Sustainable Ecosystems – 7 Grandfather Teachings

Through a series of explorations involving the use of Indigenous People’s stories, students will learn about sustainable ecosystems and their importance to humans and how ecosystem health is vital for both terrestrial and aquatic environments. By deepening their...

Grassy Narrows Study

Asubpeeschoseewagong First Nation, also known as Grassy Narrows, is an Ojibway community 80 km north of Kenora, Ontario, with just under 1,000 members who live there. During the 1960s and 1970s a pulp and paper mill contaminated the soil and the nearby...

Two-Eyed Seeing and Biodiversity

The following activities are divided into three sections: Minds On, Action, Consolidation. While this outline approximates a traditional lesson plan, teachers are encouraged to mix and match the activities to meet their needs. It is expected that lessons on this topic...

Teacher Demo/Student Activity: Finding the electron

Prior to Thomson’s work it was thought that the atoms of each element were unique, invisible particles, or that atoms were made of subatomic particles that had significant mass compared to the atom as a whole. Thomson used Crookes tubes to disprove both of these ideas...

Teacher Demo/Student Activity: There’s Iron in your Cereal?

This demo shows how flakes of iron can be extracted from iron-fortified cereals with the use of a strong magnet. The demo shows a physical separation process and provides students with a good example of how one component (the iron) can be separated from a heterogenous...
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