In July 1990, a dispute over a proposed golf course to be built on Kanien’kéhaka (Mohawk) lands in Oka, Quebec, set the stage for a historic confrontation that would grab international headlines and sear itself into Canadian consciousness.
Contains scenes of violence. Includes discussion prompts.
Canadian Geographic: Educator Resources, Grade 11
From Canadian Geographic, this webpage includes lesson plans on many topics, such as energy and natural resources, climate change and environment, regional geography, and geographic skills. Lesson plans can be filtered by grade and topic.
E-Learning Ontario: CGG3O
From E-Learning Ontario, this resource includes four units for travel and tourism: traveling like a geographer; making travel and tourism sustainable; the past, present and future of tourism; and the challenge and change of travel and tourism.
Travel and Tourism: Ecological Cost
This lesson plan, from EcoSchools Canada and written specifically for CGG3O, leads students to calculate the ecological impact of travel. This impact helps to guide future tourism policies and behaviours.
Understanding Active Transport
This activity, from the University of Guelph, introduces the concept of active transportation to students. Includes activities, videos, discussions, and readings. Written specifically for this course (as well as CGF3M and CGR4M).
Learn at Home: Grades 9 to 12
Activities and resources for high school students to do at home to supplement their learning.
Outstanding geography lessons / by
Ideas that can be used for homework, starter lessons, and full lesson activities.
100 Ideas for Teaching Geography by
This title takes a skills-based approach, with each section suggesting general ideas to use in everyday classroom teaching, including specific examples of how these can be used with a variety of modules from elementary through to high school.
Geography through enquiry : approaches to teaching and learning in the secondary school / by 
Multimedia Made Easy : Geography lessons using multimedia technology / by
The aim of this book is to develop teachers' knowledge and confidence in using multimedia technology in key stage 3 geography lessons. The seven exciting lessons show how five different multimedia technologies can be used in the classroom, including using mini video cameras to bring a climate graph to life and debate rainforest futures; using a blog for peer assessment; and using Google Earth for a virtual fieldtrip to the Olympic Park. The lessons are not intended to be used as an entire unit of work but should be dipped into and adapted for integration into current schemes of work. Some of the activities span several lessons and involve work outside the classroom.
Environmental and Geographic Education for Sustainability by
Geography, environment, sustainability, culture and education standing alone or in any combination, provide the ingredients for a variety of stews. They are all difficult to define and they generate endless debates for theoreticians and practitioners about their meaning and significance. The editors have divided the chapters that follow into two parts in an effort to unit these diverse disciplines. Part 1 is concerned with cultural foundations and curriculum issues related to geographical and environmental education for sustainability. Part 2 comprises a series of chapters presenting education for sustainability in the contexts of national cultures.
Teaching Global Citizenship by
Teaching Global Citizenship brings together perspectives from former and current teachers from across Canada to tackle the unique challenges surrounding educating for global awareness. The contributors discuss strategies for encouraging young people to cultivate a sense of agency and global responsibility. Reflecting on the educator's experience, each chapter engages with critical questions surrounding teaching global citizenship, such as how to help students understand and navigate the tension at the heart of global citizenship between universalism and pluralism, and how to do so without frightening, regressing, mythicizing, imposing, or colonizing. Based on narrative inquiry, the contributors convey their insights through stories from their classroom experiences, which take place in diverse educational settings: from New Brunswick to British Columbia to Nunavut, in rural and urban areas, and in public and private schools. Covering a broad range of topics surrounding the complexity of educating for global citizenship, this timely text will benefit those in education, global citizenship, curriculum development, and social studies courses across Canada. Features: Grounded in narrative inquiry, experiential learning, and teacher-based research. Includes study questions at the end of each chapter. Written by teachers for teachers with the accessibility of the material, diverse voices, and a broad spectrum of classroom settings in mind.