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How to Give Good Seminars and How to Lead Good Discussions

       

How to Write a Précis or Summary

       

How to Write an Annotated Bibliography

       

Data Matrix for the Video Antz

       

How to write Newspaper Articles and Editorials

       

Argumentative Essay or paragraph Rubric

       

Sample Student Tracking Sheets

       

From Bill to Law Poster/Flowchart Assignment Rubric

       

Politics Bulletin Board Assignment and Rubric

       

Interesting Electoral Facts for Canada

       

Famous Political Quotations Assignment

       

Diagnostic Division of Powers Quiz

       

Election 2000 - Analyzing the Numbers - Student Info Sheet

       

Election 2000 - Analyzing the Numbers - Answer Sheet

       

Globalization Essay Rubric

       

Introduction to Globalization Essay - Assignment Sheet

       

Who are the Key Players in Globalization? - Info Sheet

       

Government of Canada Video - Student Recording Sheet

       

Code of Hammurabi - Contemporary Applications

       

Code of Hammurabi - Information Sheet

       

A Tropical Misadventure - Creating a Society Group Simulation

       

ISMS - Group Seminar Assignment - Evaluation Sheet

       

ISMS - Group Seminar Assignment - Self/Peer Evaluation

       

ISMS - Group Seminar Assignment - Intro Sheet

       

Leadership Styles Datamatrix

       

Leadership Cue Cards

       

Outerspace Experience Answer Sheet (OHT)- Leadership Styles

       

Who is the Boss? - Student Question Sheet

       

Outerspace Experience Student and Teacher Answer Sheets

       

Possible Test Questions for Canadian Parliamentary Democracy

       

How to Distribute Marks Evenly in a Group work Scenario

       

Where do you fit on the Political Spectrum?

       

Seminar Evaluation Package - Great for Any Course

       

Senate Reform - What to do with the Senate? - Assignment

       

Terrorism Essay

       

Terrorism Essay - Evaluation Rubric

       

Types of Government - Student Work Sheet

       

Types of Government - Teacher Key

       

Types of Government - Continued - Teacher Info or OHT

       

What is Politics? - Information Sheet

       

Transitions and Connective Phrases - Great for Any Class

       

Determining the Final Grade

       

Essay Outline Sheet

       

Essay Evaluation Form

       

Seminar Peer Evaluation Forms

 

Cultural Symbols and the Characteristics of Place

Monuments, fortresses, and other public structures form part of the cultural landscapes of local, state, national, and world regions. They offer a wealth of opportunities for analyzing and explaining the distribution of peoples and their values, activities, and available resources. This lesson explores the cultures of ancient and modern people as reflected in their cultural symbols.

 

http://www.markville.ss.yrdsb.edu.on.ca/history/index.html

This website set up by Mark Melnyk is of interest for several reasons. If you are looking for a model of how to take a history course and put it on line, this is an example. Melnyk has sites for World History to 1600, 20th Century, World Religions, and Economics leading to useful information of interest to both other teachers and students. The link to Students Online Binder has teacher ready materials related to each of the courses including student handouts, rubrics, and assignment instructions. Online Resources has excellent links to topics specifically related both to the course and to the specific units studied, as well as student reference material for getting materials ready to post to the web themselves. Student Work posts the best of the student websites that have been developed by his students on course topics. [top]

 

Five and a Half Utopias By: Steven Weinberg, from The Atlantic Monthly

Despite its dismal record, the utopian impulse is by no means extinct. An eminent physicist looks at several of the guises in which utopian thinking is likely to appear during the century ahead -- and at the perils that lurk behind each one [top]


Jihad vs. McWorld By: Benjamin R. Barber, from The Atlantic Monthly

The two axial principles of our age -- tribalism and globalism -- clash at every point except one: they may both be threatening to democracy[top]

 

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