Community
Studies: Publications
Rich Tasks -- Critical Thinking
Rich Tasks and Other Exercises |
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| Public vs. Private Education | Pioneers in the Benefits of De-Streamed Classrooms |
| The Ontario Curriculum in 1890 | Learning by repetition has its merits; Be an Education Consultant |
| Oral History -- Education: 1920s and 1930s | Design an Oral History Interview Project |
| Agriculture and Safety | Being careful, Knowing what you're doing, safety in the food chain; Agriculture as a system of integrated technologies |
| Agriculture as a Business | Creating a new Institution |
| Fairness and Equity | Equitable Distribution of Family Assets; Equity in Historiography |
| Classification and Properties of a Class of Objects | Math / Data Analysis -- Lowland Occupations in 1790 |
| Short Play for Public Schools | Burns Supper in Scarborough, Jan. 25 1834: Values of the Immigrants |
| Integrated Learning Lesson Plan | Social Studies, Technology, Math and English using Scarborough's first Council Chambers as a Learning Resource |
| The Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions | The Concept of Change |
| Technology-- Structures | |
| Immigrant Values: Building a Country | Character Education |
| Learning Unit: Agriculture | |
| Recreation Learning Unit | |
| Education Learning Unit | |
| Learning Unit: Housing, Homelessness, Heat and Hardship | |
| Public Service Learning Unit | |
| Character Education Learning Unit | |
| Health Care Learning Unit | |
| Learning Unit: Immigrants and Land | |
| Transportation Learning Unit | |
Recommended McCowan Society Publications
- When the Ground Fails: An Economic Watershed
- To Sustene the Personis: The Agricultural Revolution
- Fairs and Frolics: Scottish Communities at Work and Play
- Neigh the Front: Exploring Scarboro Heights
- St. Andrew's 150 Years Ago
Other Recommended Reading
- The Lowland Clearances: Scotland's Silent Revolution, 1760-1830, Peter Aitchison and Andrew Cassell, Tuckwell Press
Note: The above seven publications (and others) are available from The James McCowan Memorial Social History Society, c/o 19 Monarchwood Cres., Don Mills, Ontario, Canada, M3A 1H3, 416-447-4895 (bea@beamccowan.com). Please print a copy of our order form on this page: www.beamccowan.com/publicat.htm.
Finding Aids On www.scarboroughrecord.com
- Volumes 1 to 8: Scarboro Heights Record
- Volumes 9 to 15: Scarboro Heights Record
Additional Bibliographies
- Lanarkshire and Scarborough
- Lowland Scotland
- Upper Canada
- Lesmahagow Parish: Potential Raw Evidence
Other Tools: Our Information Processing Program
- A Methodology for Teaching Information Processing
- Inputs and Resources -- Context and Evidence
- Information Processing Techniques
- Outputting "Better" Information -- Some Rules of Writing
- Exercises
- Seven Structured Thinking Skills
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