History Society launches special interest publication for history teachers

[This post has been updated] The publishers of The Beaver: Canada's History Magazine, have launched a special interest publication aimed at history teachers called Teaching Canada's History. There is an English and a French version  (Histoire Canada) with identical content. 

The print magazines have a companion interractive website, a digital version of the magazine with click-through images and boldfaced text scattered throughout the articles, connecting teachers to additional information,  lesson plans and resources. Canada's National History Society hopes that the venture will become an annual. 

The articles, some of which are adapted from The Beaver include a piece about 10 great field trips, how to challenge students in the classroom, how residential survivors share their stories and how to bring history to life for students. 

Mark Reid, the editor of The Beaver and one of two editors on this project says in his editor's note:

"Teaching Canada's history isn't easy in this fast-paced, Twitter-filled, Facebooking age we live in. Students today are more connected and web-wired than any preceding generation. To reach them, we need to speak their language. We need to opoen our minds, and our teaching, to new technologies and new teaching methods. As teacher Joe Stafford says in his article "Rewarding Risk, good things happen to teachers who take chances in the classroom."

[Update: according to a story in the Winnipeg Free Press, the magazine will be selling for $9.95 on newsstands and will be distributed to teachers at conferences.]