But not every class has a chance to go to the Montreal Biodome, to the Tadoussac Marine Center, to the Laval or the Alabama Space Camp. In this project we will help partner classes who cannot travel with classes going on a field trip, the travellers lending their eyes and ears to their Virtual Partners with Flat Stanley as their intermediary. Canadian teachers participating in this project are elligible for a GrassRoots Grant. This is an ongoing project. It offers a cross-curriculum program that is an invaluable tool for teaching history, geography, language arts and social studies.
Students search their home for objects from the past that are significant to their family.
They create narratives from their family's history and share their heirlooms with their classmates and the world. It also teaches children how to create their own pages on the web and share their discoveries and stories with the world. The Learning Circle , created to meet a pressing need for simple classroom activities that educators can easily fit in their curriculum. The simple activities included in each Learning Circle have been designed to help students learn more about First Nations and related issues through fun and interactive exercises. Some have already started to teach some aspects of this new curriculum on an experimental basis.