ELA+Social+Justice

An interesting site for human rights info and video clips:
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Voice Thread
Comprehensive list of [|Voice Thread Resources]

An Educators Guide to Voice Thread

Social Justice Book Choices



 * Essential Questions**

Videos
[|Facing History and Ourselves]

Google Earth
[|Google Maps Labs]

[|View WW11 Imagery on Google Earth]

[|How To Make Placemarks and Tours in Google Earth]

[|Lit trips]

Teaching Resources
[|Teaching a Peoples History]

[|The Best of Social Justice Issues]

[|Resource Collections]

[|Be the Change]

[|Organizations] scroll down to see more

[|Gapminder]

Video about the educational uses of Gapminder- [|200 years that changed the world]

**Web Resources **

This site has a wealth of information, lessons and activities. []
 * Aboriginal Canada Portal **

A site with comments from recent editions of the magazine, including interesting topics for classrooms. []
 * Adbusters **

[] This site includes a calendar of national and international events, information on a variety of issues such as child labour and poverty, and a link to the BCTF newsletter.
 * British Columbia **** Teachers’ Federation **

[|http://www.ccsd.ca] This site contains a wealth of information in the form of data and research that can be used in teaching units focusing on poverty or living conditions.
 * Canadian Council on Social Development **

[] CPAR Tools for Learning are FREE, downloadable teaching resources for Canadian schools which bring international development issues into the classroom using integrated engaging and teacher-friendly lessons. The elementary materials focus on the grade 4-5 area and can be found at: [] The high school units are identified by province and by curriculum. The Saskatchewan resources focus on units from Social Studies 20 and 30. []
 * Canadian Physicians for Aid and Relief (CPAR) **

[] This site, based in Ontario, includes links to multiple fact sheets around issues such as users of food banks, and the income gap in Canada. This organization hosts an annual conference for social justice activists.
 * Centre for Social Justice **

[] This website has a Global Education section. Find articles, links to other pages and resources
 * Citizens for Change **

[] This site has many links and resources not only on class, but also on the intersection of class, race and gender.
 * Class Action **

This site contains a running tally of the cost of the Iraq war and compares these costs to other issues such as the cost of affordable housing in the US. It contains information for a variety of math social justice activities. []
 * Cost of War **

[] There are student resources for all age levels, addressing topics such as the UN, country information and statistics, city profiles, and global trends.
 * Cyber School Bus **

[] This Saskatchewan site explains the concept of an environmental footprint, and has a very easy to use tool for students to calculate their own environmental footprint.
 * Ecological Footprint **

[] The Exploring Africa initiative provides comprehensive learning materials from and about Africa aimed at four educational levels: K-6, 6-8, 9-12, and undergraduate.
 * Exploring Africa: Africa in the Classroom **

[] This site contains considerable information about child labour.
 * Free the Children **

www.gapminder.org Although too advanced for Grade 4 students, this site can provide great statistical background for teachers on the latest development indicators per country. It holds many interactive graphs.
 * GapMinder **

This website contains unit plans designed for teachers, by teachers. The units explore the themes of global education across the grades and across the curriculum. The units contain all of the necessary handouts and materials to be easily utilized in the classroom setting and are consistent with the outcomes of the BC Curriculum. The creation of this site and the units were made possible through a joint CIDA and BCTF project. []
 * Global Education: BCTF **

[] Developed for school and family use, this site provides information on how global human rights, environmental, health and economic issues affect the lives of Canadians. There are interactive and multimedia components, games and quizzes, radio documentaries, audio interviews, and links (including sites for teachers). Also available in French.
 * Global Heroes **

[] Global Response empowers people of all ages, cultures, and nationalities to protect the environment by creating partnerships for effective citizen action. At the request of indigenous peoples and grassroots organizations, Global Response organizes urgent international letter campaigns to help communities prevent many kinds of environmental destruction.
 * Global Response **

This site has links to many human rights organizations and resources. []
 * Human Rights Organizations **

[|http://media.iearn.org] Some of the projects involved in Global Kidz can be shared with other students around the world. This site allows you to do this as well as collaborate with other teachers, and do joint projects.
 * IEarn **

This site contains links and information regarding Indigenous issues and climate change. []
 * Indigenous Issues **

This site has a variety of lesson plans, classroom activities, background readings and Canadian resources. There are sections on Race Relations, including Media and Race, and Deconstructing Online Hate, for example. Lessons are catalogued by grade and topic. []
 * Media Awareness **

[] This site has a diverse selection of information and lessons on topics such as Chinese immigration and the Dukhobors. It also contains an encyclopedia of Canada’s peoples.
 * Multicultural Canada **

This site has information and data about poverty in Canada. []
 * National Anti-Poverty Organization **

This United Nations site contains five units that focus on educating for a culture of peace. Each unit address a separate age level, from age eight to over fourteen. []
 * Peace Education **

[|http://www.resourcesforrethinking.ca] Resources for Rethinking is a database that provides teachers with access to materials that integrate ecological, social, and economic spheres.
 * Resources for Rethinking – by Learning for a Sustainable Future **

This site has many resources for teachers including articles and a list of web resources. []
 * Rethinking Schools **

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 * Statistics Canada ** –variety of tables.

This site contains suggestions and resources for teaching social justice in the classroom. []
 * Teaching for Change. **

This resource developed by the United Nations contains multiple lessons and information for the teaching of human rights. []
 * Teaching Human rights: practical activities for primary and secondary schools **

Teaching for Peace is a new web resource that provides easy-to-use, practical classroom lessons as well as comprehensive links to resources for peace education. Some of the issues addressed are war and peace, global conflict and inequality, issues of gender, race, class, and so on. []
 * Teaching for Peace **

[|http://www.unicef.ca] You can access a variety of educational resources and activities at this site.
 * UNICEF Canada, The Global Schoolhouse **


 * Free Online Social Justice Videos **

// A World Without Water // This video examines global water scarcity, access, and privatization. [] or []

// Frontline – Is Wal-Mart Good for America // ? This video examines the cost of low prices [] []

// Merchants of Cool // Corporate America’s 150 billion dollar ‘cool’ marketing to teens in examined. [] or []

// Sex Slaves // This PBS documentary exposes the global sex trade business in the Soviet Bloc. [] []

// Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land: Media and the Israel – Palestine Conflict. // The Palestine issue always sparks controversy, but this video focuses on the role of the media in the conflict [] or []

// Tackling Extremism // The issue of how to combat extremism and improve relations between the West and the Muslim world is debated. []

// Human Rights and the Environment // Human rights director Ken Roth explains how environmental abuses have led to human rights violations in Darfur, Nigeria, Indonesia, and Angola. []

// People Like Us // [] A video from PBS that explains class, which also has a companion web site and resources.