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Alberta Learning Prescribed Curriculum
The Alberta Learning Program
of Studies for those who want to know what Alberta students are expected
to learn.
Alberta Consumers' Association
The Consumers'
Association of Canada, Alberta link can be used as a resource for students
taking Career and Life Management 20 and Social
Studies 16, 13, and 10.
Career and Life Management
20
Students working on the Independent Living
component of the Career and Life Management 20 core
curriculum can use the Sources of Consumer Information
link to explore the types of information available to consumers on the
internet. In addition the Consumer Advocacy
link will introduce them to many forms of advocacy and the organizations
that are working on behalf of consumers. These links lead to information
that students working on Module 3 Consumer and Investment Choices can use,
particularly for the "Wise consumer decision making" component. In
addition the Consumers' Association of Canada's version of consumer
rights and responsibilities are available.
Social Studies 16,
13, and 10.
Social Studies 16,
13, and 10 students can
use the Consumer Advocacy link to support
the Citizenship themes that are part of these courses. The organizations
that can be found using the links are involved in all aspects of citizen
involvement in the community. The activities of these groups range
from physically supporting consumers with health problems to representing
consumers at Public Utility Board hearings. In addition some of these
organizations represent consumers on national and international committees
that are negotiating standards and developing legislation.
Social Studies Classroom Resources
2Learn
NetSteps pages are curricular resource pages prepared primarily by
Alberta teachers on a variety of topics, units, themes and subject
areas related to the Alberta curriculum. Social
Studies resources are available from K-12. http://www.2learn.ca/currlinks/2teach/netsteps/1NSindices/NSss.html
Social
Studies Lesson Plans from the Community Learning Network. The
Community Learning
Network is designed to help K-12 teachers integrate technology into
their classrooms. We have over 250 menu pages with more than 4,700 annotated
links to educational WWW sites, as well as over 100 WWW resources of our
own -- all organized within an intuitive structure. In the last 2.5 years,
visitors from 154 different countries have made over 12 million hits on
the CLN Web site. http://www.cln.org/cln.html
The WebQuest
site is designed to serve as a resource to those who are using the
WebQuest model to teach with the web. The webquest
collection contains excellent examples and materials developed by Webquest
users.
The Social
Studies Council (SSC http://www.socialstudies.ab.ca/) seeks to promote
the study of social studies in Alberta and constantly improve the teaching
of social studies. It is a specialist council of the Alberta
Teachers' Association http://www.teachers.ab.ca/.
Student Resources
PinkMonkey.com
website, launched November 1998 -the world's online resource for quality
educational study aids delivered right to your desktop! The PinkMonkey
site is designed to assist high school and college students with research,
report writing, study assistance, and testing. http://www.pinkmonkey.com
Education News and Issues
Education
News and Issues wants to be the place on the World Wide Web for people
interested in education reform, schools, and the policies that guide them.
Their site is found at http://cee.indiana.edu/.
Education
Week on the Web at http://www.edweek.org. This site is maintained
by Education Week magazine and has a wide variety of information or links
to other site, concerned with education issues and events.
McRel
Internet Connections ,a list of education related internet resources,
is found at http://www.mcrel.org/connect/index.html. The sole purpose of
the site is to provide an extensive list of links to educational resources
to help people find the appropriate application of technology to improve
teaching and learning in diverse settings.
The Educational
Policy Analysis Archives publishes research reviews and scholarly
writings on all aspects of education policy. It seeks to illuminate educational
practice at all levels: primary, secondary and tertiary and in many nations.
Articles from a wide variety of disciplinary bases are welcome; nor is
the focus of the Archives limited to or slanted toward any particular method
of inquiry or analysis--neither quantitative, qualitative, empirical or
rational. The site is found at http://olam.ed.asu.edu/epaa/.
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