Classroom Activities and Lesson Plans
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Resource List - Activities and Resources for Teachers
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Classroom Activity - Calendar Conundrum, explore the "day in the life" of an MLA.
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Classroom Activity - Library Statues, explore who is and who is not represented by the statues on the Parliament Buildings.
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Parliamentary Player Lesson Plan – The Missing Statues. Students will debate the historical significance of statues around the Legislative Library.
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Parliamentary Player Lesson Plan – The Five Cent Fight. Students will use ethical judgment to examine the chocolate bar protests of 1947.
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Parliamentary Player Lesson Plan – The Road to Democracy. Students will use the suffrage movement to explore continuity and change in the Legislative Assembly.
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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
Books and Posters
Reading Lists and Resource Lists
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Reading List - Democracy & Citizenship Fiction (Elementary)
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Reading List - Democracy & Citizenship Fiction (Secondary)
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Reading List - First Peoples Fiction (Elementary)
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Reading List - First Peoples Fiction (Secondary)
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Resource List - Civics and Poetry Resources for Teachers
Fact Sheets
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Premiers [ English/French ] |
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Speakers [ English/French ] |
Women in the Legislative Assembly of BC [ English | French ] |
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Videos
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