
• Newsletter – Hidden Stories Using Digital Historical Narratives to Teach Thinking
• Website – The Historical Thinking Project: Promoting Critical Historical Literacy for the 21st Century

Social Participation as a Democratic Practice

• Newsletter – Social Participation as Democratic Practice

FNMI

• Video – Reconsidering the Universality of Nation and Nationality: Exploring Indigenous Notions of Land, Citizenship, and Nation
• Text – Aboriginal Collection
• Text – Inuit Bibliography
• Text – Oyate Resource List
• Text – Additional Aboriginal Resources
• Text – Aboriginal Perspectives Action Research Projects: A Review of Literature, May 2010
• Website – Four Directions Teachings

Inquiry

• Newsletter – Inquiry-Based Learning
• Video – Inquiry in Social Studies – Alex’s Story
• Video – Inquiry in Social Studies – A Lesson from Grade One
• Video – Inquiry in Social Studies – Kelsey’s Story
• Video – Inquiry in Social Studies

Multiple Perspectives

• Newsletter – Multiple Perspectives

General

• Website – Alberta Social Studies Council
• Text – Books of Interest