Teacher Resources | International Women’s Day

March 8 is International Women’s Day. It’s a global day to recognize and celebrate women’s social, cultural, and political achievements. It’s also a time to raise awareness of the progress made towards achieving gender equality and the work that remains to be done.

Below are resources we’ve made for both primary and secondary students on the subject of gender equality.

Films and Mini-Lessons

French Enough

French Enough, Alexis Normand, provided by the National Film Board of Canada

At her family’s cabin on Wakaw Lake, Saskatchewan, renowned Fransaskois singer-songwriter Alexis Normand invites audiences into a series of candid exchanges about belonging and bilingualism on the Prairies.

Mini-Lesson for Our Maternal Home and Stories Are in Our Bones

Overarching Question: How can connection to land, ancestors and acts of reciprocity influence who you are, your sense of belonging, your overall wellness and who you want to become?

Status Quo? The Unfinished Business of Feminism in Canada, Karen Cho, provided by the National Film Board of Canada

Mini-Lesson for Status Quo?

Guiding Question: What progress has Canada achieved in addressing the objectives of feminism if defined as political, social, and economic equality?

Flawed, Andrea Dorfman, provided by the National Film Board of Canada

Mini-Lesson for Flawed

Guiding Question: What does it mean to have a healthy self-image, and why is it important? How can we develop our self-esteem?

Miss Campbell: Inuk Teacher, Heather Campbell, provided by the National Film Board of Canada

Mini-Lesson for Miss Campbell: Inuk Teacher

Overarching Question: How does Miss Campbell make connections between her Inuit culture and her lived experience in residential school to shape her life trajectory and change the lives of her students?

Mini-Lesson: The Legacy of Alanis Obomsawin / KZ8WADOWIALOKAW8GAN

Overarching Question: Why is it important to see, hear and share the voices, truths and experiences of Indigenous Peoples from their own lens, and how has Alanis Obomsawin been at the forefront of ensuring Indigenous truths are heard across Canada?

PD Session

Christina Ganev is a Hybrid Teacher-Coach of History with 16 years of experience in the Toronto District School Board. She has taught a range of Social Sciences, Humanities and English courses at the secondary level. She is most interested in anti-oppression and anti-racist teaching resources, approaches and practices.

During this PD Session, she shares her experiences on how to use the film, Status Quo? The Unfinished Business of Feminism in Canada in the classroom.

Playlists

Study Guides

Mary Two-Axe Earley: I am Indian Again

Overarching Question: How are Mary Two-Axe Earley’s life story and the equality movement she inspired still relevant today?

North Star

The five-episode NFB series North Star is a fascinating look at the life of Laurie Rousseau-Nepton, a Canadian astronomer from the Innu Nation. Viewers learn about many concepts in astronomy while gaining awareness of the ways in which science and Indigenous cultures connect via oral tradition and observations made in nature.

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