Cultural and Ethical Citizenship
1. Citizen Science
2. Stop Motion Animation
3. Astronomy & Stargazing
4. Virtual Field Trips
5. Coding & Robotics
6. Weather Tracking
7. Plant a Garden
8. Music & Sound Experiments
9. Augmented Reality Science
10. Other Experiments & Simulations
High-quality digital tools for kids that are both educational and entertaining.
Author: Lee Watanabe-Crockett
This is a phenomenal gathering of web sites that include resources to teach:
Digital footprints
Citing Sources
Detecting Plagarism
Personal Responsibility
Global & Cultural Awareness
Safe Web Searching
A Trading Nation
Canada has always been a trading nation and commerce remains the engine of economic growth. As Canadians, we could not maintain our standard of living without engaging in trade with other nations.
Lessons are sequentially designed to build vocabulary, explain democracy, examine municipal, provincial/territorial and federal governments, and explore different levels of government in relation to health.
This unit plan overview provides links to all lessons along with links to accompanying teacher support materials that include: Student worksheets and answer guides for individual lessons and inquiry activities with support materials
Do you know the answer? Take the Challenge to discover how much you know about Canada!
Canadians are proud of their citizenship. We value the rights and freedoms and accept the responsibilities that this status gives us
Browse the activities in this section, or download them all as a pdf file. These activities explore three themes: celebrity, impact, and citizenship. The activities encourage students to view Canadian personalities and events from multiple perspectives. Each activity contains a lesson plan and blackline masters suitable for photocopying. Research skills, presentation, achievements, influential Canadians,
Browse the activities in this section, or download them all as a pdf file. These activities explore three themes: celebrity, impact, and citizenship. The activities encourage students to view Canadian personalities and events from multiple perspectives. Each activity contains a lesson plan and blackline masters suitable for photocopying. Research skills, presentation, persuasive arugment, influential Canadians,
Browse the activities in this section, or download them all as a pdf file. These activities explore three themes: celebrity, impact, and citizenship. The activities encourage students to view Canadian personalities and events from multiple perspectives. Each activity contains a lesson plan and blackline masters suitable for photocopying. Research skills, presentation,interview, multiple perspectives, influential Canadians,
This Module examines the ways in which culture influences the daily interactions that occur across all classrooms and provides practice for enhancing culturally responsive teaching (est. completion time: 1 hour).
The Global Digital Citizen Foundation is a fountain of resources for teachers that are trying to stay current. There are videos available and you can download the guides. Included are full lessons/handbooks for the following fluencies:
Solution
Information
Creativity
Media
Collaboration
Global Digital Citizenship
These guides are designed by the Global Digital
Citizen Foundation to help you gain a better
understanding of the 21st Century Fluencies and
how they work.
This guide contains a description of the tenets of
Global Digital Citizenship, as well as a perspective on
the skills each stage develops and why they are
important for our students?and everyone?to learn.
We hope this information will help you with the
development of the Fluencies as you work to infuse
them into your students' learning experiences.
This scavenger hunt can be edited to fit the needs of your students!
In this activity students create a mobile that guides them through citizenship, rights and responsibilities.
Includes student handouts.
This resource can be found online through Citizenship and Immigration Canada. The classroom-friendly student activities are designed to increase understanding of the role immigration has played in Canadian history and society.
These student handouts contain good background information on the history of citizenship in Canada, as well as decision making.
PA. 9.3 Investigate the roles and responsibilities of members of the societies studied and those of citizens in contemporary Canada.
This file contains 5 lessons and an assessment:
Lesson one: Criteria for citizenship – Canada
Lesson two: Oppression of Rights
Lesson three: What rights and responsibilities do Canadian citizens have?
Lesson Four: Rights and Responsibilities of citizens in an ancient society
Lesson Five: Roles within Societies
Discuss with your students what it means to be Canadian. Start by watching this short commercial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRI-A3vakVg (You may choose to cut the beverage part out at the end or just use the sound at that point in the video.)
All other materials you need to do are attached including a rubric, parent letter, project planner with choices.
Apply to sponsor a family member, refugee or foreign worker to come to Canada, adopt a child from abroad, get proof of your Canadian citizenship, travel and work abroad, celebrate citizenship or get a passport.