Critical Challenges Across the Curriculum

Critical Challenges Across the Curriculum is an award winning series of resources focused on infusing critical thinking into the teaching of subject matter at various grade levels. Each book contains critical challenges and suggested activities for teachers to use in developing the intellectual resources that students require to thoughtfully explore the subject matter. The activities are complemented by reproducible blackline masters and assessment rubrics.

Cross-curricular

Primary (K – 3)

Critical Challenges for Primary Students

English

Secondary (8 – 12)

Critical Challenges in English for Secondary Students

Social Studies

Primary (K – 3)

Celebrating Families
Contributing to Family and Community
I Can Make a Difference
Rights, Roles and Responsibilities

Intermediate (4 – 7)

Brazilian Rainforest
Managing Our Natural Wealth
The Resourcefulness of the Inuit

Intermediate/Middle (4 – 9)

Legacies of Ancient Egypt
Selected Challenges in Social Studies – Intermediate/Middle School

Intermediate/Middle/Senior (4 – 12)

Active Citizenship: Student Action Projects
Caring for Young People’s Rights

Middle/Senior (7 – 12)

Globalizing Connections: Canada and the Developing World
Exemplars in Historical Thinking: 20th Century Canada

Middle (7 – 9)

Critical Challenges in Social Studies for Junior High Students
Early Contact and Settlement in New France
Joan of Arc and the Hundred Years’ War

Senior (10 – 12)

Immigration in the 20th Century Canada
Snapshots of 19th Century Canada