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Lesson Planning

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What can you find?

The curriculum collection has materials that you can use for your practicum placements and when creating lesson plans. These include:

  • Teacher's guides
  • Lesson plans
  • Classroom readers
    • A few class sets
  • Books of worksheets and activities
  • Kits (such as puppets and math blocks)
  • Books that are written for elementary students (such as Eyewitness Science books)
  • Language learning resources
  • Books about teaching

Find the Curriculum Collection on the 3rd floor of the House of Learning. Look for the yellow signs on the side of the shelves that say "curriculum."

Browsing for Materials

One of the best way to find resources that you may need is to browse the shelves--you never know what you will find that you could use for your class! Because of the way these books are organized and catalogued, it's often more productive to browse in person than to search online.

Books in the curriculum collection are arranged by subject, just like the other library books. Not sure where to get started? Browse the shelves in the area you need materials for by looking at the call numbers on the book spines to find the section you need. Below are some of the broad subject areas you might need resources for. If what you need isn't listed here, ask your education librarian!

  • Call numbers starting with B: Philosophy, psychology, religion
  • D: World History
  • E 90 - E 99: Many Indigenous materials
  • FC: Canada
  • H: Social Issues
  • J: Politics
  • L: Education
    • For instance, assessment, evaluation, and literacy materials
  • M: Music
  • N: Fine Arts
  • P: Language and Literature
    • PM 2325: Secwepemc language resources
  • Q: Science
    • QA: Math
  • T: Technology

Browsing Tip: The year the book was published is often at the end of the call number, so you can easily tell how old a resource is.

Searching for Materials

Books (and ebooks!) can be found using Discover, the main library search on the homepage.

Tip: add words that are commonly used to describe teaching resources. Some of the most common include:

  • "study and teaching"
  • "juvenile fiction"
  • "curriculum planning"
  • "lesson plan*"

Here is an example of what that might look like:

Use the Refine Results sidebar to improve your search.

Limit To:

  • Catalogue Only -- will find only books in the library "catalogue" (books and ebooks we have purchased)
  • Print Books -- will find only physical items

Content Type

  • Click "show more" then choose "non-print resources" to find kits like math blocks.