Subject Guides: Teaching Secondary Social Studies: Supporting Materials

Art:

ARTstor This link opens in a new window The ARTstor Digital Library is a collection of digital images of art, architecture and design from a number of books (notably art history survey texts), museums, archives, and slide collections.
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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:

Smithsonian Global Sound This link opens in a new window Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries, produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. The collection provides educators, students, and interested listeners with an unprecedented variety of online resources that support the creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical forms.
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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 This international streaming audio collection features historical recordings of legendary performers as well as educational materials, 1200-present. The main Genres include: Classical, Jazz, Pop & Rock, Folk, Blues, Nostalgia, Gospel, Chinese, Instrumental, and Spoken Word. Using your CCID you can download the Mobile App to your personal device to create personal play lists.

Include World music & educational products

Films:

Films on Demand This link opens in a new window Contains instructional and educational streaming videos from sources such as Films for the Humanities & Sciences and Cambridge Educational in addition to a number of news outlets such as PBS, CNBC, and National Geographic.
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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 The English catalogue contains original English productions and English versions of original French productions that have been produced, co-produced or distributed by the |NFB| from 1939 to the present. Of the over 10,000 films and videos in this collection, this portion of the database contains information on approximately 6,200 films. Searches are possible by title, series, subject, director, producer, cast, year of production, keyword, etc.
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(NFB) - search for Canadian documentaries, animated and fiction films

MAS Ultra - School Edition This link opens in a new window Provides full text from over 400 periodicals covering general reference, health, science, and other areas. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for over over 500 magazines.
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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 Contains instructional and educational streaming videos from sources such as Films for the Humanities & Sciences and Cambridge Educational in addition to a number of news outlets such as PBS, CNBC, and National Geographic.
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Includes streaming video content in English and French / Français.
Education in Video This link opens in a new window Online collection of streaming video developed specifically for training and developing teachers. Includes teaching demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and primary-source footage of students and teachers in actual classrooms.
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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.

Fake News & Media Literacy

The Canadian Foundation for Economic Education: Classroom Edition – Social Studies Videos, cartoons, lesson plans, and selected educational news articles from The Globe and Mail. Evaluate each lesson plan/news story to determine appropriate grade level.
Implementing Digital Literacy in the Classroom
USE, UNDERSTAND & CREATE: A Digital Literacy Framework for Canadian Schools
Your Commonwealth: The Youth Perspective Website contributors aged 15–29 from Commonwealth countries exchange perspectives on current events in their country/community or issues that affect young people around the world.