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History Resources from OHASSTA
| Name | Author | Last Updated | Link | Description |
| History “Tags” | OHASSTA members | On Going | OHASSTA Site | All Rapport articles with the History Tag |
| OHASSTA webinars | OHASSTA members | On Going | OHASSTA YouTube Channel | Variety of topics |
| CHC2D Resources | Christina Iorio | On Going | Google Doc | Resources for grade 10 Canadian History |
| Canada & Korea (Grade 6) | OHASSTA | OHASSTA site | Bilingual resources | |
| Canada & Korea (Grade 10) | OHASSTA | OHASSTA site | Bilingual resources | |
| South Korea: Democratization | Erin Ledlow and Jim Pedrech | 2021 | OHASSTA site | South Korean History |
| TRC Calls to Action: Revised History Curriculum Summer Institute Sudbury | OHASSTA and OTF | 2018 | Google Drive | |
| Just Blend It! Summer Institute Niagara | OHASSTA and OTF | 2017 | Google Slides | Blended learning in a History classroom |
| Historical Thinking Posters | OHASSTA | 2013 | Google Drive EN Google Drive FR | Historical Significance Cause and Consequence Continuity and Change Historical Perspectives |
| Thinking About LGBTQ2+ Narratives in History | Ian Duncan | 2019 | Google Drive | |
| Some are Guilty; All are Responsible: Teaching Reconciliation through Holocaust Memoirs and Tanya Talaga’s Seven Fallen Feathers | Erin Doupe | 2019 | Slides Google Doc | |
| Going Gradeless in the Secondary History Classroom | Lisa Hicknell | 2019 | Google Slides | Pedagogy |
| An introduction to Passion Project Based History and Social Science Classrooms | Rebecca Chambers | 2019 | Google Drive | Pedagogy |
| Beyond Black History Month | Sandi Vander Heyden | 2019 | Google Drive | Black History |
| Les TIC dans les Cours de CHC | Rebecca Grimes | 2016 | Google Drive | French Resources |
| The Greatest Pharaoh | 2016 | Google Drive | Pedagogy | |
| Is the Library History? | 2016 | Google Drive | Pedagogy | |
| Embedding Inquiry in History and Law | Christina Ganev & Flora Fung | 2016 | Google Drive | Pedagogy |
| Decolonizing Canada | Michael Burgess | 2016 | Google Drive | Indigenous Education |
| Bringing Reconciliation to Your Classroom | Ben Gross & Cheryl Payne | 2016 | Google Drive | Reconciliation |
| Tar Sands, Canoes, and John A | 2015 | zip file | ||
| WW I, Technology, and Historical Thinking | 2015 | zip file | Historical Thinking | |
| Ten Lessons on Embedding FNMI for Grade Ten History | 2015 | zip file | Indigenous Education |
Partner Resources
| The National Film Board | Canada’s films in both English and French. Collections include: Indigenous Voices and Reconciliation, Diversity and Inclusion, Equity, Made in Canada and more. | Resources, bilingual |
| The Critical Thinking Consortium | Resources to support inquiry learning. Thinking about History videos, History Docs, Snapshots in Time and more. | Resources, inquiry |
| Historica Canada | Heritage Minutes, videos, podcasts, Think Like a Historian series, Indigenous histories, civics and citizenship and more. | Resources, bilingual |
| Canadian Museum for Human Rights | The Canadian Human Rights Museum has online tools, lessons and information for educators to support teaching about equity. | Resources, bilingual |
| Elections Canada | Elections Canada’s educational resources – short lessons for history, civics and more! | Resources, bilingual |
| Canada’s History | The Governor General’s History Award for Excellence in Teaching, Canada’s History magazine, Kayak, classroom resources, webinars, and more. | Awards, resources, bilingual |
| Defining Moments Canada | Collaborative project for 21st century storytelling. Projects include: the Spanish Flu, VEDay75 and more | Resources, bilingual, historical thinking |
| Nelson Publishing | Textbooks both print and online for civics, history, social science and more | Resources |
| Facing History and Ourselves | Tools, strategies, and resources for students to explore themes of prejudice, justice, equity, and civic responsibility. Workshops for teachers. | Resources, workshops, bilingual |
| Historical Thinking Project | The concepts of historical thinking explained. Download student-friendly templates and find other resources supporting historical thinking. | Historical thinking, bilingual |
| The Canadian Encyclopedia | Articles about almost every subject in Canadian history with many interactive timelines and other resources. | Resources, bilingual |
| CBC Archives | Online collection of video and audio clips from the CBC vaults. The news becomes history. | Resources, bilingual |
| Where are the Children? | The official exhibit of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation. Photos and accounts from residential school survivors, teachers, and intergenerational survivors | Resources, bilingual |
| The Begbie Contest Society | A treasure trove of primary sources organized into ready-to-use multiple-choice, short answer and essay questions. | Resources |
| LIbrary and Archives Canada | Immigration, genealogy, Indigenous histories, military history, land records, maps, music and so much more | Resources, bilingual |
| The McCord Museum | Extensive and organized online collections of historical cartoons, photographs and other primary source material available for use in the classroom. | Resources, bilingual |
| The Archives of Ontario | School workshops on-site, primary sources, lesson plans for all grades, workshops for educators | Resources, bilingual |
| Virtual Historian | Interactive, primary source-based history activities to do online from researchers at the University of Ottawa. | Primary Sources, bilingual |
| The History Education Network | THEN/HiER was a 7-year research project that brought together historians, museum educators, teachers, researchers in faculties of education, and policymakers. The website is now archived. | Research, resources, bilingual |
| Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History | In-depth collections of primary resources so that your students can do history. Newest collection on the Franklin Expedition includes Inuit sources. Use the Mystery Quests – they are digestible activities for students at age-appropriate levels. | Primary Sources, bilingual |
| The Glenbow Archives | If you’re looking for something specific, this archives in Calgary has an enormous amount of material digitized, with a large collections on Indigenous history(ies). | Primary Sources |
| Canadian Museum of History | Take a virtual tour of the new Canadian History Hall, explore the Morning Star by Alex Janvier or browse through the vast online archives | Resources, bilingual |
| The Virtual Museum | This meta-museum database connects to more than 500 virtual exhibits across Canada. Learning resources and lesson plans to support the history classroom. | Primary sources, bilingual |
| The Memory Project | Personal stories of Canadian veterans who share their experiences in our history. Searchable and bilingual. | Primary Sources, bilingual |
| The National Archives (US) | The American National Archives. Lots of primary sources for teaching American history topics. | Primary Sources |
| Bamboo Shoots | The history and legacy of Chinese-Canadian exclusion in British Columbia. Lessons and primary sources. | Resources |
| Toronto Holocaust Museum | Offers teacher resources, including curriculum-aligned materials, survivor testimonies, and lesson plans. | Resources |
| United States Holocaust Museum | Provides an extensive collection of educator resources, including primary sources, detailed lesson plans, and professional development tools to support teaching about the Holocaust and combating hate. | Resources |
| Curio | A back catalogue of CBC programming and News in Review episodes which include teaching resources | Video resources, bilingual (Requires board/district subscription) |