North American Studies

The Center for North American Studies Outreach

North American Studies' Canadian Studies Program has maintained a twenty-five year tradition of outreach to elementary, secondary, and post secondary educators begun by Canadian studies. The Center has organized annual workshops for primary and secondary school teachers interested in teaching about Mexico, Canada, or North America as a region. At the college level, the Center can provide visiting speakers upon request. Outreach to serve business media and the general public is also an important part of the Center's mission.

Please visit our featured 'learning resource' web sites:

NCCIU North Carolina Center for International Understanding

NCCIU, a program of the University of North Carolina, helps to educate North Carolina citizens, educators, and K-12 students to function effectively in an interdependent global community through international educational exchanges, resources, and programs featuring person-to-person interaction and technology.

The NCTC is dedicated to facilitating the teaching of Canada in the United States. It is comprised of Canadian Studies Programs at American universities and colleges. The NCTC's mission is

to capture the imagination and attention of K-12 teachers, students and media resource specialists and the general public by communicating the most recent research, themes and ideas about Canada and its place in the world.

Resource Guides
The Center for North American Studies has conducted annual workshops for elementary, secondary, and post secondary educators. Each workshop produced a resource volume on the topic selected. Below is a brief discussion of the guides to date.

In May, 1998 the Center collaborated with The Duke-UNC Program in Latin American Studies to produce a workshop focusing on perspectives of North America, including the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Topics for discussion are reflected in the resource guide and include the following subjects: Politics and Geography, Economics, Latino/Chicano Issues, Mexican Filmand Oral Histories. Special resources in the Becoming Better Partners Resource Guide include "MexicanFilm-Strategies for Use in the Classroom," and a Mexican History Slide Presentation.

April 1999, the Center for North American Studies held a two-day conference on the topic of Nunavut, Canada's newest, and recently designated Territory. The Nunavut: an Inuit Homeland Resource Guide contains six sections on the following topics: Nunavut as Home, Art of the Inuit (two sections), Narrative Reflections: History, Literature, and Language, Aspects of a Society in Transition, Resources: Bibliographies, Web Sites, etc., Nunavut at a Glance- Fast Fact Sheets & Maps. Special items include: a Nunavut Lesson Module, Nunavut Activities for grades 5-6, Printmaking in the North: a Lesson Module by Arctic teacher Sharon Sutherland, Art First Nations: Arctic Lesson Plan with sample prints.

Internet Sites for Learning Resources

Canadian Web Page Resources:

Government of Canada Primary Internet Site
Government of Canada Primary Internet Site (Canada Site) is the Internet electronic access point through which Internet users around the world can obtain information about Canada, its government and its services. Direct links are also provided from this site to government departments and agencies that have Internet facilities.

About Canada
This site describes some of the symbols that establish the Canadian identity. The symbols tell the story of the Canadian nation, people, environment and history. Each Canadian Province and Territory is also outlined, as well as general information about Canadian society and economy.

CMCC-Online resources for Canadian heritage
This site focuses on Internet resources pertinent to Canadian heritage in the disciplines covered by the Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation: archaeology, ethnology, history (including military history and postal history), and folk culture. Other resources are also included if they are considered to provide a larger context for understanding Canada, its history, and the multicultural backgrounds of Canadians. Finally, some general resources are included to help you pursue subjects further afield.

National Consortium for Teaching Canada
NCTC is dedicated to facilitating the teaching of Canada in the United States, and is comprised of Canadian Studies Programs at American universities and colleges.

Nunavut Planning Commission Home Page / About Nunavut
In the Inuit language of Inuktitut, Nunavut means “Our Land.” It is the name given to the ancestral home of the Inuit of the central and eastern Arctic, and to the recently created Territory of Nunavut in Canada’s Eastern Arctic.

University of Washington’s Canadian Resource Page
Canadian Resources on the Internet. This site includes a Canadian kids’ homage.

Natural Resources Canada/Ressources naturelles Canada
The National Atlas of Canada

Canadian Geographical Names
The Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical Names (CPCGN) maintains this interactive and authoritative source of over 500,000 geographical names in Canada. By combining this server and the Canadian Geographical Names Data Base (CGNDB), this site provides a simple reference series which includes basic locational information and maps that are easy to download.

Parliamentary Internet Parlementaire
Welcome to Canada’s Parliament
Bienvenue au Parlement du Canada

Highly recommended site: The University of Washington has a web site designed to teach about Canada by making links between the histories of the U.S. and Canada. "Linking! Connecting Canadian History to the U.S.," includes six online modules which can be taught as a complete series on Canada, or individually to enhance social studies or geography projects. Includes a Nunavut module.

K-12 Web Page Resources

History/Social Studies Web Site for K-12 Teachers
Dennis Boals maintains this site for the purpose of encouraging the use of the World Wide Web as tool for learning and teaching and to provide some help for K-12 teachers in locating and using the resources of the Internet in the classroom.

Journey North
The Annenberg/CPB Math & Science Project is pleased to present Journey North, an Internet based learning adventure that engages students in a global study of wildlife migration and seasonal change.

K-12 Education and Latin American Studies-LANIC
Latin American & Bilingual Resources for Kindergarten-12th grade. This site also has a section on International Resources which includes links to Canadian sources as well. This University of Texas web site contains a thorough list of good links.

Web66: A K12 World Wide Web Project
Just as U.S. Highway Route 66 was catalyst for Americana, we see the World Wide Web as a catalyst that will integrate the Internet into K12 school curricula. The Web66 project is designed to facilitate the introduction of this technology into K12 schools. The goals of this project are:
1. To help K12 educators learn how to set up their own Internet servers.
2. To link K12 web servers and the educators and students at those schools.
3. To help K12 educators find and use K12 appropriate resources on the web.
-Stephen E. Collins, Webmaster.

This is a project of the University of Minnesota College of Education & Human Development, Office of Information Technology and Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement.

Additional Web Resources:

North Carolina Education (DPI)

Global Connections link

Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections

Journey North: A Global Study of Migration- web pages for teachers; includes Teacher's Manual and Teacher Discussion sections.

Summer Explorations in Canadian Cultures- Canadian Studies Program, Trent University. SECC welcomes individuals and groups interested in expanding their understanding of Canada.

École internationale de Français, TEACHER PROGRAM, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

NCSS Online Teaching Resources- The National Council for the Social Studies provides resources categorized by the ten themes of the Curriculum Standards for Social Studies. New resource are added monthly.

Social Studies Education: the National Council for Social Studies

Book Resources

Federation of Nova Scotian Heritage
1809 Barrington Street
Suite 901
Halifax, Nova Scotia
B3J 3K8
Tel. (902) 423-4677
Fax: (902) 422-0881

McClelland & Stewart
481 University Avenue, Suite 900
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
M5G 2E9
Tel: (800) 788-1074
Fax: (416) 598-4002

The Association for the Export of Canadian Books
1 Nicholas Street, Suite 504
Ottawa, Ontario
K1N 7B7 Canada
Tel: (613) 562-2324
Fax: (613) 562-2329
Email: aecb@aecb.org
Internet: http://aecb.org

The Heritage Post
Canada Post Corporation
Antigonish NS B2G 2R8
The Heritage Post is published by
The Canada Post Corporation & the CRB Foundation.

Teaching Canada
Center for the Study of Canada
133 Court Street
Plattsburgh, NY 12901
Tel: (518) 564-2397
Fax: (518) 564-2112
Teaching Canada is published twice each school year and is free to educators in the United States.

Resource Center of the Americas
317 Seventeenth Ave., SE
Minneapolis, MN 55414
Tel: (612) 627-9445
Fax: (612) 627-9450
Email: rctamm@maroon.tc.umn.edu
Multicultural Resources on Mexicans and Mexican-Americans


	The Center for North American Studies Outreach North American Studies' Canadian Studies Program has maintained a twenty-five year tradition of outreach to elementary, secondary, and post secondary educators begun by Canadian studies. The Center has organized annual workshops for primary and secondary school teachers interested in teaching about Mexico, Canada, or North America as a region. At the college level, the Center can provide visiting speakers upon request. Outreach to serve business media and the general public is also an important part of the Center's mission. Please visit our featured 'learning resource' web sites: NCCIU North Carolina Center for International Understanding NCCIU, a program of the University of North Carolina, helps to educate North Carolina citizens, educators, and K-12 students to function effectively in an interdependent global community through international educational exchanges, resources, and programs featuring person-to-person interaction and technology. The NCTC is dedicated to facilitating the teaching of Canada in the United States. It is comprised of Canadian Studies Programs at American universities and colleges. The NCTC's mission is to capture the imagination and attention of K-12 teachers, students and media resource specialists and the general public by communicating the most recent research, themes and ideas about Canada and its place in the world. Resource Guides The Center for North American Studies has conducted annual workshops for elementary, secondary, and post secondary educators. Each workshop produced a resource volume on the topic selected. Below is a brief discussion of the guides to date. In May, 1998 the Center collaborated with The Duke-UNC Program in Latin American Studies to produce a workshop focusing on perspectives of North America, including the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Topics for discussion are reflected in the resource guide and include the following subjects: Politics and Geography, Economics, Latino/Chicano Issues, Mexican Filmand Oral Histories. Special resources *in the Becoming Better Partners Resource Guide* include "MexicanFilm-Strategies for Use in the Classroom," and a Mexican History Slide Presentation. April 1999, the Center for North American Studies held a two-day conference on the topic of Nunavut, Canada's newest, and recently designated Territory. The Nunavut: an Inuit Homeland Resource Guide contains six sections on the following topics: Nunavut as Home, Art of the Inuit (two sections), Narrative Reflections: History, Literature, and Language, Aspects of a Society in Transition, Resources: Bibliographies, Web Sites, etc., Nunavut at a Glance- Fast Fact Sheets & Maps. Special items include: a Nunavut Lesson Module, Nunavut Activities for grades 5-6, Printmaking in the North: a Lesson Module by Arctic teacher Sharon Sutherland, Art First Nations: Arctic Lesson Plan with sample prints. Internet Sites for Learning Resources Canadian Web Page Resources:** Government of Canada Primary Internet Site Government of Canada Primary Internet Site (Canada Site) is the Internet electronic access point through which Internet users around the world can obtain information about Canada, its government and its services. Direct links are also provided from this site to government departments and agencies that have Internet facilities. About Canada This site describes some of the symbols that establish the Canadian identity. The symbols tell the story of the Canadian nation, people, environment and history. Each Canadian Province and Territory is also outlined, as well as general information about Canadian society and economy. CMCC-Online resources for Canadian heritage This site focuses on Internet resources pertinent to Canadian heritage in the disciplines covered by the Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation: archaeology, ethnology, history (including military history and postal history), and folk culture. Other resources are also included if they are considered to provide a larger context for understanding Canada, its history, and the multicultural backgrounds of Canadians. Finally, some general resources are included to help you pursue subjects further afield. National Consortium for Teaching Canada NCTC is dedicated to facilitating the teaching of Canada in the United States, and is comprised of Canadian Studies Programs at American universities and colleges. Nunavut Planning Commission Home Page / About Nunavut In the Inuit language of Inuktitut, Nunavut means “Our Land.” It is the name given to the ancestral home of the Inuit of the central and eastern Arctic, and to the recently created Territory of Nunavut in Canada’s Eastern Arctic. University of Washington’s Canadian Resource Page Canadian Resources on the Internet. This site includes a Canadian kids’ homage. Natural Resources Canada/Ressources naturelles Canada The National Atlas of Canada Canadian Geographical Names The Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical Names (CPCGN) maintains this interactive and authoritative source of over 500,000 geographical names in Canada. By combining this server and the Canadian Geographical Names Data Base (CGNDB), this site provides a simple reference series which includes basic locational information and maps that are easy to download. Parliamentary Internet Parlementaire Welcome to Canada’s Parliament Bienvenue au Parlement du Canada Highly recommended site: The University of Washington has a web site designed to teach about Canada by making links between the histories of the U.S. and Canada. "Linking! Connecting Canadian History to the U.S.," includes six online modules which can be taught as a complete series on Canada, or individually to enhance social studies or geography projects. Includes a Nunavut module. K-12 Web Page Resources History/Social Studies Web Site for K-12 Teachers Dennis Boals maintains this site for the purpose of encouraging the use of the World Wide Web as tool for learning and teaching and to provide some help for K-12 teachers in locating and using the resources of the Internet in the classroom. Journey North The Annenberg/CPB Math & Science Project is pleased to present Journey North, an Internet based learning adventure that engages students in a global study of wildlife migration and seasonal change. K-12 Education and Latin American Studies-LANIC Latin American & Bilingual Resources for Kindergarten-12th grade. This site also has a section on International Resources which includes links to Canadian sources as well. This University of Texas web site contains a thorough list of good links. Web66: A K12 World Wide Web Project Just as U.S. Highway Route 66 was catalyst for Americana, we see the World Wide Web as a catalyst that will integrate the Internet into K12 school curricula. The Web66 project is designed to facilitate the introduction of this technology into K12 schools. The goals of this project are: 1. To help K12 educators learn how to set up their own Internet servers. 2. To link K12 web servers and the educators and students at those schools. 3. To help K12 educators find and use K12 appropriate resources on the web. -Stephen E. Collins, Webmaster. This is a project of the University of Minnesota College of Education & Human Development, Office of Information Technology and Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement. Additional Web Resources: North Carolina Education (DPI) Global Connections link Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections Journey North: A Global Study of Migration- web pages for teachers; includes Teacher's Manual and Teacher Discussion sections. Summer Explorations in Canadian Cultures- Canadian Studies Program, Trent University. SECC welcomes individuals and groups interested in expanding their understanding of Canada. École internationale de Français, TEACHER PROGRAM, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières NCSS Online Teaching Resources- The National Council for the Social Studies provides resources categorized by the ten themes of the Curriculum Standards for Social Studies. New resource are added monthly. Social Studies Education: the National Council for Social Studies Book Resources Federation of Nova Scotian Heritage 1809 Barrington Street Suite 901 Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 3K8 Tel. (902) 423-4677 Fax: (902) 422-0881 McClelland & Stewart 481 University Avenue, Suite 900 Toronto, Ontario Canada M5G 2E9 Tel: (800) 788-1074 Fax: (416) 598-4002 The Association for the Export of Canadian Books 1 Nicholas Street, Suite 504 Ottawa, Ontario K1N 7B7 Canada Tel: (613) 562-2324 Fax: (613) 562-2329 Email: aecb@aecb.org Internet: http://aecb.org The Heritage Post Canada Post Corporation Antigonish NS B2G 2R8 The Heritage Post is published by The Canada Post Corporation & the CRB Foundation. Teaching Canada Center for the Study of Canada 133 Court Street Plattsburgh, NY 12901 Tel: (518) 564-2397 Fax: (518) 564-2112 Teaching Canada is published twice each school year and is free to educators in the United States. Resource Center of the Americas 317 Seventeenth Ave., SE Minneapolis, MN 55414 Tel: (612) 627-9445 Fax: (612) 627-9450 Email: rctamm@maroon.tc.umn.edu Multicultural Resources on Mexicans and Mexican-Americans
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