Name: ELA and SS - Engaging Tasks Connected to Conflict
Start: 2025-02-20T10:30:00-0700
End: 2025-02-20T11:30:00-0700

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Thursday February 20, 2025 10:30am - 11:30am MST

PE261

Want to bring conflict and military history to life in your classroom? Want your students to connect to different challenges associated with people's experiences with conflict? Want your students to think critically and build skills? We will be looking at a variety of different conflicts connected to the curriculum (EG: War of 1812, Conquest of the Americas, Remembrance Day, etc.) in social studies as well as a variety of different ELA texts that have conflict as a theme (EG: The Sniper, War Poetry, songs connected to war and peace, etc.). Students get to explore and understand situations where individuals are interacting with conflict and war and the consequences individually and for society. There are many connections to be made to other times in world history to allow students to critically think about the movement of peoples. You will walk away with the complete lessons, activities, projects and resources.

Speakers

Joanna Zakus

Joanna has a BA History and a BEd Secondary Social Studies. She has been teaching primarily social studies and humanities for the last 20 years at the junior high level. Joanna currently is a teacher at a junior high school with the Calgary Board of Education. She focuses on interactive... Read More →

Nicholle Morrison

Joanna has a BA History and a BEd Secondary Social Studies. She has been teaching primarily social studies and humanities for the last 18 years at the junior high level. Joanna currently is a teacher at a junior high school with the Calgary Board of Education. She focuses on interactive... Read More →

Thursday February 20, 2025 10:30am - 11:30am MST
PE261

Language Arts (TQS 3), Gr 7-9 | Social Studies (TQS 3), Gr 7-9

SWATCA 2025 - South Western Alberta Teachers' Convention

Joanna Zakus

Nicholle Morrison

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