Welcome to our Great Resources Page containing the fabulous resources we use during our activities and beyond. Please note all links below go to external webpages.
Beyond Classrooms Kingston Recommends:
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- Beyond the Classroom Network Drawing Instruction
- Beyond the Classroom Network Writing Instruction
- Creating a Nature Journal
- How to Start an Open Minds Site
- Open Minds: Constructing Learning in the Community
- Using Community Resources to the Fullest
- Rethinking Learning Environments: Community as Classroom
Open Minds Network
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- Beyond the Classroom Network - Great blogs and resources used in Open Minds sites
Other Open Minds Sites
Gillian Kydd and Where it all began
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- Seeing the World in 3D
- Cathy Cochrane (2000). Creating thoughtful writers: A study of the Campus Calgary/Open Minds program
- What Do You Notice: Taking Schools to Art
- Celebrating 30 Years of Learning
- Celebrating 25 Years of Learning
- 25 Years of Campus Calgary
- 30 Year Timeline of Open Minds
- The Big History Lesson by Margaret Holtschlag
- Communities Hold Many Lessons
- Gillian Kydd. “The Chevron Open Minds Project and Current Research.” Alberta Museums Review 23, 3 (Spring 1997): 39–40
- Looking Reality in the Eye: Museums and Social Responsibility. Robert R. Janes and Gerald T. Conaty, eds. Calgary, Alberta: University of Calgary Press, 2005. 196 pp.
Partner Site Resources and Links
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- Agnes Etherington Art Centre
- Bellevue House
- Kingston City Hall
- Frontenac County Schools Museum
- Military Communications & Electronics Museum
- Miller Museum of Geology
- Museum of Health Care at Kingston
- Kingston School of Art
- Museum of Lennox & Addington
- Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston
- PumpHouse
- Tett Centre for Creativity and Learning