Relationships in Nature - Virtual

A screen in a classroom displays an orange-and-black butterfly.

Category

Virtual Lessons with ROM Educators

Duration

45 minutes

Audience

Educators, French Presentation, Schools

Age

9-14

Grades

4-8

Subjects

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

About this lesson

Learn about 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 are one part of a vast, interconnected, and interdependent world of nature. 

In this lesson, learn about important and fascinating relationships through specimens, objects, and stories with a Museum Educator or Indigenous Museum Educator. 

Themes may topics such as include the interdependence of all living things; the structures and adaptations in response to various environments; or 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.
FormatVirtual Lesson 
Duration
  • Grade 4 to 6 - 45 minutes
  • Grade 7 to 8 - 45 minutes 
PricingFree
Minimum Group 10
Maximum Group600

Available Dates

Learning Goals

Analyze how relationships with the environment affected the development of communities in the past.

Examine how communities have impacted the surrounding local, national, and international environments.

Explore how environmental issues are being tackled nationally and internationally.

Curriculum Connections

Curriculum Links Depending on the examples the ROM Educator selects, 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
  • 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
  • Canada, 1890–1914: A Changing Society
  • Geography - Global Settlement: Patterns and Sustainability       
Grade 9
  • SNC1W
  • CGC1D
  • CGC1P
Grade 10
  • SNC2D
  • SNC2P
Grade 11
  • SVN3M
  • SVN3E 

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