Learning Materials On-Line 2005, 2006 2007
List of 2005 participating schools.
Some secondary materials are appropriate
for grades 6-8 and some elementary arts activities are appropriate for
the secondary level. Shop around. If you have created materials you'd
like to see included as a resource for other educators, send them to angie.littlefield@dwac.ca
Secondary learning materials:
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Art: National War Museum
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Activities: 10
Activities for Secondary Schools
Remembrance
Day Sample Assembly
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Choral Readings: - Elementary or Secondary
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Drama: Creating
Soundscapes
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English: "In
Flanders Fields"
Creating
Soundscapes
Remembrance
Day Sample Assembly
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French: "Les
cimitieres flamands"
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History: "FREEDOM"
stories about 22 veterans,
Ennio Paola
(Della Quercia,
more
Della Quercia)
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Images: (larger
photos of veterans and girls, and Readiing and Remembrance bar)
Robert
"Kurt" Lavack and Tent
Robert
"Kurt" Lavack and Plane
Robert
"Kurt" Lavack and Squadron
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Intermediate Activities
- Links to Visual Resources:
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Harry
Palmer Gallery has a great variety of wonderful photographs
of war monuments, cemeteries as well as veteran's and their stories.
For example look up the story of E.A. Smoky Smith winner of the
Victoria Cross during the Italian campaign in 1943. http://www.harrypalmergallery.ab.ca
Canadian War
Museum has primary documents with newspaper articles as well
as photographs from a great variety of Canadian experience both
at the front and at home. http://www.warmuseum.ca
Some of the work of Canadian Artists during the Second World War
are available on the AGO website by calling up the artists name.
For example Alan Collier, Pasakeva Clark, Jean-Paul Lemieux,
Frederick Hagen, Barker Fairley and John Hall. http://www.ago.net
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Math: What we remember
- Music: "In
Flanders Fields" musical version includes music and lyrics,
Ennio Paola (Della
Quercia, Conductor's
Score, Della
Quercia music)
- National War Museum
- World War I Music - Three verses are provided with
the midi music for "It's
a Long, Long Way to Tipperary"
- At another site,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It's_a_Long_Way_to_Tipperary (underscores
between the words in the title) you receive four pages on the history
of this popular music hall and marching song and its composer and
lyricist.
- World War II Music - "There'll
Always Be An England" and other War Music. Although many
of the music links don't work, the lyrics are all there and good
student researchers should be able to follow the leads to find music
for these songs.
- Music from the Great War
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Choral Readings
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Oral Histories:
The Memory Project
Robert "Kurt" Lavack
more from Robert "Kurt" Lavack
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War
Poetry at http://www.angelfire.com/wa/warpoetry.
A student
poem on Remembrance Day on the Veterans Affairs web site at
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=history/other/native/remembrance
LT.
COL. JOHN McCRAE, M.D., [1872-1918] IN FLANDER'S FIELD, THE ANXIOUS
DEAD
Reply
to Flanders Fields,
by John Mitchell
Elementary learning materials:
Links:
- www.thememoryproject.com
- excellent Bilingual website with oral histories, speakers by area,
digital archives and study units
- www.vac-acc.gc.ca
- Veterans Affairs Canada. Bilingual site with youth/educator button
at top, materials for Remembrance Day and a unit "The Aboriginal Spiritual
Journey" (English)
- All
About Poppies from the Royal
Canadian Legion website: THE POPPY ... THE FLOWER OF REMEMBRANCE
gives an overview of John McCrae.
FLOWER OF REMEMBRANCE: SYMBOL OF
UNITY The author speaks of the need for Canadian unity. It ends with
the sentence, "The poppy, then, is a reminder of the need: a challenge
to each of us to seek out that spirit of unity which sustained our
forefathers and our country."
- Hastings
and Prince Edward District School Board, Belleville
- The seed from the poppy is often used in baking and cooking.
For example, many bagels are covered in poppy seeds and Poppy seeds are used in recipes for muffins,
cakes and breads. An extensive data base of Poppy Seed Recipes can be found at
http://www.poppyseed.org/html_recipes
- The War Amps have quite a number of videos available to purchase or borrow which would be appropriate
for class use. There are also nine music videos which are part of the War Amps Military Heritage Documentary
Series. The videos may be ordered on line and require about two weeks for delivery.
The videos vary in length from four minutes to 57 minutes.
The most recent addition to the collection is a video produced for the Year of the Veteran.
Music videos are available at http://www.waramps.ca/video/music.html
- Radio minute on John McCrae www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?id=13540
- Video minute is www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?id=10200
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War and Art by accessing the National War Museum at http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/warart_e.html there are four categories to access teaching materials that could be very useful. By clicking on the picture of the category you wish to explore you open a one aspect of this subject. The headings are Art and War (Australia, Britain, and Canada in the Second World War), Canvas of War (Masterpieces from the National War Museum), Military Munnings (Alfred Munnings one of England's finest painters of horses led a series of post war commissions), Second World War: Canada's War Artists Perspective (Canadian Painters participated in the War Records produced accurate images of fighting men, machinery, and the landscape of war).
- What we remember. Remembrance day occurs in Canada each November 11. It is a day of national commemoration for the more than 100,000 Canadians who have dies in Military service. The costs for Canada, with its relatively small population, have been substantial. At http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/remember/remembranceday_e.html. There is a chart which gives the statistics of population, numbers who served, as well as the number that died or were wounded in each of the major conflicts that Canada has taken part.
- Another superb World War I site is www.great.war.nl All materials are available to download from this Dutch site.
Press Releases sent:
October, PR
1, PR2, PR3
Honour
Roll of schools registered for Reading and Remembrance 2005
Reading and Remembrance
pdf downloads: Certificate of Participation,
Colour Poster
(large file), letter to Directors
of Education, Make your own Press Kit, Participating Schools/Boards,
Resource Materials, pdf
Sign-Up Form, On-Line
Sign-Up form, Unique Projects.
Photography by Angie Littlefield
Durham West Arts Centre • 72 B Old Kingston Road, Pickering Village, Ajax, ON L1T 2Z8
tel: 905-250-9891 • website: dwac.ca • email: info@dwac.ca