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Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Remembrance Day, 2014

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Source: www.amlegionauxwi.org

I'm still adjusting to a k-5 age group and found many of my Diigo bookmarked Remembrance Day online resources too scary and possibly troubling for our young audience.  The heartwarming "Halifax Seaport Farmers' Market Flash Mob" (4:42) below, however, is a great spring board for discussion.

 For more resources try Veteran's Affairs Canada video gallery




Here are eleven stories by Canadian Aboriginals from The Memory Project

Murray Mackenzie "Chief" Whetung

Teacher Michael McKay, Eaglesham, Northern Alberta, gets students to experience trench building and then sleeping in their dirt hole over night.  The below clip is from 2009, but McKay and his school are on their eighth year of this experiential learning Nov., 2014.

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