Teaching Materials

Our research group believes that youth outreach, including bringing our research into the classrooms, is both a moral obligation in giving back to the communities in which we work, as well as an essential component of our graduate student education. On this page we have compiled some of the interactive lessons that we’ve done in the northern classrooms over the years, as well as suggested other potential lessons. These lessons have been mapped onto the school curricula for NWT and/or Alberta in 2019, illustrating how they can complement existing curriculum requirements.

The lessons are intended to provide ideas and approaches that can be adapted to the local contexts. We encourage that the planning and delivery of these or other lessons be done in close collaboration with both the teachers and relevant community members/elders to ensure that it is context and culturally appropriate.

We also strongly recommend taking these learning opportunities out of the classroom and onto the land with elders and community members when possible.

We thank Kaleigh Eichel for her leadership role in adapting and assembling our existing, and developing new, teaching modules, and mapping them on existing curricula. We also gratefully acknowledge the support from NSERC PromoScience for our program ‘Engaging Inuit Youth in Science and Developing Community Expertise in Wildlife Health Monitoring’. Through this program we have been able to bring experiential science learning opportunities into the classrooms of Ulukhaktok, NWT and Kugluktuk, Nunavut since 2017.