Student Resources

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World Book

 

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WB French

Click HERE for a users guide to World Book online.


Gale

 

Global Issues     Science in context    canada in cintext  Power search

 


EBSCO Host

EBSCOhost is a powerful online reference system accessible via the Internet. It offers a variety of proprietary full text databases and popular databases from leading information providers.

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BC Points to the Past

Point to the Past

 

 

 

 


Know BC

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Historica Canada is the largest independent organization devoted to enhancing awareness of Canadian history and citizenship.


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The Canadian War Museum is Canada’s national museum of military history and one of the world’s most respected museums for the study and understanding of armed conflict.

Aboriginal-Canadian Veterans


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“To enhance Canadians’ knowledge, understanding and appreciation of events, experiences, people and objects that reflect and have shaped Canada’s history and identity, and also to enhance their awareness of world history and cultures.” (Canadian Museum of History Act)


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What do you want to learn about British Columbia? Start with a subject, story, time or place.

Check out the BC Archives for a number of primary sources.  Click on the link below and use the search window at the top right side of the BC Archives page.

Search BC Archives

 

First Nations Research Guide for BC Archives, Royal BC Museum

This guide is intended to help researchers locate material on British Columbia First Nations at the BC Archives as well as to provide referrals to related resources available elsewhere.


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Aboriginal-Canadian Veterans


For more Aboriginal Content Resources:

Current Events, Politics, and Issues Resources

Residential Schools and Colonial Impacts


canada-historyFor access to primary sources, try:

Canadian History

This site allows you to search for primary sources.  Once in site, scroll down a bit and enter search term(s) in the Search window.


Digital Historical Resources from UVic and UBC

British Columbia and Pacific Northwest

These collections highlight history of the Province of British Columbia and the area generally defined as the Pacific Northwest. See also Victoria and Vancouver Island and East Asian and Asian Canadian Collections.

BC Historical Newspapers

Local newspapers reflect the social and cultural life of their communities and thus remain a vital source of information for community members and scholars alike. Enhancing access to this valuable information encourages the study of British Columbia history and brings research material to historians across the province and beyond.

The BC Historical Newspapers project features digitized versions of historical papers from around the province.  Date from 1865 to 1994. Access to the microfilm used to create this collection generously provided by the Royal British Columbia Museum and British Columbia Provincial Archives.

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Senior Research Skills

For a list of tools to support your research skills click HERE

 

Teacher Resources

 Google Earth

Zoom into any place on Earth.  Or use Voyager to go on a virtual tour.

Explore the far reaches of the world!


The Critical Thinking Consortium

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Creative Commons

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Share, Remix, Reuse — Legally! Creative Commons works to increase sharing, collaboration and innovation world-wide.  Additionally, access their free tools to inform people how they can reuse and share your creative works.

Click HERE to access.


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Council Ministers Education – Copyright Info

Copyright Matters!

Click HERE for more on Copyright Information for Teachers.

 

Curio.ca

Click HERE to access CURIO.Ca

 

For a quick reference of some suggested programming, view  the  English 2016/2017 Catalogue. In French 2016/2017 Catalogue French.

 

Royal Bay Secondary School has a subscription to the Curio.ca platform, our IP authentication services enable you to screen CBC and Radio-Canada content anywhere inside your institution without creating an account.

However, if you would like to create playlists and view from home, you’ll need to create an account:

 

HOW TO OPEN AN ACCOUNT: 

 

  1. Look for the Login button in the upper right corner.
  2. Enter the access code.  This code can be obtained from the RBSS LC or retrieve it from the password protected online textbook page.
  3. Fill out the short registration form and hit Continue.
  4. An activation link will be sent to you by email.
  5. When you receive your activation email, follow the link and enter your email and password to login.

Return visitors

Once you’ve set up your Curio.ca account, on return visits you can use the same Login button to enter your email and password.

Please note that teachers and students that have already created an account last year, can continue to view the content with the same email and password. If they have forgotten the password, they can click on (forgot my password).

CBC Digital Archives

The CBC Archives team has been a unique collaboration of creative teams in Toronto working together with archivists and educational writers across Canada.  Students can search the database for topics of interest.  Teachers will find ideas for incorporating CBC’s Radio and TV archives into your classroom along with lesson plans and activity sheets, which you can download. All our materials are provided at no charge.

Click HERE to access these resources.