Resources by Subject → Social Studies, History & Geography

Black History Month Resource, Toronto Star Classroom Connection

This FREE Black History Month resource will help educators and students to gain knowledge about the history and contributions of African civilizations and people of African descent in Canada while using media literacy skills as a vehicle to explore various aspects of Black history.
This guide will also help teachers and students to develop a critical understanding of the socio-historical context of the history of Black Canadians. Through an exploration of the African civilization of Nubia, aspects of Canada’s Black history, and learning about remarkable individuals who have contributed to uncovering and preserving African stories or improving the lives and outcomes of Black Canadians.

Black History Month Resource, Toronto Star Classroom Connection

Royal Ontario Museum: Activities and Resources

This site offers activities, games and resources that can be integrated into any social studies lessons. You can search the site using curriculum keywords.

Royal Ontario Museum: Activities and Resources

The Historical Thinking Project

A website that provides teachers with information on the historical thinking framework and includes instructional, and assessment resources on the six historical thinking concepts to deepen disciplinary thinking in the classroom.

The Historical Thinking Project

Education at the Archives of Ontario

The Archives of Ontario offers onsite, travelling, and online education programming aimed at students from grades 3 to 12. Includes lesson plans on a range of themes and professional development sessions for classroom teachers.

Education at the Archives of Ontario

Blacks in Canadian Athletics

An interactive timeline that highlights the accomplishments of African Canadian athletes.

Blacks in Canadian Athletics

Black Trailblazers in Canadian Political History

An interactive timeline that profiles African Canadian men and women, past and present, in Canadian politics.

Black Trailblazers in Canadian Political History

Blacks in Canadian Human Rights and Equity History

An interactive timeline that highlights the experiences and contributions of African Canadians in the struggle for human rights.

Blacks in Canadian Human Rights and Equity History

Early Black Settlement in Canada

An interactive timeline that features African Canadian communities and settlers.

Early Black Settlement in Canada

We Stand on Guard for Thee: Teaching and Learning the African Canadian Experience in the War of 1812

We Stand on Guard for Thee is a groundbreaking web-based educational project featuring new research on the Black involvement in the War of 1812. The informative series includes narratives, lesson plans, Augmented Reality vignettes, and research reports examining the role of African Canadians in protecting what is now Canada from American conquest, as well as the effect of the war years on Black civilians.

We Stand on Guard for Thee: Teaching and Learning the African Canadian Experience in the War of 1812

Tiled Map – Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada

This map offers a unique perspective on our country’s geography that is vital to understanding the history and diverse cultures of the Indigenous Peoples of Canada. Setting aside the political boundaries of provinces and territories, this map instead focuses on historical treaties and land claims, the distribution of Indigenous language families, the locations of reserves and band councils, the formers sites of residential schools, and more.

This tiled map is composed of 64 tiles and when put together measures 2.7 metres by 2 metres (105 inches by 78 inches).

Tiled Map – Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada