Trust as predictor of student achievement
Educators: how can you develop a classroom culture based on trust? Discover an animated short film that can be used as a pedagogical tool.
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Canada Day Challenge… Accepted!
Meet our dynamic contest winner! Many talented students participated in the Canada Day Challenge, and you can hear all about Sarah's experience. Maybe you should enter next year, too. Spread the word!
Explore “Making Movie History: A Portrait in 61 Parts”, a new web doc series
Want to know more about how and why Canadian film culture came to be the way it is? Go straight to the source in our new interactive web doc! Interviews with poets, dreamers, and pioneers reveal the history of the NFB... and maybe even a bit about what movies mean to Canadians today.
NFB StopMo Studio: A new Challenge for Creativity
The NFB’s new app for iPad, NFB StopMo Studio, is a great, inexpensive tool that makes it easy to produce frame-by-frame animated films with your students. Read about Paul Carrière's experiences using the app in his classroom with his grade 3 students.
“54 Hours”: writing the Newfoundland sealing disaster
Streaming for free in Canada only on NFB.ca: our new short animation 54 Hours, which depicts the harrowing 1914 sealing disaster. The writer of the film, Michael Crummey, discusses the project's inception here.
Teaching about gender diversity with My Prairie Home
Explore the NFB's educator's guide for teaching gender diversity through the film "My Prairie Home". The teaching guide was created in partnership with Pride Education Network and Out in Schools.
Canada’s Prime Ministers: History in the classroom
Explore a series of documentaries for the Canadian high school curriculum on political rivals Pierre Elliott Trudeau and René Lévesque. This collaborative effort of the National Film Board and Library and Archives Canada (LAC) brings a host of valuable resources to the classroom, including the documentary series, a full collection of digital images and documents from LAC, and fact sheets about each of Canada’s prime ministers.
Learning Through Listening: L.A. Theatre Works and Other Audio Resources in the Classroom
Learn more about the NFB's collection of L.A. Theatre Works audio plays, with teaching guides and classroom resources for educators included.
Hollow Land filmmakers Uri and Michelle Kranot: a partnership in art and in life
Animators Uri and Michelle Kranot share their perspectives on their unusual and powerful animated short Hollow Land.
Full of Sound and Fury: Learning and Teaching the MacBeth Audio Play
Shakespeare lives on in old and new media for students and teachers alike.
Hothouse 9 | The Hidden Side of Digital Animation in 4 Geeky Graphs
Kyler Kelly, participant in the NFB's 9th annual Hothouse apprenticeship, offers a look at the hidden side of digital animation in 4 geeky graphs.
Highrise | Tall Buildings, Short History
Gerry Flahive discusses the latest installment of the Emmy-award winning interactive documentary, Highrise. Directed by Katerina Cizek.