Do Social Media and Classrooms Mix?
This blog will help you to think about social media as a resource that you can use meaningfully to engage your students.
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Kids and Stress: How Much Is Too Much?
Coping with stress is a skill we need to teach at school across a wide breadth of subjects. It is a topic directly linked to the health curriculum, but it can be approached indirectly in media, social studies or humanities classes.
Drafting a Statement of Reconciliation with Students
NFB Education is proud to partner with the NCTR to help teachers educate students about Indigenous realities during National Truth and Reconciliation Week with a series of mini-lessons and a Statement of Reconciliation activity.
Portraits of Afghanistan to Engage High-School Students
Afghanistan is one country that’s experienced its fair share of conflict and tragedy over the decades. I’ve found that each of these NFB films below offers a way to help students really see the people of this nation—to understand the depth and complexity of their stories as they live through a series of enormous challenges.
No Longer Forgotten: Making Space for Métis Stories in the Classroom
Discover the often-untold history of the Métis struggle for recognition and understand the continued impacts of colonization on Métis.
Anti-Asian Racism: What Can We Learn from Our Past?
The theme for Asian Heritage Month 2021 is “Recognition, Resilience, and Resolve.” This is an occasion for people across Canada to recognize how the achievements and contributions of Asian Canadians have shaped what it means to live in a diverse and inclusive society.
Agence: Redefining the Film Experience
Agence kick-starts an entirely new way of experiencing moving pictures by using artificial intelligence (AI) to tell the story.
Hubert Reeves: Star Teller, Creator of Scientists
As Hubert Reeves explains, seeing the stars and the beauty of the celestial firmament can heighten one’s desire to understand the universe.
The NFB, Autism and Disability in the Classroom
For the past two years, I’ve been using some of the NFB’s interactive resources to enhance my students’ classroom activities. These autistic children, some of whom have intellectual disabilities, are between the ages of six and eight.
Discover Beyond the Ridge
Beyond the Ridge is a new, 6-part series of podcasts created to commemorate Remembrance Day 2020. Covering a wide variety of topics, the series allows you to get inside history and explore it fully.
MMIWG: Breaking the Silence, Starting the Conversation in Classrooms
How can we put a face on an Indigenous woman who’s gone missing or been murdered, and how do we restore a sense of her identity? Who is she? Where did she come from? Why was she killed?
Art for Science’s Sake
When used as a tool for teaching science, stop-motion animation can increase participation, engage different types of intelligence, and reveal students’ alternative conceptions.