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| OCTOBER 29, 2025 7-8pm Rethinking Remembrance: Tools for teaching Remembrance Day in your classrooms Anthony Badame (Honouring Bravery) Remembrance Day is an opportunity to teach students about Canadian history – but are students really engaging with that opportunity in a meaningful way? What does Remembrance Day actually mean to them? Using Honouring Bravery’s free classroom resources, participants will learn how the stories of diverse Canadian heroes can be used to help foster empathy in the classroom and empower students to find ways to make a difference in their own communities. Guiding Student Reflections on War Andrea McArthur (Red Cross) Help your students think critically about the wars they are witnessing around the world. Explore new, FREE multimedia resources that foster critical thinking and compassion by introducing the principles of International Humanitarian Law and related humanitarian issues alongside the perspectives of people facing humanitarian dilemmas in armed conflict. |
| NOVEMBER 12, 2025 7-8pm Unlock Civic Action with your Students Melissa Chan (Elections Canada) How can you take action to make a difference? That is the inquiry question at the heart of Civic Action: Then and Now. Experience this hands-on activity that engages students in analyzing case studies of women and Indigenous people who took action that resulted in real change. Students then create their own civic action plans to make a positive impact in their own community. Participants will hear from Markham regional education coordinator Melissa Chan who will share her experiences piloting a case study of Chinese Canadian civic action with her community. This free resource is available in English and French, and in a language learner version. Join us to discover how to use this resource in your civics, history, politics, law or equity studies classes. The Ethics Bowl: Improving Discourse through Ethical Debates Elliot Carter (Ethics Bowl) The Ethics Bowl is a new way to debate, which involves teams of high school students designing the best position on contemporary ethical dilemmas–e.g., should healthcare be culturally sensitive? What do children owe their aging parents? Should we limit online speech to prevent misinformation? Students make their best case using reasoning and persuasion, not rhetoric. Ethics Bowl is competitive but also collaborative; teams are encouraged to incorporate feedback from opponents and judges to refine their positions. There were nine regional Ethics Bowls in Ontario this year, involving hundreds of students from all over the province, and it has been enjoying explosive growth since beginning in Ontario in 2020. Learn how you and your students can get involved! |
| NOVEMBER 26, 2025 7-8pm Bringing Diverse Historical Perspectives into the Classroom: Historica Canada’s Educational Resources Mira Goldberg-Poch (Historica Canada) This informative session will familiarize participants with Historica Canada’s free, bilingual resources designed to promote critical thinking and diverse perspectives in history and social studies classrooms. Historica Canada’s programs encourage students, educators, and the general public to explore, learn, and reflect on our history, and what it means to be Canadian. Teachers across Canada use our themed learning tools, lesson plans, and education guides built around curriculum topics, with interactive activities aimed at promoting critical thinking. Our recent offerings include a focus on the integration of new, diverse histories, including Indigenous Canadian perspectives, the experiences of Black Canadians, and often-forgotten stories of Canadian women. This session will equip teachers with an understanding of how to use Historica Canada’s free resources in the classroom. Opening the Door to 2SLGBTQI+ Hidden Histories: Canada’s LGBT Purge Walter Cassidy The systematic discrimination of 2SLGBTQI+ individuals from the 1950s to the 1990s has come to be called the LGBT Purge. The story of the Purge is complex, interwoven with many other movements and events spanning multiple decades. One of the many educational free online teacher resources offered by the Canadian Museum of Human Rights is Opening the Door to 2SLGBTQI+ Hidden Histories: Canada’s LGBT Purge. This free downloadable resource can be used in conjunction with the large touring exhibit, a smaller touring pop-up exhibit or on its own. The resource engages students in innovative methods through inquiry and hands-on engagement. |
| DECEMBER 10, 2025 7-8pm Why Peace Museum? Engaging Students Through Museum Learning Elaine Law (Asia Pacific Peace Museum) Game On: Designing Education Board Games for the Classroom Hafiz Printer (Archives Ontario) Interested in incorporating game-based learning into your teaching? In this session we will explore the difference between gamification and game-based learning and how board games can contribute to meaningful learning experiences. During the session teachers will go through a step by step process for creating a board game for their class. By the end of the session teachers will have the tools and confidence to create games for the classroom. The session aims to provide teachers the opportunity to explore an innovative pedagogical approach. |
