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Global Citizenship in Fisheries and Aquaculture

To the Teacher: RESOURCE OVERVIEW

Welcome to the Global Citizenship in Fisheries Resource!

English - French

This online educational resource is a unique opportunity for middle school teachers and their students to achieve prescribed learning outcomes (PLOs) through the exploration of international development issues. A series of lessons present three different countries that are “off the beaten track” – Mozambique, Bolivia and Malawi, and engage students in activities that address topics such as culture, history, geography, resource-based economies, community, environmental sustainability and gender roles, as well as how they relate back to local Canadian realities.

The activities foster an understanding of how communities in different societies engage with their environment to create sustainable livelihoods. An examination of history and current realities create opportunities to see how social justice, economics, human nature, biology, history and international affairs are interwoven to build the world we live in. Fisheries and aquaculture form a particularly interesting “lens” through which these issues are explored. Exercises carry students through active personal experiences of youth and families in the countries, development workers, and the students themselves.

The lessons – available in both English and French - are designed for a range of middle school subject areas, with particularly strong links to the British Columbia Prescribed Learning Outcomes for Social Studies of Grades 6, 7and 8.

Activities utilize a variety of teaching and learning styles including case studies, exploration of stereotypes, research and web-based resources, games, simulations, personal stories of community members and development workers, and the design of a new development project. The lessons were created with input from development workers and teachers, drawing on real-life experiences.

The 15 lessons are organized into four units which can be used individually or together. Lesson plans, black-line activity sheets, reference materials, extension activities, and links to relevant PLO’s are included in each module. Key concepts provide a framework to help plan teaching units, guide the integration of activities into several subjects, and help students monitor their own learning.

The resource development was supported by the Canadian International Development Association (CIDA)’s Global Classroom Initiative.

Conceptual Framework

The resource was developed based on the following ‘big ideas” or key concepts, which provide a framework for each unit. They can be used to plan a teaching unit, guide the integration of activities into several subjects, and help students monitor their own learning.

The main goal of the resource is to foster an overall understanding of how communities engage with their environment to create sustainable livelihoods, through having students:

  • Explore other countries and cultures and how communities make their livelihoods, in order to broaden students’ perceptions of their place in the world.
  • Encourage exploration and clarification of their own values and beliefs through developing an awareness of the diversity and scope of different cultures and livelihoods.
  • Examine fundamental issues, choices and challenges in relation to fisheries and aquaculture development and the environment faced by individuals, communities and nations.
  • Explore alternative views and different approaches to sustainable fisheries development in communities at home and in different countries.
  • Support an understanding that the resource management problems faced by communities and nations are unique, but also similar in many ways to our own.
  • Promote student awareness, understanding and action in supporting sustainable community-based projects both at home and overseas.

Organization of the Resource: A “Map” to the Guide

The resource contains four main units – an introductory unit describing the diversity of seafood and its sources, followed by one unit each on the three countries profiled.

This “map” provides an index of the activities and information contained within each unit.

INTRODUCTION to SUSTAINABLE FISHING

MOZAMBIQUE MALAWI BOLIVIA


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