Learning Resources

Classroom Activities and Lesson Plans

• Resource List - Activities and Resources for Teachers
  
  
• Classroom Activity - Calendar Conundrum, explore the "day in the life" of an MLA.
  
  
• Classroom Activity - Student Bill Template, explore how to draft legislation in British Columbia.
  
  
• Classroom Activity - Library Statues, explore who is and who is not represented by the statues on the Parliament Buildings.
  
  

• Parliamentary Player Lesson Plan – The Missing Statues. Students will debate the historical significance of statues around the Legislative Library.

• Parliamentary Player Lesson Plan – The Five Cent Fight. Students will use ethical judgment to examine the chocolate bar protests of 1947.

• Parliamentary Player Lesson Plan – The Road to Democracy. Students will use the suffrage movement to explore continuity and change in the Legislative Assembly.

• Lesson Plans - New Curriculum Lesson Plans developed by teachers who attended recent B.C. Teachers’ Institutes on Parliamentary Democracy and those from years past (Archives).

Online Resources

• Discover Your Legislature

• Virtual Tour of the Parliament Buildings

Books and Posters

• Book - Parliamentary Alphabet [ English | French ]
  
  
• Book - Democracu and Parliament [ English ]
  
  
• Poster - The Legislative Chamber [ English | French ]
  
  
• Poster - The Parliamentary Alphabet [ English | French ]
  
  
• Parliamentary Glossary [ English | French | ELL ]

Reading Lists and Resource Lists

• Reading List - Democracy & Citizenship Fiction (Elementary)

• Reading List - Democracy & Citizenship Fiction (Secondary)

• Reading List - First Peoples Fiction (Elementary)

• Reading List - First Peoples Fiction (Secondary)

• Resource List - Civics and Poetry Resources for Teachers

Fact Sheets

Videos

For additional information and to order publications, please email: PEO@leg.bc.ca.