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Canada and the Great War 1914 - 1918
Educational resource kit

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Order your Canada and the Great War 1914 - 1918 Education Resource Kit by calling toll free 1-877-604-8469, or faxing your order to 1-902-566-8501.

Includes: videos, music CD, teacher's resource guide & 2 posters
Grades 7 - 13
Cost: Free

Canada and The Great War, 1914-1918

This multi-media kit comes in an attractive three-ring binder and contains:

Canada and the Great War 1914-1918 — A Nation Born
(19 minutes 30 seconds)
This video provides a general introduction to Canada's role in the First World War and presents a unique Canadian perspective.


RealVideo 56 | RealVideo 28.8

Innocence Lost, A Nation Found: Canada Remembers the Great War 1914 - 1919
(20 minutes)
This video documents 12 Canadian teenagers' visit to Vimy, France on a veterans' pilgrimage, and how they develop a new respect for what Canadian soldiers endured to capture Vimy Ridge in the name of peace and freedom.


RealVideo 56 | RealVideo 28.8

A 158-page Teachers' Resource Guide
The guide contains six easy-to-read sections to assist in preparing lesson plans and in-class learning. The guide contains in-depth historical research, suggestions for learning activities, excerpts from wartime diaries, wartime music and poetry, question and answer sheets, and full-colour Canadian war art.

Two full colour learning posters
The first depicts a soldier and his family (Canada 1914) and the second shows soldiers in the trenches during battle (Vimy 1917).

Music CD
The CD contains a short choir presentation of three well-known wartime songs.

The contents of this multi-media education kit will captivate and challenge students from grade 7 to 13 with a range of materials designed to help them understand the impact that the First World War had on Canadians and on our lives today. This comprehensive teaching kit provides an exciting opportunity to learn about the social drama and significance of Canada's impressive contributions to the Great War through Canadian eyes.

Educators and students provided input to Veterans Affairs Canada in developing this high quality resource, which is valuable for history, geography, Canadian studies and current affairs classes, and for Remembrance Day. Designed to give today's youth a better appreciation and understanding of the turbulent and critical years of the First World War, this resource helps show how this part of history still has an impact on our lives today.

Date Modified: 2001-06-04
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