Guiding Principles:

• Northern emphasis
• Integrates existing curriculum resources
• Relevant to curriculum
• High use of Internet technology
• Incorporates local values
• Will be thoroughly evaluated
• Strong experiential component
• Fosters communications and collaboration across the North
• Is a model for other schools and regions
• Will have a life after December 31, 2001

Tangible Outcomes (and how to get there):

We're expecting participants to collaborate on the following via e-mail (Yahoo! Groups), web page, and other media where feasible and appropriate.

A learning resource for other northern teachers (our legacy)

• Review existing materials for relevance, draw on the best
• Develop lesson plans for local situation and distribute
• Compile and prepare for publication on the web (pdf) and in print

Student research projects

• One project which is carried out in all communities so that students can compare and communicate on one issue
• One or more local projects which reflect the particular interest of the community and school

A web site with the following content:

• Documents the progress and lessons learned during this project (as a model for others)
• The learning resource we develop, lesson plans, etc.
• Outlines, progress and results of student research projects
• Student artwork, essays, etc.
• Links to other sites with applicability to climate change and the North (we collect along the way)
• Other?

Community outreach projects:

• Each school will develop an outreach project which will help inform and motivate the community of climate change issues. Students will make sense of what they have learned by presenting back to the wider community.

To see a graphical view of these guiding principles and outcomes, click here.

Timelines

We need to spend all our funding by the end of December 2001. By then we must have all the above outcomes completed. Web development is an on-going process.

End of March: preliminary workshops done, reviewing of materials begun

End of April: materials reviewed, gaps and modifications identified, collaborative and local research projects identified

End of May, early June: research and unit plans outlined

Back to school: research and unit plans implemented

November: ongoing research, planning for outreach projects, compilation of learning resource guide

November to end of December: outreach projects carried out, learning resource finalized, reports and evaluation done.

To see a graphical view of these timelines, click here.

Project proposal to CCAF

To read the full proposal that was submitted to, and approved by, the Climate Change Action Fund, click here.

Project budget

Original approved budget: click here
Revised budget: click here

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