Resources
Welcome to the Can Geo Education’s online resource section.
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Giant floor maps:
Canadian Geographic Education’s giant floor map program is an innovative approach to teaching Canadian students about geography. Through the roughly 11-metre by 8-metre floor maps, students complete activities that take them out of the classroom and into the great big world of geography.
Tiled maps:
Download free pdfs of any of Canadian Geographic Education’s tiled maps and accompanying teaching sheet to encourage students to explore Canada piece by piece.
Lesson Plans: ready-to-use lesson plans on a variety of topics that were written by qualified Canadian Geographic Education teachers and are available for the appropriate curriculum within each provincial and territorial jurisdiction
Classroom Activities: ready-to-use
classroom activities on a variety of topics with some using maps produced by Canadian
Geographic
Teaching About Geographical Thinking: teachers wanting to engage students in geographical thinking through critical inquiry will find this book a very welcome resource
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Did you know that a 2005 National Survey determined that one-third of
adult Canadians can be considered “geographically illiterate”?
Top 10 reasons to study geography…
Find out now!
“Geography is the lens for the soul of the earth. With the knowledge of geography, one can examine the earth’s past,
assess the present and predict future situations. You can literally be ‘lost’ without geography!”
— Beth Dye, Canadian Geographic Education member
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