Primary Junior Social Studies, History and Geography

The Education Libraries on both the Thunder Bay and Orillia campuses support your teaching of Social Studies, History and Geography by offering a wide variety of teaching resources.

Resources are selected and linked in the categories on the left side of this guide. 

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The Education Libraries in Thunder Bay and in Orillia offer teaching materials (both print and electronic) for teaching Social Studies, History and Geography in the elementary classroom.  To find additional books and teaching resources use the library's  Omni search tool with these subject headings:

• Social sciences--study and teaching--Canada
• Social sciences--study and teaching (primary)
• Social sciences--study and teaching (primary)--Canada
• Social sciences--study and teaching (elementary)
• Social sciences--study and teaching (middle school)
• History--study and teaching (elementary)
• History--study and teaching (middle school) 

Grade & topic specific teaching materials are listed on the sub-pages of this guide.

Non-Fiction books on various social studies topics for Kindergarten to Grade 12 students are available in the Education Library's Juvenile Non-Fiction Collection.  These titles can also be found by searching the library's  Omni search tool with these subject headings:

• World War, 1914-1918--juvenile literature
• Canada--history--1867-1914--juvenile literature
• Frontier and pioneer life--juvenile literature
• Energy conservation--juvenile literature

Non-Fiction K-12 Ebooks are available by selecting the "Library K-12 Ebook Collections" tab on this guide. 

Children's Stories on various topics are available in the Children's/Young Adult Literature Collection guide.

You can limit your search results to show only books from a particular library:

Or limit your search results to find ebooks: