Monthly Theme: October
Across Canada, October is a month of both appreciation and awareness of coming changes: harvests come in, leaves show their colours, days shorten and become cooler, and animals eat to fuel migration and prepare for winter. Fall is in the air, and it is a fitting time to dig in and hone key skills, review essential concepts, and top up our levels of support, encouragement, and confidence—in short, to prepare for the new challenges and successes of the months and seasons ahead. With this in mind, October's theme is Preparation and will feature collections that help students equip themselves with competencies and core knowledge to excel academically and personally.
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In 1992, the Government of Canada designated the month of October to highlight the achievements of extraordinary women throughout Canadian history. In October, we also celebrate the UN’s International Day of the Girl (October 11) and Persons Day (October 18). Use the links in this collection to explore some Edwin materials that can support Women’s History Month. Please check that you have downloaded the most recent version of this annual collection.
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More Featured Collections for October
Extreme weather events have been all over the news—from wildfires to flooding to record-breaking heat. Now, researchers at Stanford University in the US have created a machine learning model (AI, artificial intelligence) that’s helping to predict extreme precipitation events.
Use this Current Events collection to spin off discussions of weather and climate, the social impacts of climate change, and the opportunities and limitations of machine learning.
This collection gives students a chance to review the four historical thinking concepts that help historians think about events, developments, and individuals from the past—historical significance, cause and consequence, continuity and change, and historical perspective.
This collection gives you a chance to review your understanding of the four geographic thinking concepts that help geographers think about place—interrelationships, spatial significance, geographic perspective, and patterns and trends.