Mini-Lesson for Big Mouth
Enjoy a mini-lesson on Space School! In this post, teachers will find several activities, questions, and topics designed to help them lead in-class discussions with students aged 8-10!
Education
Our educational offerings are in the spotlight here. These posts highlight the educational potential of our film collection, as well as specific ways in which our movies can be used in the classroom and beyond, including links to CAMPUS for subscribers.
Mini-Lesson for High Wire
Enjoy a mini-lesson on High Wire! In this post, teachers will find several activities, questions, and topics designed to help them lead in-class discussions with students aged 16-18!
New on NFB Education – December 2020
Did you know that NFB Education updates its films, playlists, and educational offers every week? Here's everything new on NFB Education this December!
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?
Mini-Lesson – Expressions of Creativity
Enjoy a mini-lesson on creativity! In this post, teachers will find several activities, questions, and topics designed to help them lead discussions with students aged 15-18!
Educational Resources for Parents for November 2020
School this year is unlike any other. Some of us have sent our kids back to school, some are engaged in distance learning, while others have decided to pull their children out of the formal education system altogether and take up homeschooling.
New on NFB Education – November 2020
Did you know that NFB Education updates its films, playlists, and educational offers every week? Here's everything new on NFB Education this November!
Mini-Lesson for Far From Bashar
In this mini-lesson, students are invited to critically reflect on the many faces of crisis and how it is a part of the human experience, in addition to thinking about how we can cope. Students are first asked to make connections with the key concept and the family they encounter in the film. Subsequently, their assumptions about refugees are challenged before finally engaging affectively with the core themes of this lesson. Through individual reflection, pair work and whole-class discussion, these activities will support students so that they can engage deeply with the guiding question: How do we cope with change and crisis?
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.
Mini-Lesson for Nightmare at School
Enjoy a mini-lesson on Nightmare at School! In this post, teachers will find several activities, questions, and topics designed to help them lead in-class discussions with students aged 6-7!
Coping with COVID and the Classroom: Tips from Dr. Tamara Soles
Back-to-school is a highly charged time of year, even under normal circumstances. Returning to the classroom with the knowledge that a second wave of the pandemic may be before us presents an extra challenge to teachers, students and parents alike.