Investigating Women's Lives in Upper Canada and Lower Canada

http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/explore/online/diaries/index.aspx

Canadian Settlement Groups and Their Challenges

www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/settlement/kids

Lego Man in Space

Is this really a true story?  Do some investigating!!

Mathew and Asad's website:
http://www.legomaninspace.com/

Teaching Kids News report:
http://teachingkidsnews.com/2012/01/29/toronto-teens-send-legonaut-into-near-space/

CBC news report:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/lego-man-sent-to-space-by-toronto-teens-1.1195556

Toronto Star news report:  http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2012/01/25/toronto_teens_send_lego_man_on_a_balloon_odyssey_24_kilometres_high.html

People Living and Working in Ontario

Read through the following pages about the different communities in Ontario.  Decide which one you'd like to focus on for your research project.

Forestry Communities

Farming Communities

Mining Communities






Ontario Cities:
Sault Ste. Marie
Parry Sound
Belleville
Peterborough
Hamilton
Sudbury
London

Environmental Issues Research Websites - Ms. Rogers's and Mr. White's classes

Mining

http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/science/video/3571

http://www.mining.ca/site/images/MapofCanada.pdf

Oil and Natural Gas Pipelines

http://www.cepa.com/map/

http://actionplan.gc.ca/en/backgrounder/r2d-dr2/pipeline-safety-canada 
(just read the first paragraph)

http://www.gatewayfacts.ca

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/faqs-keystone-xl-oil-pipeline-project-1.985186

http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2013/05/17/geography-in-the-news-keystone-pipeline-and-canadian-tar-sands/

Wind Turbines

http://www.ecokids.ca/pub/eco_info/topics/renewable_energy/

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/wind-farm-opponents-cheer-federal-study-of-health-effects-1.1161838

Forestry

http://www.ecokids.ca/pub/eco_info/topics/forests/threats.cfm

http://www.livescience.com/27692-deforestation.html

Tourism

http://www.unep.org/resourceefficiency/Business/SectoralActivities/Tourism/FactsandFiguresaboutTourism/ImpactsofTourism/EnvironmentalImpacts/tabid/78775/Default.aspx

http://kewbeachlibrary.blogspot.ca/p/the-positiveand-negative-effects-of.html

http://www.gdrc.org/uem/eco-tour/envi/

Rights of Children - Mr. Jacobs's class

http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/humanrights/resources/plainchild.asp

Read about the rights:

#1     #2     #3     #4     #5     #6     #7     #8     #9     #10

Oil and Plastics Research websites - James's class

Use the following websites for your research:

http://www.kids.esdb.bg/oil.html

http://www.eia.gov/KIDS/energy.cfm?page=oil_home-basics-k.cfm

http://www.funkidslive.com/events/crude-oil-energy-source-fact-file/

http://dwb4.unl.edu/Chem/CHEM869E/CHEM869ELinks/www.plasticsresource.com/plastics_101/uses/uses.html

And watch this!
http://ww3.tvo.org/video/195595/plastic-ocean