Canada: Your Story is My Story
Grade: 9 Subject: Humanities, Social Studies Teacher: Jennifer Woodard This grade 9 project centered around grade 9 students telling the stories of new immigrants to Canada. The project was done in partnership with the Calgary Catholic Immigration Society. The hope of this project was to engage students in the issue of Canadian immigration and citizenship in an authentic way. It was an attempt to use technology to have students make meaningful connections with what happens outside of school. Rather than just reading about the immigration process, students were able to experience immigration first hand. The power of the project lay … Continue reading Canada: Your Story is My Story