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DRIVING QUESTION: What is our responsibility in pursuing peace? PROJECT DESCRIPTION: This unit is a critical cross-curricular evaluation of the sources and consequences of conflict. In addition to the driving question, there are a series of guiding questions to lay out the narrative of the unit: Is conflict...

DRIVING QUESTION: Poverty – how can I personally help? PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Students will research organizations helping local or global people living in poverty and educate their peers on what that organization is doing to help and how they, as middle school students, can personally help. They will choose...

DRIVING QUESTION: How are rights best met in community? PROJECT DESCRIPTION: This project begins by having students experience chaos in the classroom; there will be garbage all over, no rules and the playground will be off limits. After this they will have engage in the 4 square protocol...

DRIVING QUESTION: Can a city of 140,000 people ever have no depressed neighbourhoods? PROJECT DESCRIPTION: After a guided tour of their local city’s core, the students will debrief and discuss what they learned about their city. They will then select a topic to research and investigate to better...

DRIVING QUESTION: What would the leaders of the past say to the leaders of today? PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Term 1: Students’ will be challenged to choose and research an influential historical figure from an applicable time period (Grade 7: Ancient times-7th century, Grade 8: 7th century to 1750). Their...

DRIVING QUESTION: How can we develop empathy by looking at the past? PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Students will engage in a multitude of activities that have them explore, research and build an understanding of the effects of colonization on the First Peoples in Canada. Students will begin by investigating the...

DRIVING QUESTION: What makes the sea beautiful and important? PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Our school already has a one day project about the sea in which students visit the water pump station and the sea rescue team. On that day they are also pulling a net through the sea water...

DRIVING QUESTION: How can indigenous values inspire us to take care of our world? PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The focus of this project is to investigate the values that indigenous cultures (specifically those in Canada) have regarding nature and the care of nature and to see parallels in our own...

DRIVING QUESTION: Is the way I use my phone more a window or a mirror? PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Students will research and investigate the impact of their own phone usage in their personal lives (mirror) and how changing their paradigm will make it more of a tool (window). They...

Driving Question: How do you go through a mountain without offending anyone? Project Description: The class will be divided into groups and given a section of Canada that features the Canadian Pacific Railway. We will start with a visit to a railway museum. Each group member will choose...