Teacher Resources for 10 to 14 yr old students: What's in it for Me?
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"LS Stone perfectly captures the voice and perspective of a teenager. Despite his initial self-interest, Stone does a good job of making Nick a character at once real and sympathetic. He voices the concerns and worries that most of us have when it comes to volunteering abroad, but he also possesses a general care for people and for animals, along with just enough self-awareness to make him a character readers can root for. Seeing Nick grow and change throughout the novel will inspire readers to empathize with his personal journey, and might even convince teens to volunteer at an elephant refuge or even build a school in Kenya. All readers, teenaged or otherwise, will leave What’s in it for Me? feeling both challenged and empowered to make a difference in the world.~ The British Columbia Review see the full review https://thebcreview.ca/2022/09/12/1567/
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Global Activism and Social Activism are an important part of the middle school and secondary school curriculum.
See this article: Educators are inspiring a new generation of social justice warriors in Macleans magazine.
https://www.macleans.ca/education/private-school/sponsored-inspiring-youth-activism/
Listed below are great resources which can be used in the classroom to encourage students to become a Changemaker!
See this article: Educators are inspiring a new generation of social justice warriors in Macleans magazine.
https://www.macleans.ca/education/private-school/sponsored-inspiring-youth-activism/
Listed below are great resources which can be used in the classroom to encourage students to become a Changemaker!
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Program for grades K to 7:
Design for Change- "I CAN" https://dfcworld.org featured stories https://dfcworld.org/SITE/Featuredstories A school in BC which used the program https://changemakers-sd71.weebly.com/ 
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video about Students Rebuild program
https://www.facebook.com/watch/v=10159570991285413 lesson plans online: 
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How to become a mahout |
Being a female mahout, in India, was not an easy feat, considering it is a male-dominated territory.
Parbati Barua, broke stereotypes and became the first female mahout in India in 2015. Click on her photo to read more about her. |
Parbati Barua,
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Amazing Elephant facts!
Elephants are very smart and will make tools everyday. For example, Elephants will move an object to stand on to reach fruit high up on a tree. Elephants have also been known to use sticks to scratch themselves in areas they couldn’t otherwise reach, and make fly swatters out of branches or grass. Others have been observed digging a hole to reach drinking water, and then plugging the hole with a ball formed from chewed bark to prevent the water from evaporating, thus saving it for later use. Here is a great link to some more amazing facts: https://www.rd.com/list/amazing-things-elephants-can-do/ |
The incredible, bendable, twistable, expandable elephant trunk
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