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Protecting Our Heritage

Write a letter to United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to promote the selection of one of Canada's proposed World Heritage sites.


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Specific Outcomes

This critical challenge may address these outcomes:

Specific Outcome 5.1.1.1 - Students will appreciate the variety and abundance of natural resources in Canada (ER, LPP)
Specific Outcome 5.1.1.3 - Students will appreciate the environmental significance of national parks and protected areas in Canada (ER, LPP)
Specific Outcome 5.1.1.6 - Students will demonstrate care and concern for the environment through their choices and actions (GC, LPP)
Specific Outcome 5.1.2.7 - How are Canada's national parks and protected areas important to the sustainability of Canada's natural environment? (ER, LPP)
Specific Outcome 5.1.3.3 - Whose responsibility should it be to ensure the preservation of Canada's national parks and protected areas? (C, ER, LPP)
Specific Outcome 5.S.1.3 - Students will re-evaluate personal opinions to broaden understanding of a topic or issue.
Specific Outcome 5.S.1.5 - Students will seek responses to inquiries from various authorities through electronic media.
Specific Outcome 5.S.4.2 - Students will collaborate with others to apply strategies for decision making and problem solving
Specific Outcome 5.S.4.4 - Students will use data gathered from a variety of electronic sources to address identified problems
Specific Outcome 5.S.4.7 - Students will generate alternative solutions to problems by using technology to facilitate the process.
Specific Outcome 5.S.5.1 - Students will consider multiple points of view while attempting to reach group consensus
C Citizenship
ER Economics and Resources
CC Culture and Community
I Identity
LPP The Land: Places and People
GC Global Connections
TCC Time, Continuity and Change
PADM Power, Authority, and Decision Making
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