Learning Resources

The Parliamentary Education Office is pleased to provide learning resources for the public and educational materials for teachers.  

Please see the links below or review our Activities and Resources for Teachers summary document.

 

Classroom Activities and Lesson Plans

  • Activity - Calendar Conundrum, explore the "day in the life" of an MLA.

  • Activity - Student Bill Template, explore how to draft legislation in British Columbia.

  • Activity (bilingual) - Library Statues, explore who is and who is not represented by the statues on the Parliament Buildings.

  • Lesson Plans - Current Curriculum Lesson Plans developed by teachers who attended recent B.C. Teachers’ Institutes on Parliamentary Democracy and those from years past (Archives).

  • Parliamentary Player Lesson Plan – The Missing Statues. Students will debate the historical significance of statues around the Legislative Library.

  • Parliamentary Player Lesson Plan – The Five Cent Fight. Students will use ethical judgment to examine the chocolate bar protests of 1947.

  • Parliamentary Player Lesson Plan – The Road to Democracy. Students will use the suffrage movement to explore continuity and change in the Legislative Assembly.

  • Parliamentary Glossary [ English | French | ELL ]

 

Online Resources

 

Books and Posters

  • Book - Parliamentary Alphabet [ English | French ]

  • Book - Democracy and Parliament [ English ]

  • Book - Legislative Leaders Comic Book [ English ]

  • Poster - The Legislative Chamber [ English | French ]

  • Poster - The Parliamentary Alphabet [ English | French ]

 

First Nations talking stick pictured on the diagonal in the chamber

 

 

 

 

Reading Lists and Resource Lists

 

Fact Sheets

BC Symbols [ English | French ]   

 The Black Rod [ English | French ]

Role of the Executive Council  [ English | French ]

Black History in BC  [ English | French ]

Budget Process [ English | French ]

Role of the Speaker [ English | French ]

Hansard Services [ English | French ]

B.C. Coat of Arms [ English | French ]

Speech from the Throne [ English | French ]

Premiers [ English/French ] 

The Mace [ English | French ]

The Talking Stick [ English | French ]

Speakers [ English/French ]

The Parliament Buildings [ English | French ]

Women in the Legislative Assembly of BC [ English | French ]

Stained Glass [ English | French ]

 

 

Videos

Golden Jubilee Window Legislative Chamber Upper Upper Rotunda
Lieutenant Governor's Flagpole The Mystery of the Roof Top Construction ­ Up to the Dome
Alma Russell 
 Dr. Pandia Thomas Uphill

Francis Rattenbury  (lesson plan)

 Laura Jaimieson (lesson plan) Chocolate Bar Strike (lesson plan)

 

For additional information and to order publications, please email: PEO@leg.bc.ca.