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Teacher Resources

The Teacher Resources section of Youth Source will provide activity and unit plans to help teachers involve their students in heritage and community-centered learning. For example, easy-to-use approaches to using oral history, the built environment and streetscapes, primary documents and historic photographs will be found here. 

Teaching Tools

• Introducing the Built Environment to Students.
• Project Management: a Project Checklist for People Who Prefer Them.
• Images on the Web.
• Putting Your Heritage Project on the Web.
• Using Primary Sources
• Using the Built Environment
• Using Oral History
• Using Photographs

Recommended Reading

• Purcell, Arlene.  Firedamp: How the Creation of a Play about a Disaster Rekindled Community in Coalhurst. 
  [This article appeared originally in Alberta Views Spring 1999.]

• Ridley, David. Teaching the Tangible: Student Learning through Local Heritage Studies. 

Workshops and In-service

Heritage Community Foundation: Literacy Through Heritage Workshop.

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