History Cycle 1 Secondary
Welcome to the new dedicated Secondary Cycle 1 History page. Scan below to find learning strategies, document collections and more. If you are looking for Cycle 2 (grade 9 & 10) materials, or want to tour other feature sections, jump back to old main History page here.
Looking for Cycle 1 Geography? Click here!
DOCUMENTS AND LEARNING SCENARIOS
Christianization of the West. New: Document collection as Google slides.
(Related Student Task: What is the influence of the Church in the formation of the West?
Medieval cities: A world of knights or a world of merchants? Go to site
Characterize sedentary society? Go to site
Writing in Mesopotamia? Go to site
Athens democratic? Go to site
Romanization document collection (SWLSB and LEARN) Go to site
Romanization Task and Pillars of Rome Game (RECITUS) Go to site
European expansion & First Peoples Go to site
New Vision of Humanity: Reformation Go to site
Causes of American Revolution Go to site
Are you looking for Cycle 1 GEOGRAPHY tasks, docs and scenarios? Go to page
Cartograf Mapping Scenarios
The LEARN-RECITUS Cartograf mapping site is now bilingual and contains many sample mapping scenarios that can be used to demonstrate the tool for students, but also as learning scenarios and document collections in your classes. For example, view the Mercantilism trade and key players and the Reformation in Europe factors scenarios.
Cartograf Mapping site, tutorial videos and sample scenarios Go to site
Sample maps available as of September, 2022:
Sedentarization - Agriculture, Settlements,Trade
Mesopotamia-The Emergence of a Civilization
Mercantilism trade and key players
Curiousity Labs (Roman Empire and Athens)
SWLSB consultant Dan Hedges' recent share of his inquiry-based learning packages on developing questions on Rome and Roman maps, and on Athens and the Acropolis. A great complement to other document packages above, these includes graphic organizers and other tools.
Download Roman Empire Download Athen & Acropolis
Essential Learnings & Formative Questions
ETSB consultant Jean Provencial and his team from Galt Secondary have recently shared their package of useful "Essential Learnings & Formative Questions". It will be visible just below this paragraph, but only to teachers when logged in to LEARN. If your account doesn't work, request access to prombough@learnquebec.ca
MEQ (Previously MEES) Program Documents - Secondary
Below you will find various Ministry of Education program and evaluation documents for the Secondary Social Sciences domain. (Contact Paul R. if you find broken links!)
Quebec Secondary Programs in Social Sciences
The QEP program documents describe course aims, competencies to develop, and course content.
Cycle 1 History and Citizenship Education Download
Cycle 1 Geography Program Go to site Download
Cycle 2 History of Quebec and Canada Sec. 3 & 4 program Download
Cycle 2 History of the 20th Century Download
Cycle 2 Cultural Geography Download
Cycle 2 Financial Education Program Download
Cycle 2 Contemporary World Go to site (Or view PDFs for Four credits
Two credits
Note that the Ministry (MEES) Programs of Study page, where you will find these "General Education" Secondary School Programs and older programs too, is now online here: Go to site
Progression/Precision of Learning documents
Cycle 1 History & Citizenship Go to site
Cycle 1 Geography Go to site
Cycle 2 Contemporary world Go to site (Or view PDF's for Four credits or Two credits)
History of Quebec & Canada. (See instead "knowledge" within the program Download)
Evaluation Frameworks
Below are links to the individual evaluation frameworks. You can also visit the main MEES site and browse by subject to review them Go to site
Cycle 1 and 2 - History & Citizenship Education Download
Cycle 2 (New) History of Québec and Canada program Download
(Older) History & Citizenship Education framework Download
Cycle 1 Geography framework Go to site (Or Download
)
Contemporary World online version Go to site (Or Download
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Financial Education Go to site (Or Download
)
BAMD: MEES approved books site
Bureau d'approbation du matériel didactique
MEES sample "Document files" from training sessions
1608 and 1760 - Document File: Cities in Canada
1840-1896 - Document File: Socio-cultural expression
1896 to 1945 - Document File: Education and technical training
1896-present - Document File: Challenging capitalism
1945-present - Document file: Language issue
1980-present - Document File: Information Era
Origins to present - Document File: Inuit nation