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This article describes how pre-service teachers created imovies - digital photographic computer programs showing still and video pictures with music and voice - for use in elementary social studies. The project and the text of the imovies demonstrated a range of economic and technology outcomes. The Imovies depicted such themes from Canadian economic history as contact, immigration, settlement, and resource development taken from those stipulated in the elementary social studies guide for teachers in British Columbia schools.

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(1997) Inquiry in social studies. In Wright

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(eds.) Trends and Issues in Canadian Social Studies (pp. 313–332). Vancouver: Pacific Press.

Frairs

(2003) Beaver pelts. Video and Imovie, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia Okanagan.

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Newmarch

(2003) Settlement of the West. Video and Imovie, University of British Columbia Okanagan.

Robertson

(2003) Salmon. Video and Imovie, University of British Columbia Okanagan.

Swabey

(2002) Chinese immigrants in Canada. Video and Imovie, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia Okanagan.

Thompson

(2003) The Okanagan: Then and now. Video and Imovie, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia Okanagan.

Van Sledright

(2002) In Search of American Past: Learning to Read History in Elementary School. New York: Teachers College Press.

Imovies,Pre-Service Teachers and Economic History Themes1

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