This is an excellent website/resource for helping both elementary and secondary students become interested in Social Justice issues. Please check it out at http://gamesforchange.org/.
"The Right to Freedom" is a teaching resource on issues of arbitrary arrest, exhile, disapearances, and the right to a fair trial. It was created by Liana Yip as part of a project done while interning with Amnesty International.
To download a free pdf of this excellent teaching resource, click on the image above and/or check out our teacher resources on this website at http://pagebc.ca/Teacher-Resources.php
Films For Change is a carefully curated selection of films on the environment originally developed as a classroom resource for educators. It contains a wide selection of films on subjects such as ecology, our forests, our oceans, wildlife and waste.
This week, we’re also featuring For a Song, a documentary about a Montreal-area choir that knows how to get the most out of life; Canada Vignettes: Wop May, a short film about one of Canada’s leading bush pilots; Shift Change, a close look at technology and how it affects our labour sector; As I Am, the latest documentary from the Work For All project that challenges stereotypes about Aboriginal people in the workplace; Never Lose Sight, a doc about the environmental challenges faced in isolated regions like Nunavut; and the animated short The Girl Who Hated Books in honour of World Book Day.
This trailer if from the Film Peacing It Together a documentary that follows a group of of Israeli, Palestinian, and Canadian teenagers as they participated in a unique peace and filmmaking camp. Organized by the Peace It Together Society, the three-week experience brought together bitter enemies from across the globe to the forests of British Columbia where they learned to live and co-create in harmony. During the Peace it Together summer program, award-winning filmmakers Erik Paulsson and Nova Ami followed several Israeli and Palestinian youth on their remarkable and inspiring journeys of hope, to produce this powerful and heart-warming documentary.
Through the lens of a camera they created seven short films that reflected their lives, fears, and hopes.
A double-disc set containing the seven short films, as well as Peacing It Together, the 29-minute documentary that follows the students on their remarkable and inspiring journeys is available from the Peacing It Together website, which is also linked now to the Teaching Resources page of this website. Also included with the purchase of the film set is an hour-and-a-half of additional footage, featuring workshops, discussions and additional interviews. An extensive teacher’s guide is also available for classroom use.
