The project will develop teaching and learning resources on climate change, authentic learning with certification resources, curriculum-linked map, student-featured instructional how-to-video as well as teaching and board staff training and network building. Researcher: Lewis Molot Project Theme: EcoCampus
The Ontario EcoSchools program engages elementary and secondary students and schools in more than 50 English and French language boards in learning and action that supports curriculum-linked learning about the environment. The annual grant aims to build capacity for curriculum-linked environmental education and action in Ontario schools and to support activities such as EcoSchools certification
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The project implemented a complete and practical training and research platform for clean energy technologies where project partners adapted and demonstrated a clean Canadian technology in Algeria. The technology was related to the optimization of solar charging stations backed up with energy storage for elective vehicle transportation, efficient lighting and electric bikes. The project developed
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The overall goal of this pilot project was to understand more about First Nations youth and how gambling affected their lives, in order to design community interventions that are respectful, relevant and healthy. Using arts-based activities, First Nations youth were engaged in talking and sharing circles to communicate the effect of gambling on their lives
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Storying Climate Change will create a public process of collaborative engagement focused on listening to, creating, and sharing stories about everyday experiences of climate change. Privileging Indigenous and environmental justice traditions in which stories are inextricable from environmental and social understanding, the project will include: 1. a workshop in which an interdisciplinary and multi-community group
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Ontario Ministry of Education (EDU) As part of the government's strategic commitment to environmental education, the yearly funding is used to build capacity for environmental education and action in Ontario schools such as curriculum development, certification programs, upgrading French language resources, web development and outreach activities across the province. More information at: http://www.ontarioecoschools.org/ Researcher: PI:
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Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) The research aimed to document ways in which communities perform their responses to violence in practices of remembering and forgetting. It also reviewed these performances against official responses to national inquiries and media reports, as well as analyzed the relationship between performed practices of remembering and forgetting in
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