Learn the plight of children in developing nations. 3 lessons for young people 10-20 years of age. Eng/Fr - More
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TEACH
May/June2010
What's The Game
The Challenge
Curricula: Governance and
Canada's North
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NETTREKKER
It is no secret that technology is moving into the classroom and both students and teachers are benefiting.
PLATO'S CAVE
Starting in July 2010, a new course will be available online through Athabasca University. Media Literacy: Inside Plato's Cave....
SOLARO CONTEST
Students across Canada have the opportunity to win a new iPad by signing up online for an interactive SOLARO account.
VISA FINANCIAL SOCCER
In the gymnasium of St. Mary’s Catholic Secondary School in Toronto, over 50 students were awaiting the arrival of Toronto FC player Julian de Guzman and the Canadian launch of the Visa Financial Soccer game.
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MUSICOUNTS GRANTS
Schools across Canada can now apply for Band Aid musical instrument grants through MusiCounts. Band Aid Grants are anywhere from $5,000 to $10,000....
MOU FOR FIRST NATIONS EDUCATION
The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for First Nations Education in Alberta was signed a short time ago.
EXPLORICA
Explorica Inc. creates educational Treasure Hunt Tours for travelling teachers and students.
CREATING EMPATHY AND GRATITUDE
Dr. Karyn Gordon is an expert on youth, a family consultant, an author and much more. In her upcoming speaking tour, she will present to eight schools in the Toronto District School Board on the topic of 10 Practical Strategies to Develop Empathy and Gratitude in Children.
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Playing the Biology
On October 21, 2009, Aviva announced a donation of $10,000 to George Harvey Collegiate in Toronto to help build and stock a greenhouse for the school’s Jump Start Breakfast Program.
In the words of Bill Nye, “Science Rules” and it certainly does with the arrival of Canadian based, Genomics Digital Lab (GDL), an interactive online game that teaches students about core cell biology.
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Body Worlds, Anatomy and Art
The Ontario Science Centre in Toronto has just unveiled their latest limited engagement special exhibit, Gunther von Hagens’ Body Worlds 3, The Original Exhibit of Real Human Bodies and The Story of the Heart. The exhibit features over 200 authentic human specimens, including whole-body Plastinates, organs, and translucent body slices.
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WORLD TEACHERS' DAY 2009
October 5 is the annual World Teachers’ Day.
In Canada, this year’s theme is “Peace: Live it. Teach it”. Peace Education is about empowering people to create a safe world based on justice
and human rights and to build a sustainable environment and protect it from exploitation and war. Teachers serve as peaceful role models for their students. Peace education leads to peaceful living. On World Teachers’ Day, let’s make
“Peace: Live it. Teach it, a reality.
For more information, please visit
World Teachers' Day 2009 site
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ELECTRICITY AND ENERGY YOUTH CAMP
Summer camp has youth generating electricity with water guns, building solar race cars, and soldering complex circuits to control little robots.
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CANADIAN MYSTERIES
Everyone loves a good mystery. The “Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History” project invites users to try to solve some of Canada’s oldest mysteries.
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BEAD FOR LIFE SCHOOL PROGRAM
The new BeadforLife school curriculum is a five-day journey that begins by exploring the broader issues of resource scarcity and distribution to help students understand some of the causes of poverty. |
TOLERANCE EDUCATION
In Spring 2007, Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies (FSWC) celebrated the grand opening of the Resource and Leadership Training Centre at 5075 Yonge Street in Toronto.
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HOW TO READ, TODAY
Inanimate Alice is a new form of novel; an online, interactive experience that reels in your attention like a video game or movie. It is a matrix of blossoming themes and intriguing storylines.
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UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER
FOR REFUGEES: AGAINST ALL ODDS
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There are refugees in virtually every country around the world
and we hear about their plight on a daily basis through the media. People become refugees when one or more of their fundamental human rights are threatened or violated, and they are forced to
flee. Nobody chooses to become a refugee.
Link: www.unhcr.ca
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
has created an online simulation that allows students to
experience the obstacles, terror and choices people are compelled
to make when they are forced to leave their homes against their
will. Have students play the game. It is an excellent learning and teaching tool for your classroom.
Link: www.playagainstallodds.com
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The Orange Revolution Project: Focus on Human
Rights, Democracy and Good Governance
In November of 2004, a tent city in Kiev began to
form shortly after allegations of massive fraud
and irregularities surfaced regarding Ukraine’s
Central Election. - more |
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TRIUMF'S PHYSICS IN ACTION
TRIUMF’s Physics In Action educational DVD series combines educational resources and animated demonstrations of how high-school physics principles
are applied in a major international laboratory. Freely available for Canadian high schools, this second DVD in the series uses different stages of TRIUMF’s particle accelerator to give clear and simple demonstrations of
electrostatics, magnetism, potential and kinetic energy, and circular motion. Six lessons cover topics ranging from how ions are accelerated using electrostatic fields, so how the principles of electrostatics, magnetism,
and circular motion can ba used to separate exotic isotopes of different mass. See http://www.triumf.info/physicsinaction
to view the entire video and for
ordering information
"Physics in Action is grateful for major funding by NSERC PromoScience."
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Roll Play
From the Canadian co-producers of the This is Daniel Cook and This is Emily Yeung comes another wonderfully inventive and fun 13 part series! Aimed at JK to Grade 2, Roll Play is all about moving, jumping and having fun while acting out stories with the Famous People Players. Kids love to pretend, they love stories and they LOVE getting physical. more
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Get Outta Town
In this fast paced and very hip 13 part Canadian produced series, we join our adventurous hosts Joe and Barb as they travel to far off places all over world discovering how the everyday lives of the kids they meet differ from and are similar to what kids in Canada experience. more
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The Shakespeare Novels
With reading and language declining rapidly in the Digital Age, these books
get students engaging with Shakespeare: reading, discussing and writing
about his plays in the context of their present-day, media-filled lives. Shakespeare becomes useful, interesting and entertaining—the way kids
today need him to be.- more
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Book 1: Mr. X and the Circle of Death
Meet Xerxes Frankel--a bright, precocious 17 year-old who is the hip host of his own travel show. The first adventure takes him to Paris where, with his French sidekick, secretly rides down the Eiffel Tower in a match race. His friend, Octave Pompidou, gets into trouble with a strange street gang and unusual things begin to happen. All of which is captured on video for the show. Perfect for students who like adventure stories. Appropriate for ages 11-16.- more
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