Profiling Canada is a program offered by Statistics Canada in partnership with Industry Canada's GrassRoots Program. It invites schools to develop an electronic portrait of Canada and Canadians based on data available on the Statistics Canada web site . Students are to use text and images to emphasize relationships or patterns in data which depict the development of the country, their region or community. All K-12 teachers in Canada are eligible to submit projects.
Funding depends on the type of project.
They are classroom-centred and may involve collaboration with other classes, depending on the project category. The result of the project is a shareable resource that is published on the Internet. Individual Projects are evaluated based on established evaluation criteria , and, if accepted, become Category A, B or C projects. They are more comprehensive in design as they require developing original resources using technology in unique and innovative ways. Block Projects are usually developed around a theme or unit of work and involve several teachers.