By Paula Waatainen, VIU Faculty of Education
The Canadian Historical Association recently invited me to write a blog about an assignment I had my Social Studies Methods students do this fall. As we couldn’t do place-based field trips, perhaps the videos would allow each of us to invite everyone else along on field trips to sites in our communities where we can build historical and geographic thinking competencies. Read the blog here.
The assignment be found here
While a number of my students generously offered to make their videos available, I could only fit references to about half of them in the blog. Here is a full list. I hope to add more soon if I receive more waivers from students:
Historical Significance videos
Sheringham Lighthouse for grades 3/4 by Orieanna Hartley
Nanaimo Bastion for grades 4/5 by Janay Hansen
Shell Beach, Stzuminus First Nation for grade 3 by Adrienne Harris
Evidence videos
Frank Ney Pirate statue for grade 1 by Joanne Harvey
Transfer Beach for grades 1/2 by Emily Green
Shellfish Aquaculture Nanoose Bay for Geography 12 by Sarah Kerman
Continuity and Change videos
Robert Osler Park in Campbell River for grade 1 by Ana Christensen
Nanaimo Bastion for grade 4 by Brooke Archer
Maclean Mill National Historic Site for grade 5 by Samantha Jeffery
Departure Bay for grade 4 by Maggi Benoit
High Level Bridge in Edmonton for grades 3-7 by Lee Vanden Ham
Victoria’s Chinatown for grade 5 by Paige Cant
The Campbell River for grade 7 by Jesse Kennedy-Burgoyne
Cause & Consequence videos
Petroglyph Provincial Park for grades 3-7 by Tova Rae
Port Alberni Petroglyphs for K-12 by Sarah Stefiuk
Brechin United Church for grades 2, 4, 5+ by Zach Thompson
Coal Creek Park (former Chinatown), Cumberland for grade 5 by Sarah Stevens
Maffeo-Sutton Park for grade 6 by Ashlee Allbury
Historical perspective videos
Cottonwood Island Park, Prince George by Lyric Andersen
Doukhobor Discovery Centre, Castlegar for grade 4 by Kirsten Renz
Exemplar Videos
I filmed a couple of exemplar videos to provide to the students. In doing so, I realized just how hard it was to remember to say everything I had intended and not run way over time. The first video has me at Diana Krall Plaza imagining a field trip to discuss urban planning with grade 6 or Urban Studies 12.
I also brought two curious grade 4 students along to look at a mysterious relic along the Nanaimo River. What could it be? What evidence can we find to support one of the theories that I have been told? All in all a fun activity, but we left some of their more fantastical theories out of the video so they don’t later regret the existence of this video.
