Subject Guides: Teaching Secondary Social Studies: Supporting Materials

Art:

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Registering for ARTstor:
- At the first ARTstor page click on the orange "Go" icon (upper right of screen).
- Click on "Not registered?" (upper right). Include an email address (this can be a non-UofA email address if you've already keyed in a University of Alberta CCID and password).
- Confirm the email address, then select and confirm a password.
- Click on "Submit."

Collection of digital images of art, architecture and design from a number of books (notably art history survey texts), museums, archives, and slide collections.

Holodomor Teaching and Research Resources

Holodomor Teaching and Research Resource List
Linked here is a list of educational and research resources curated by University of Alberta Library staff with assistance from scholars studying the Holodomor, including the CIUS and HREC.

HREC Education: Top Picks for Teachers
This is a list of resources suitable for classroom instruction that have been selected by Valentina Kuryliw, Director of Education at the HREC.

HREC Education Website
Offers information about the Holodomor through a variety of materials for educators and students. This site also features lesson plans and suggested assignments for students grades 6-12 along with a comprehensive list of resources and specific provincial curriculum applications.

UofA Databases with Interesting Social Studies Content

Music:

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It includes the published recordings owned by the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections of the legendary Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels. It also includes music recorded around the African continent by Dr. Hugh Tracey for the International Library of African Music (ILAM) at Rhodes University as well as material collected by recordists on the South Asian subcontinent from the Archive Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE), sponsored by the American Institute for Indian Studies.

Contains music from all over the world. Find musical resources that accompany the countries that you are studying.

Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window

Include World music & educational products

Films:

Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
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Includes streaming video content in English and French / Français.

Includes thousands of programs produced by PBS, CNBC, Open University, Cambridge Educational etc. Clips and entire programs can be embedded in presentations.

National Film Board of Canada Catalogue This link opens in a new window
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(NFB) - search for Canadian documentaries, animated and fiction films

MAS Ultra - School Edition This link opens in a new window
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Also includes charts, tables and graphs converted to ASCII text; full text Magill Book Reviews; full text of over 100 Macmillan books; over 500 health and science-related pamphlets in full text; coverage of the CIA World Factbook; and Essential Documents in American History. Full text backfiles go as far back as January of 1990, while indexing and abstract backfiles go as far back as January of 1984. Updated daily .

Electronic library of periodicals covering general reference, health, science. Includes the CIA World Fact Book.

Streaming Video Databases with Education Content

Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
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Includes streaming video content in English and French / Français.
Education in Video This link opens in a new window
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Includes streaming video content in Arabic, English, Finnish, French / Français, German, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Polish and Spanish languages.

Radio & Television:

Curio.ca
Access to educational streaming video and audio from CBC and Radio-Canada.

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Access to educational streaming video and audio from CBC and Radio-Canada. Includes documentaries from television and radio, news reports, archival material, stock shots, and other content.
CBC Digital Archives
Combine a topic word with "CBC archives" in the search box near the magnifying glass (i.e. hudson's bay company CBC archives) to see historical news footage.

Teaching Secondary Social Studies