A dialectical essay presents a controversial problem and develops two opposing arguments or sides of the issue, citing evidence for both. At the end of a dialectical essay, a thesis or conclusion must be reached and adequately explained. This essay topic is: Should Canadian Military Battles in WWI be Credited With Helping to Create a "Canadian Identity"?

Covering both U.S. and world history topics, History Reference Source (formerly the History Reference Center) is a full-text database featuring historical reference books, magazines, journals and thousands of primary source documents. 

Option 1: RESEARCH Top 3 flight contributions

CRITERIA:

Create a magazine entry or a digital story telling creations, which includes 3 paragraphs (& pictures) on what you consider to be the top 3 biggest contributions to flight. Make sure to list your references. If you are doing a digital story telling creation you will only need a rough copy and not a good copy.
Make sure you are including how it impacts humans and your daily life.
Option 2: Create an online timeline

Create a timeline using an online tool from one of the tools suggestion from the article below (or any other ones you may find!):

Many of us enjoy watching traditional year-end holiday movies and television specials. At SimpleK12 we also enjoy exchanging trivia questions about these holiday programs with our friends, families, and Teacher Learning Community members.
Over the years we’ve compiled a list of these questions and we thought you would enjoy them too. We encourage you to challenge your colleagues, students, and friends with these questions.

For most of Canada’s existence, the teaching of its history has omitted the many racist laws, horrors, abuses and genocide perpetrated on the Indigenous Peoples of this land. This mini-lesson follows Murray Sinclair as he demonstrates that the colonial narrative that shaped Canada’s version of history tokenized, dehumanized and erased the many contributions and innovations of Indigenous Peoples and their key role in shaping what is now known as Canada.

CoordiKids is happy to offer the series of downloadable tools for teachers: The How Do You Feel? Curriculum for teaching self-regulation to children.

How Do You Feel? is a curriculum designed for elementary school teachers. The kit is geared toward helping children ranging in ages from 4-12.

What’s Included: The How Do You Feel? Curriculum from CoordiKids
- The “How Do You Feel?” Chart
- 6 Lesson Plans
- Visual Aids
- Worksheets
- And more!

By clicking on the "Home" tab, you will also find:
- Home Course
- Preschool Course
- Classroom Brain Break Course
- Homeschool Brain Break Course
- Master Classes
- Starter Packs (Sensory Processing and Dyspraxia)

This site offers lots of how to draw projects to try.

How do we teach students to identify fake news?
In a world where it is increasingly dangerous to simply trust what we read and see.

There is a fact sheet available for download as well.

This balloon LEGO car activity is easy and simple, and it’s a fun time for the entire family! Be sure to check out the LEGO zip line for the minifigures too!

If you like to play music on your cell phone you’ll find lots to love about this wooden phone amplifier. It provides an attractive platform to cradle your phone while playing music, and it boosts the sounds level by 8-10 dB (decibels) while also distributing the sound around the room using a megaphone style sound enhancement.

As an added bonus, the project includes clever cable routing so that the amplifier can also be used as a charging station.

This site offers how to draw tutorials on facial expressions (cartoon) and much, much more.

Kids will love making these paper bracelets out of all kinds of paper! Be sure to check out the Picklebums home page at https://picklebums.com/. They offer activities for kids, fun food activities, articles on parenting, free printables, and much more.

These tutorials will teach you how to draw animals, people, flowers, landscapes and more.

This lesson is specifically designed for chapter 4 of The Hunger Games. The students fill in the Choice Map collectively to look at a way to contribute to their communities. After they complete their map, they can write about the experience in order to reflect upon it.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in an igloo?It would be pretty cold compared to the houses we live in now. Could you imagine living with over forty other people in one big house? Living with that many people would be like sharing a house with your whole class and all the teachers in your school!

The environment that we live in affects everything that we do. Canada is a country with a lot of different environments. There are parts of Canada where the temperature is freezing and all you can see is snow for most of the year. There are places where it rains a lot of the time and places where it is very dry. There are places that have mountains and some that are flat. There are rivers, lakes and oceans. Canada has a very diverse landscape.

In the past, First Nations were the only people living in Canada.They are the First Nations because they were the first occupants of North America. In Canada, each First Nation had to adapt to their environment in different ways. The houses they built, the food they ate, and the activities they did were all greatly affected by the environment they lived in.

Here you can look at three different aboriginal cultures from three different parts of Canada: the Huron, the Haida, and the Inuit. You can compare them to see how different their ways of life were because of where they lived.

Teaching resources available.

Discuss with your students what it means to be Canadian. Start by watching this short commercial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRI-A3vakVg (You may choose to cut the beverage part out at the end or just use the sound at that point in the video.)

All other materials you need to do are attached including a rubric, parent letter, project planner with choices.

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Final projects can help students summarize and review content from the entire semester. Plus, they can create fantastic products with what they've learned!

Projects let students take what they’ve learned, put it all together and show off a little of their own creativity and personality.

Options include:
1. Create a website
2. Create a screencast video
3. Make a single multimedia webpage
4. Connect with a cause
5. Create an infographic
6. Create a series of podcasts
7. Do a genius hour-style project
8. Create an annotated collection
9. Tell it as a story
10. Make an explainer video