Relationships in Nature

Students interacting with a collection item at ROM

Category

Onsite Lessons with ROM Educators

Duration

60 minute gallery

Audience

Educators, Schools

Age

9-18

Grades

4-12

Subjects

Canada, History, Indigenous, Science, Science & Technology, Social Studies

About this lesson

Explore some important and fascinating relationships between organisms including humans and how human activity and history affect the natural world.

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We are but a piece of the puzzle. Humans ar one part of the vast, interconnected, and interdependent world of nature. Explore some important and fascinating relationships through specimens, objects, and stories with a Museum Educator in this lesson. Themes may include the interdependence of all living things; the structures and adaptations in response to various environments; and the various relationships that humans have developed with the natural world around us, both past and present. 

 

Delivery LanguageThis lesson is offered in English and French.
Activities
  • Gallery Visit
  • Object handling
  • Small and large group discussion 
Galleries/LocationLife in Crisis
FormatGallery Lesson 
Pricing$18.50/person 
Minimum Group 15
Maximum Group35

Learning Goals

Explore how human relationships with the environment—past and present—have shaped the development of communities. 

Examine the ways in which communities impact their local and global environments through their actions and choices. 

Investigate how environmental challenges are being addressed at national and international levels, and consider our role in creating a more sustainable future. 

Target Classes

Curriculum Links Depending on the examples the ROM Educator decides to focus on, links may include:
 

Grades 4, 5, 6
  • Science, Life Systems            
  • Social Studies, Heritage and Identity
Grade 7
  • Science, Life Systems
  • History, New France and British North America, 1713-1800
  • History, Canada, 1800–1850: Conflict and Challenges
  • Geography, Physical Patterns in a Changing World
Grade 8
  • Science, Earth and Space Systems
  • History, Creating Canada, 1850–1890
  • History, Canada, 1890–1914: A Changing Society
  • Geography, Global Settlement: Patterns and Sustainability
Grade 9
  • Science, Grade 9 Open
  • Exploring Canadian Geography, Grade 9 Open
Grade 10
  • Science, Grade10 Academic/Applied
  • Environmental Science, Grade 10 University Preparation/College
  • Preparation/Workplace Preparation

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