Social Studies

10 Mindful Minutes : Giving Our Children - and Ourselves - the Social and Emotional Skills to Reduce Stress and Anxiety for Healthier, Happier Lives (LSS)

Goldie Hawn with Wendy Holden


Practical, timely, relevant, and inspiring, this book is Goldie Hawn's gift to parents who want to help their children learn better and live happier lives. Inspired by the revolutionary MindUP program (developed under the auspices of the Hawn Foundation), the book offers easy-to-grasp insights from current behavioral, psychological, and neurological studies to show how our thoughts, emotions, and actions are all exquisitely interconnected.
Date Published:2011

Practical, timely, relevant, and inspiring, this book is Goldie Hawn's gift to parents who want to help their children learn better and live happier lives. Inspired by the revolutionary MindUP program (developed under the auspices of the Hawn Foundation), the book offers easy-to-grasp insights from current behavioral, psychological, and neurological studies to show how our thoughts, emotions, and actions are all exquisitely interconnected.

Date Published:2011

Adapting Curricular Materials Volume 3: Grades Six Through Eight : Adapting Language Arts, Social Studies, and Science Materials for the Inclusive Classroom (LSS)

Keith Lenz and Jean Schumaker


A Product of the ERIC/OSEP Special Project.
Date Published:1999

Ancient Civilizations Theme Set


9781426351648. This theme set program provides differentiated resources for teachers to meet the diverse needs of their students. It provides four books crafted to match the wide range of reading levels within each classroom. All books provide the same core concepts but within different contexts and at different reading levels. For students who struggle with content-area textbooks, Theme Sets provide core curriculum that is broken down, not watered down. For students who are reading on grade level, Theme Sets provide literacy and core content curriculum with appropriate challenge and support. For students who need more challenging material, Theme Sets provide literacy and core content in ways that develop students' critical thinking skills.
Date Published:2007

9781426351648. This theme set program provides differentiated resources for teachers to meet the diverse needs of their students. It provides four books crafted to match the wide range of reading levels within each classroom. All books provide the same core concepts but within different contexts and at different reading levels. For students who struggle with content-area textbooks, Theme Sets provide core curriculum that is broken down, not watered down. For students who are reading on grade level, Theme Sets provide literacy and core content curriculum with appropriate challenge and support. For students who need more challenging material, Theme Sets provide literacy and core content in ways that develop students' critical thinking skills.

Date Published:2007

Animals and Landscape of the Salish Sea and Northwest Coast : Cross Curricular Aboriginal-themed kit.

DLC, 2019.


From the Mountains to the Sea texts "each support the BC Aboriginal Learning Standards in Science and Social Studies" (Strong Nations). We All Live Here (K) We Share the Seasons (1) We are a Community (2). Animals in "Sharing our World: Animals of the Native Northwest Coast" with a puppet included in the kit: Frog, Raven, Octopus, Whale (Orca), Thunderbird, Salmon, Bear, Eagle (Eagle Bear Totem), Wolf, Hummingbird, Beaver. Animals in "Animals of the Salish Sea" with a puppet included in the kit: Frog, Raven, Octopus, Whale (Orca), Thunderbird, Salmon, Bear, Eagle (Eagle Bear Totem), Wolf, Hummingbird. Sharing our World: Animals of the Native Northwest Coast / Goodnight World: Animals of the Native Northwest / Animals of the Salish Sea / Northwest Coast Native Animals (rhyming book) / From the Mountains to the Sea K: We Live Here / From the Mountains to the Sea 1: We Share the Seasons / From the Mountains to the Sea 2: We are a Community / Learn from the Animals of the Salish Sea Colouring and Learning Book / Animals of the Salish Sea Flash Cards / Aboriginal Animal Art Puppets: Wakus the Frog / Hunter the Bear / Howler the Wolf / Joy the Hummingbird / Boom the Thunderbird / Bizzy the Beaver / Splash the Orca / Tricky the Raven / Streamer the Salmon / Sky the Eagle Bear Totem / Magic the Octopus / This kit is intended as a cross-curricular resource for K-2 classrooms with books and resources that support the following: Aboriginal Worldviews and Perspectives, Science (Animals), Social Studies (Natural Features), and Art (Authentic First Nations Puppets and artwork). The resource also provides ample opportunity to incorporate the Core Competencies. Please note: The puppets included are works of art created by First Nations and Native Arts. Please help the students to respect them as art and do not let them play with them as toys.
Date Published:2019

From the Mountains to the Sea texts "each support the BC Aboriginal Learning Standards in Science and Social Studies" (Strong Nations). We All Live Here (K) We Share the Seasons (1) We are a Community (2). Animals in "Sharing our World: Animals of the Native Northwest Coast" with a puppet included in the kit: Frog, Raven, Octopus, Whale (Orca), Thunderbird, Salmon, Bear, Eagle (Eagle Bear Totem), Wolf, Hummingbird, Beaver. Animals in "Animals of the Salish Sea" with a puppet included in the kit: Frog, Raven, Octopus, Whale (Orca), Thunderbird, Salmon, Bear, Eagle (Eagle Bear Totem), Wolf, Hummingbird. Sharing our World: Animals of the Native Northwest Coast / Goodnight World: Animals of the Native Northwest / Animals of the Salish Sea / Northwest Coast Native Animals (rhyming book) / From the Mountains to the Sea K: We Live Here / From the Mountains to the Sea 1: We Share the Seasons / From the Mountains to the Sea 2: We are a Community / Learn from the Animals of the Salish Sea Colouring and Learning Book / Animals of the Salish Sea Flash Cards / Aboriginal Animal Art Puppets: Wakus the Frog / Hunter the Bear / Howler the Wolf / Joy the Hummingbird / Boom the Thunderbird / Bizzy the Beaver / Splash the Orca / Tricky the Raven / Streamer the Salmon / Sky the Eagle Bear Totem / Magic the Octopus / This kit is intended as a cross-curricular resource for K-2 classrooms with books and resources that support the following: Aboriginal Worldviews and Perspectives, Science (Animals), Social Studies (Natural Features), and Art (Authentic First Nations Puppets and artwork). The resource also provides ample opportunity to incorporate the Core Competencies. Please note: The puppets included are works of art created by First Nations and Native Arts. Please help the students to respect them as art and do not let them play with them as toys.

Date Published:2019

Career Education : Grades 2-3


What do people do all day? -- Dreaming up -- The sharing circle -- When I grow up -- Nibi's water song -- What's my superpower? (2 copies) -- If you love __you could be (x2) -- 7 laminated images -- Lesson plans. Career Education Lit Kit - Grade TWO and THREE Self-Awareness, Community, and Exploring Possibilities HIGHLIGHTS include opportunities for students to: • learn about inukshuks and the Nunavut while considering their own super-power! • experience the sharing circle and explore the importance of water to the First Nations (great connection to Science and the water cycle) • explore architecture and build their own version All of this through lessons that integrate English Language Arts, ADST, Social Studies and.
Date Published:2023

What do people do all day? -- Dreaming up -- The sharing circle -- When I grow up -- Nibi's water song -- What's my superpower? (2 copies) -- If you love __you could be (x2) -- 7 laminated images -- Lesson plans. Career Education Lit Kit - Grade TWO and THREE Self-Awareness, Community, and Exploring Possibilities HIGHLIGHTS include opportunities for students to: • learn about inukshuks and the Nunavut while considering their own super-power! • experience the sharing circle and explore the importance of water to the First Nations (great connection to Science and the water cycle) • explore architecture and build their own version All of this through lessons that integrate English Language Arts, ADST, Social Studies and.

Date Published:2023

Differentiated Instructional Strategies for Reading in the Content Areas : (LSS)

Carolyn Chapman and Rita King


Every teacher can be a reading teacher with this user-friendly guide! This straightforward, easy-to-use handbook gives teachers creative yet substantial ideas and methods for infusing phonics, word analysis, vocabulary development, and comprehension strategies into subject-area instruction. Each chapter includes samples, suggestions, applications, assessments, and lists that you can quickly apply to your own classroom. This book will help you link reading in meaningful ways to the vocabularies of math, science, social studies, vocational studies, music and health and physical education, so all your students can improve learning and classroom achievement.
Date Published:2003

Every teacher can be a reading teacher with this user-friendly guide! This straightforward, easy-to-use handbook gives teachers creative yet substantial ideas and methods for infusing phonics, word analysis, vocabulary development, and comprehension strategies into subject-area instruction. Each chapter includes samples, suggestions, applications, assessments, and lists that you can quickly apply to your own classroom. This book will help you link reading in meaningful ways to the vocabularies of math, science, social studies, vocational studies, music and health and physical education, so all your students can improve learning and classroom achievement.

Date Published:2003

Differentiating Instruction with Menus : Social Studies (LSS)

Laurie E Westphal


This book offers teachers everything needed to create a student-centered learning environment based on choice. Provides four different types of menus that students can use to select exciting products that they will develop so teachers can assess what has been learned - instead of using a traditional worksheet format. Topics addressed include ancient history, American history, government, U.S. documents, people and geography.
Date Published:2007

This book offers teachers everything needed to create a student-centered learning environment based on choice. Provides four different types of menus that students can use to select exciting products that they will develop so teachers can assess what has been learned - instead of using a traditional worksheet format. Topics addressed include ancient history, American history, government, U.S. documents, people and geography.

Date Published:2007

Discovering Gifts in Middle School : Learning in a Caring Culture Called Tribes (LSS)

Jeanne Gibbs


This book motivates and supports middle level schools to make adolescents' developmental growth and learning needs the over-riding focus of the whole school community. The author and her colleagues present a lively synthesis of a wealth of research studies and effective practices which underlie the Tribes Learning Community development approach for middle level students and their schools. The synthesis draws upon relevant literature on cognitive theory, human resilience, multiple intelligences, democratic classroom management, cooperative learning, constructivism, social-emotional learning, multicultural-gender equity, reflective practice and authentic assessment.
Date Published:2001

This book motivates and supports middle level schools to make adolescents' developmental growth and learning needs the over-riding focus of the whole school community. The author and her colleagues present a lively synthesis of a wealth of research studies and effective practices which underlie the Tribes Learning Community development approach for middle level students and their schools. The synthesis draws upon relevant literature on cognitive theory, human resilience, multiple intelligences, democratic classroom management, cooperative learning, constructivism, social-emotional learning, multicultural-gender equity, reflective practice and authentic assessment.

Date Published:2001

English language arts units for grades 9-12

Shamburg, Christopher.


English Language Arts Units for Grades 9-12 offers a holistic and reflective approach to using technology in the high school English class. Author Christopher Shamburg presents 12 language arts units that integrate technology into compelling, standards-based lessons. Examples of these units include fanfiction and creative writing, teaching Shakespeare with film and images, using blogs and social bookmarking to facilitate independent reading projects, podcasting for a variety of purposes, and creating and sharing digital video safely and meaningfully. Easily understood by the beginner but full of challenging ideas for the technology-savvy, these exciting lesson plans will appeal to any teacher who has a curiosity about new methods and a belief that technology can reshape and re-energize the high school English Language Arts classroom. Topics include: -NETS for Students -English langauge arts -web 2.0 -podcasting -blogging.
Date Published:2008

English Language Arts Units for Grades 9-12 offers a holistic and reflective approach to using technology in the high school English class. Author Christopher Shamburg presents 12 language arts units that integrate technology into compelling, standards-based lessons. Examples of these units include fanfiction and creative writing, teaching Shakespeare with film and images, using blogs and social bookmarking to facilitate independent reading projects, podcasting for a variety of purposes, and creating and sharing digital video safely and meaningfully. Easily understood by the beginner but full of challenging ideas for the technology-savvy, these exciting lesson plans will appeal to any teacher who has a curiosity about new methods and a belief that technology can reshape and re-energize the high school English Language Arts classroom. Topics include: -NETS for Students -English langauge arts -web 2.0 -podcasting -blogging.

Date Published:2008

I am not a ghost : the Canadian Pacific Railway

Bouchard, David.


I Am Not A Ghost tells the story of a Chinese railway worker who comes to Canada to work on the Great Canadian Pacific Railway. He, like all the others, came in search of a better life but would have died if not for the benevolence of Amelia Douglas, wife of the former governor of British Columbia. A fictional but historically accurate story with an important message, I Am Not A Ghost t describes the racism and hardship that these newcomers to Canada faced and should be required reading for anyone who wants to learn about this troubling period in Canada’s history.
Date Published:2023

I Am Not A Ghost tells the story of a Chinese railway worker who comes to Canada to work on the Great Canadian Pacific Railway. He, like all the others, came in search of a better life but would have died if not for the benevolence of Amelia Douglas, wife of the former governor of British Columbia. A fictional but historically accurate story with an important message, I Am Not A Ghost t describes the racism and hardship that these newcomers to Canada faced and should be required reading for anyone who wants to learn about this troubling period in Canada’s history.

Date Published:2023

I am Sto:lo: Katherine Explores Her Heritage


Katherine McHalsie is an aboriginal girl whose family heritage is Sto:lo. She lives in Shxw'owhamel near Hope, BC and is in grade four. This book tells the story of how her teacher assigned each person in the class the job of finding out more about his or her own personal heritage. Katherine explored her aboriginal heritage through the teachings of her elders and her family. She discovered the meaning of cultural traditions and learned about the importance of the Sto:lo people's past. This book by Keith Thor Carlson with Albert McHalsie includes photographs of Katherine and her family as well as illustrations of historic events, a glossary and an index. There are 30 copies of the book in this class set.
Date Published:1998

Katherine McHalsie is an aboriginal girl whose family heritage is Sto:lo. She lives in Shxw'owhamel near Hope, BC and is in grade four. This book tells the story of how her teacher assigned each person in the class the job of finding out more about his or her own personal heritage. Katherine explored her aboriginal heritage through the teachings of her elders and her family. She discovered the meaning of cultural traditions and learned about the importance of the Sto:lo people's past. This book by Keith Thor Carlson with Albert McHalsie includes photographs of Katherine and her family as well as illustrations of historic events, a glossary and an index. There are 30 copies of the book in this class set.

Date Published:1998

It's all about thinking : Collaborating to Support All Learners in English, Social Studies and Humanities (LSS)

Faye Brownlie and Leyton Schnellert


How can we help students develop the thinking skills they need to be successful learners? How does this relate to deep learning of important concepts? How can we engage and support diverse learners in inclusive classrooms where they develop understanding and thinking skills? In this book, Faye and Leyton explore these questions and offer classroom examples to help busy teachers develop communities where all students learn.
Date Published:2009

How can we help students develop the thinking skills they need to be successful learners? How does this relate to deep learning of important concepts? How can we engage and support diverse learners in inclusive classrooms where they develop understanding and thinking skills? In this book, Faye and Leyton explore these questions and offer classroom examples to help busy teachers develop communities where all students learn.

Date Published:2009

Literacy Place for the Early Years : A Sense of Place (gr 3)


Welcome to Thaidene Nene brochure (color illustrations ; 21 cm) [16 copies] -- I Know Here book (color illustrations ; 23 cm) -- This Land is Your Land Media Key (USB) (containing videos, songs and fluent readings of materials in kit) -- A Sense of Place fluent readings (audio CD) -- A Sense of Place Inquiry Unit Guide. Framing Question: How might my life be different if I lived in a different place? -- Big Ideas: diversity identity perspective causes and consequences interrelationships -- Curriculum connections: Social studies (patterns, interrelationships) Citizenship (beliefs and values, relationships). 1 teacher guide, 16 brochures, 16 books, 1 USB, 1 audio CD. The inquiry units are designed to foster a community of thinkers, nurture students' inquiry-mindedness, and develop literacy competence. Focusing on active learning - reading, writing, drawing, talking, listening and investigating - which promotes knowledge acquisition, deep understanding, and the ability to put ideas to work in the world.
Date Published:2015

Welcome to Thaidene Nene brochure (color illustrations ; 21 cm) [16 copies] -- I Know Here book (color illustrations ; 23 cm) -- This Land is Your Land Media Key (USB) (containing videos, songs and fluent readings of materials in kit) -- A Sense of Place fluent readings (audio CD) -- A Sense of Place Inquiry Unit Guide. Framing Question: How might my life be different if I lived in a different place? -- Big Ideas: diversity identity perspective causes and consequences interrelationships -- Curriculum connections: Social studies (patterns, interrelationships) Citizenship (beliefs and values, relationships). 1 teacher guide, 16 brochures, 16 books, 1 USB, 1 audio CD. The inquiry units are designed to foster a community of thinkers, nurture students' inquiry-mindedness, and develop literacy competence. Focusing on active learning - reading, writing, drawing, talking, listening and investigating - which promotes knowledge acquisition, deep understanding, and the ability to put ideas to work in the world.

Date Published:2015

Multidisciplinary units for grades 3-5

International Society for Technology in Education.


Written by a team of curriculum experts, teacher educators, and K-12 classroom and computer-resource teachers, this book shows you how to weave technology deeply into elementary language arts, social studies, math, and science curricula. Practical and straightforward introductory essays help teachers integrate technology into different classroom configurations, discuss cooperative teaching strategies, explore problem-based learning, explain how to use the Internet effectively and responsibly, and describe the creation of assessment rubrics. They are followed by dozens of ready-to-use lesson plans keyed to technology and content area standards.
Date Published:2002

Written by a team of curriculum experts, teacher educators, and K-12 classroom and computer-resource teachers, this book shows you how to weave technology deeply into elementary language arts, social studies, math, and science curricula. Practical and straightforward introductory essays help teachers integrate technology into different classroom configurations, discuss cooperative teaching strategies, explore problem-based learning, explain how to use the Internet effectively and responsibly, and describe the creation of assessment rubrics. They are followed by dozens of ready-to-use lesson plans keyed to technology and content area standards.

Date Published:2002

Passwords Social Studies Vocabulary : Ancient Civilizations (LSS)

Curriculum Associates Inc.


This book offers lessons to support students in learning vocabulary connected to Social Studies units about Ancient Civilizations.
Date Published:2008

Passwords Social Studies Vocabulary : Medieval to Early Modern Times (LSS)

Curriculum Associates Inc.


This book offers lessons to support students in learning vocabulary connected to Social Studies units about medieval to Early Modern Times.
Date Published:2008

Reading Strategies for Social Studies : (LSS)

Stephanie Macceca


Includes CD. Filled with lessons and activities designed to improve reading skills in the Social Studies Classroom.
Date Published:2007

REWARDS Plus (Reading Excellence: Word Attack and Rate Development Strategies) : Reading Strategies Applied to Social Studies Passages: Student Workbook (For Grades 6, 7 and remedial secondary) (LSS)

Anita Archer, Mary Gleason, Vicky Vachon


This is the student workbook that should accompany the Rewards Plus: Reading Strategies applied to Social Studies Passages Teacher Guide.
Date Published:2005

REWARDS Plus (Reading Excellence: Word Attack and Rate Development Strategies) : Reading Strategies Applied to Social Studies Passages: Teacher's Guide (For Grades 6, 7 and remedial secondary) (LSS)

Anita Archer, Mary Gleason, Vicky Vachon


Rewards Plus: Reading Strategies applied to Social Studies Passages builds on the phenomenal success of the original REWARDS, the popular program designed to jump start the learning success of struggling intermediate and secondary readers. While most students make tremendous gains in decoding long words and building fluency as they participate in REWARDS, additional practice is often needed to cement these skills, to increase transfer to content area reading and to move secondary students closer to grade level. This book is the ideal follow up.
Date Published:2005

Rewards Plus: Reading Strategies applied to Social Studies Passages builds on the phenomenal success of the original REWARDS, the popular program designed to jump start the learning success of struggling intermediate and secondary readers. While most students make tremendous gains in decoding long words and building fluency as they participate in REWARDS, additional practice is often needed to cement these skills, to increase transfer to content area reading and to move secondary students closer to grade level. This book is the ideal follow up.

Date Published:2005

Righting Canada's Wrongs Inquiry Kit


**Consider ordering the DLC's Righting Canada's Wrongs Resource Guide as a companion to this set. This kit includes one of each of five of the titles in the Righting Canada's Wrongs series including: The Komagata Maru, The Chinese Head Tax, Residential Schools, Japanese Canadian Internment, and Italian Canadian Internment. Each kit also contains Inquiry Cards relating to The Chinese Head Tax and the Komagata Maru Incident. Borrow one set or all six to have enough for an entire classroom. Suitable for an intermediate audience.
Date Published:2019

**Consider ordering the DLC's Righting Canada's Wrongs Resource Guide as a companion to this set. This kit includes one of each of five of the titles in the Righting Canada's Wrongs series including: The Komagata Maru, The Chinese Head Tax, Residential Schools, Japanese Canadian Internment, and Italian Canadian Internment. Each kit also contains Inquiry Cards relating to The Chinese Head Tax and the Komagata Maru Incident. Borrow one set or all six to have enough for an entire classroom. Suitable for an intermediate audience.

Date Published:2019

Righting Canada's Wrongs : Teacher Resource Guide

Lindsay Gibson, Ilan Danjoux, and Roland Case


Authors are part of the Critical Thinking Consortium. **Consider ordering the DLC's Righting Canada's Wrongs Inquiry Kit for your students as well. In this Resource Guide you will find seven lessons that will engage your students while they learn about some of the important events in Canada's history that helped shape our current multicultural society. You will find support for teaching about Canada's past treatment of ethnic minorities and how to approach the topic of racism. As well, your students will learn about the important roles that these communities and peoples play in Canadian society.
Date Published:2016

Authors are part of the Critical Thinking Consortium. **Consider ordering the DLC's Righting Canada's Wrongs Inquiry Kit for your students as well. In this Resource Guide you will find seven lessons that will engage your students while they learn about some of the important events in Canada's history that helped shape our current multicultural society. You will find support for teaching about Canada's past treatment of ethnic minorities and how to approach the topic of racism. As well, your students will learn about the important roles that these communities and peoples play in Canadian society.

Date Published:2016

Tales from Big Spirit Graphic Novel : Literature Circle

Robertson, David Alexander, 1977-


Target audience is grades 4-6, but could also be used for older grades, especially for ELL Social Studies. The Tales from Big Spirit series consists of six graphic novels. Each novel in the collection tells the story of an Aboriginal figure who has created a lasting legacy for the history of indigenous people and for Canadian history; some of the figures are already well known and others of them deserve to be. The six novels are intended for readers in grade 4 and up, and were designed to correspond to grades 4-6 social studies curricula across Canada. Titles include: The Scout (Tommy Prince) -- The Peacemaker (Thanadelthur) -- The Rebel (Gabriel Dumont) -- The Ballad of Nancy April (Shawnadithit) -- The Poet (Pauline Johnson) -- The Chief (Mistahimaskwa (Big Bear)).
Date Published:2014

Target audience is grades 4-6, but could also be used for older grades, especially for ELL Social Studies. The Tales from Big Spirit series consists of six graphic novels. Each novel in the collection tells the story of an Aboriginal figure who has created a lasting legacy for the history of indigenous people and for Canadian history; some of the figures are already well known and others of them deserve to be. The six novels are intended for readers in grade 4 and up, and were designed to correspond to grades 4-6 social studies curricula across Canada. Titles include: The Scout (Tommy Prince) -- The Peacemaker (Thanadelthur) -- The Rebel (Gabriel Dumont) -- The Ballad of Nancy April (Shawnadithit) -- The Poet (Pauline Johnson) -- The Chief (Mistahimaskwa (Big Bear)).

Date Published:2014

We are all Connected : Literature Based Kit

District Learning Commons, 2019.


Authenticity Note: Throughout the series, books contain some authentic Indigenous artwork and images. Although the target Audience is grade 2/3, the book illustrations could support Kindergarten and grade 1 as well. Donated by the Langley Primary Teachers' Association. 8 We Are All Connected Titles: Coast Salish, Coastal Rainforests and Cougars / Haisla, Rivers and Chinook Salmon / Inuit, Tundra and Ravens / Lakota, Mixed Grasslands and Bald Eagles / Métis, Wetlands and Mallards / Nisga'a, Ponds and Leopard Frogs / Nlaka'pamux, Grasslands and Rattlesnakes / Sto:lo, Riparian Forests and Black Bears Each title covers the following curricular areas. Traditional storytelling and artwork begin each title from the focus Indigenous territory. Science: Biodiversity, classification, life cycles, food chains, food webs and connections between living and non-living things are just some of the science concepts included in each book. Social Studies: Contemporary and historical Indigenous cultural knowledge flows throughout each book. Local land forms, gatherings, harvesting practices and government are some of the social studies concepts included in each book. 2 Foundation Titles: The two foundational books provide deeper understanding of the content of the “We Are All Connected” titles. We Are All Connected: The Earth, Our Home- explores biomes, ecosystems and biodiversity. We Are All Connected: The Earth, We Share- explores the interconnectedness between living and non-living things. “We Are All Connected” is a series that explores how we all live together in a shared balance upon Mother Earth. Each book explores a specific ecosystem with a focus on one animal and its adaptations for survival within that ecosystem. Indigenous interviewees, each living within the same area, have responded to strategic questions as to how their community interacts with the land, their traditional territory. Explore each text with a sense of inquiry in mind.
Date Published:2017

Authenticity Note: Throughout the series, books contain some authentic Indigenous artwork and images. Although the target Audience is grade 2/3, the book illustrations could support Kindergarten and grade 1 as well. Donated by the Langley Primary Teachers' Association. 8 We Are All Connected Titles: Coast Salish, Coastal Rainforests and Cougars / Haisla, Rivers and Chinook Salmon / Inuit, Tundra and Ravens / Lakota, Mixed Grasslands and Bald Eagles / Métis, Wetlands and Mallards / Nisga'a, Ponds and Leopard Frogs / Nlaka'pamux, Grasslands and Rattlesnakes / Sto:lo, Riparian Forests and Black Bears Each title covers the following curricular areas. Traditional storytelling and artwork begin each title from the focus Indigenous territory. Science: Biodiversity, classification, life cycles, food chains, food webs and connections between living and non-living things are just some of the science concepts included in each book. Social Studies: Contemporary and historical Indigenous cultural knowledge flows throughout each book. Local land forms, gatherings, harvesting practices and government are some of the social studies concepts included in each book. 2 Foundation Titles: The two foundational books provide deeper understanding of the content of the “We Are All Connected” titles. We Are All Connected: The Earth, Our Home- explores biomes, ecosystems and biodiversity. We Are All Connected: The Earth, We Share- explores the interconnectedness between living and non-living things. “We Are All Connected” is a series that explores how we all live together in a shared balance upon Mother Earth. Each book explores a specific ecosystem with a focus on one animal and its adaptations for survival within that ecosystem. Indigenous interviewees, each living within the same area, have responded to strategic questions as to how their community interacts with the land, their traditional territory. Explore each text with a sense of inquiry in mind.

Date Published:2017

Writing Strategies for Social Studies : (LSS)

Sarah Kartchner Clark


Includes CD. Filled with lessons and activities designed to improve writing skills in the Social Studies Classroom.
Date Published:2007

You Should See Me in a Crown Literature Circle Title

Johnson, Leah


his set of 6 books is an excellent BIPOC choice and would work well in conjunction with other titles to create a literature circle. Liz Lighty has always done her best to avoid the spotlight in her small, wealthy, and prom-obsessed midwestern high school, after all, her family is black and rather poor, especially since her mother died; instead she has concentrated on her grades and her musical ability in the hopes that it will win her a scholarship to elite Pennington College and their famous orchestra where she plans to study medicine--but when that scholarship falls through she is forced to turn to her school's scholarship for prom king and queen, which plunges her into the gauntlet of social media which she hates and leads her to discoveries about her own identity and the value of true friendships. .
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his set of 6 books is an excellent BIPOC choice and would work well in conjunction with other titles to create a literature circle. Liz Lighty has always done her best to avoid the spotlight in her small, wealthy, and prom-obsessed midwestern high school, after all, her family is black and rather poor, especially since her mother died; instead she has concentrated on her grades and her musical ability in the hopes that it will win her a scholarship to elite Pennington College and their famous orchestra where she plans to study medicine--but when that scholarship falls through she is forced to turn to her school's scholarship for prom king and queen, which plunges her into the gauntlet of social media which she hates and leads her to discoveries about her own identity and the value of true friendships. .

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