Current Events for Canadian Schools

Resources

Additional material to support Current Events education

Teachers are encouraged to download the following resources. We're adding to this page on a regular basis, so please check back often to see what's new. To contribute an idea or an assignment, or to provide feedback, please contact us.

Assignments

Pre-Reading Activities

  • Sort and predict (coming soon)

Printables

  • Venn diagram Venn.pdf
  • Bingo grid (coming soon)
  • Find someone who... template Find_Someone_Temp.pdf
  • Web start (coming soon)
  • Facts chart (coming soon)
  • Cause-Effect diagram (coming soon)
  • Event map (coming soon)
  • This month in the news (coming soon)

Assessment

  • Criteria for assessing paragraph/essay writing assignments Para_Summary.pdf
  • Criteria for assessing map assignments
    Version 1 Map_Assign_#1.pdf
    Version 2 (coming soon)

Ideas

  • 8 ways to use What in the World?/Le Monde en Marche (coming soon)

It's easy to keep current with What in the World?

Your package will be a part of my classroom for many years to come!!!

M. Schneider, Grade 7/8 teacher, Saskatoon, SK