Atlas of Canada

The Online Atlas of Canada is a fanstastic tool to use in class. The link provides lesson plans, printable maps, and thematic maps. If your school has an accessible and user-friendly computer lab, it might be a nice way to get out of the classroom and show how technology is being used social studies. Understanding maps is an essential technique that every student taking social studies should have. Treaties, war strategies, land claims, exploration routes, trade routes, and colony settlements all used maps to plan and assess. Students in grades 9 and 10 will probably have a lot of experience with paper maps, so exposing them to digital ones could spark an interest. Digital mapping techniques is also a highly employable field, with work in areas such as GIS, Remote Sensing, and Cartography.