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April 18: Mapping Electoral Boundaries and Exploring Electoral Communities
What factors, both human and physical, help to determine electoral boundaries? How are we part of a federal electoral community? How does my community compare to others? Take part in two activities that can help your students develop geographic thinking. In Geography of Elections, students will identify patterns and trends in electoral districts across Canada. …
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April 11 – Inquiring about Elections: Literacy-Numeracy and Global Competencies
Critical thinking, innovation, collaboration, communication and citizenship are at the heart of Elections Canada’s new activities for secondary students. In this webinar, we will explore two lessons to help your students become actively engaged citizens. In Elections by the Numbers, students work collaboratively to develop a creative message about voter turnout. Whether you teach grade …
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Civics and Beyond! Wizards and Trains for Your Civics and Politics Classroom
Civics and Beyond! Wizards and Trains for Your Civics and Politics Classroom Wondering how to support political thinking, collaboration and democratic participation? We will explore two activities at the heart of political participation. In Does Voting Matter?, students participate in a series of voting simulations that help them to experience the effects of voting …
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March 28, 2019: Elections Canada – Inclusion and Civic Action: Inquiry Activities for Your History Classroom.
Explore new resources from Elections Canada that support historical thinking and collaboration in your history classroom. We will look at two inquiry-based lessons. Voting Rights through Time engages students in thinking about continuity and change, turning points and issues of inclusion in electoral history since 1867. Civic Action: Then and Now involves students in historical …
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OTF Connect May 30 : Let’s Solve this Problem! Shifting our International Languages Classes from Spoken Production to Interaction
The revised (2016) curriculum for International Languages finally has a focus on interaction, which represents the vast majority of real-life language use that our students will continue to use in their personal and professional lives. Whether our students learn Spanish, German, Italian, Arabic, Mandarin, or any of the other 72 International Languages offered in our …