Study Commons
Where our facts come from
Kids should be able to trust what they read, and parents should be able to check it. Every reading lists its sources at the bottom, numbered to the paragraphs they support, with the date they were last checked.
The sources we use
- Government agencies: Environment and Climate Change Canada, Veterans Affairs Canada, Parks Canada, the Government of Ontario, NASA, NOAA and the U.S. Geological Survey
- Conservation authorities, museums and science centres
- Research journals and science-education publishers written for young readers
- Official municipal and organizer pages for local information, including every GTA outing
Clear labels
Original stories say they are fiction. Practice numbers, sample charts and made-up examples are labelled as examples, so they are never mistaken for real data. Diagrams show what they simplify.
When we get something wrong
We fix it on the same page, keep the address so links and bookmarks still work, and record what changed in the lesson’s notes. Early lessons have already been revised this way: estimated word counts were replaced with counted ones, a too-precise dinosaur age claim was removed, and an invented data table was labelled as practice data.