Chapter 2 Questions
+ Voices from the Story and Referenced Resources
Think about it
- Are there any unanswered questions or areas that require further investigation based on the story?
- Can you apply the information from the story to real-life situations or other contexts?
- Can you give an example of a misunderstanding or misinterpretation that could occur when important context is missing?
- Why does context help you better understand a situation?
- How can cultural knowledge help improve our understanding of societal norms, values and conflicts in our world today?
- Should we have more empathy for different contexts and perspectives?
- Can you give an example of a misunderstanding that's occurred due to lack of context?
- In what ways does cultural context influence how we interpret information, such as literature, art or news?
- How does knowing the context of a story (such as the time period, creator's background or cultural influences) enhance your understanding of the themes and messages?
- How does understanding the social and economic context of a community or region impact decision-making and problem-solving?
- Reflect on a time when hearing a different context made you rethink a situation or perspective.
- Reflect on a situation where you felt your viewpoint was not heard. How did it make you feel?
- How does listening to diverse perspectives contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of complex issues or current events?
Reflection Activity
- Option One: Create an artist statement on the lesson's story to describe what the message was.
- Option Two: Write a self reflection on the story. Did you enjoy it? Agree with it? Not agree? How did it make you feel and think?
- Option Three: Design a poster that celebrates the most interesting fact you learned in this story.
- Option Four: Find three websites or articles that relate to themes presented in this story. Explain why you selected them.
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Referenced Resources
- Grizzly Bears
- Elk
- Mountain pine tree that feeds grizzlies threatened due to climate change, beetles, fungus, officials say
- Bambi
- The Lion King
- Little Red Riding Hood
- The Edge
- The Revenant
- Kids 4 Wolves
- Wolves
- Rural vs urban divide: Why has the protection of wolves become so politicised in Europe?
- The most political animal
- Big bad wolf and other tales: How psychology shapes our perception of wildlife
- Why We're So Divided Over Saving Wolves
- Bias in science: natural and social
- Research funding and awards
- Federal Funding Sources
- Science and Technology for Canadians
- Is the alpha wolf idea a myth?
- There’s no such thing as ‘alpha’ males or females in wolf packs
- Let's Ditch the 'Big, Bad Wolf' Cliché
- Wolves Returned to California. So Did 'Crazy' Rumors.
- Why Do So Many Humans Hate Wolves?
- Wolf Wars: America’s Campaign to Eradicate the Wolf
- Science, Mythology, Hatred, and the Fate of the Gray Wolf
- Wolves a sort of serial killers
- It's a lie that wolves don't kill just for fun
- Who Speaks for Wolf: A Native American Learning Story
- A Wolf Called Romeo
- The Grand Lady of Yellowstone
- Highway Through Hell
- Ancient DNA Reveals Complex Story of Human Migration Between Siberia and North America
- Ancient migration: Bering Strait land bridge from Asia to North America was not a one-way road
- Why People of Color Often Feel Unsafe in the Outdoors
- Nature Gap: Why Outdoor Spaces Lack Diversity and Inclusion
- Examining Psychosocial and Economic Barriers to Green Space Access for Racialised Individuals and Families: A Narrative Literature Review of the Evidence to Date
- People of color 3x more likely to live in 'nature deprived' neighbourhoods
- Breaking down barriers to nature for young Black people
- Holocaust Is Fading From Memory, Survey Finds
- Survey finds 'shocking' lack of Holocaust knowledge among millennials and Gen Z
- Anti-Semitism surges as memories of Holocaust fade
- Canada, antisemitism and the Holocaust
- Half of Canadians can't name a Holocaust concentration camp: survey
- Biodiversity loss is the very real end of the world and no one is acting like it
- Why we couldn't care less about the natural world
- Tuning out: Did we grow tired of Ukraine war on TV and in newspapers?
- More people are avoiding the news, and trusting it less, report says
- 75 Years After Auschwitz Liberation, Worry That ‘Never Again’ Is Not Assured
- A quarter of Canadians are tuning out ‘too depressing’ political news: Poll
- The Thankful Outdoorsman
- Cod Moratorium of 1992
- BC salmon fishery on verge of commercial collapse
- Running on Empty: The BC Forestry Crash
- Sovereignty bills are symbols of discontent in today's Canada
- Quebec and the right to be different
- Ottawa's "just transition" needs to be challenged for encouraging fantasy around oil and gas
- Don’t ‘bothsides’ the just transition
- Arrests continue as the old-growth protest near Fairy Creek moves into another year
- Federal government steps into Greenbelt debate, launching study that could delay some development
Nature Labs Resources
- Nova Scotia pitches something 'better than a carbon tax' to Ottawa
- Shame on the federal government,' N.S. premier says of clean fuel rules
- Houston continues fight with Feds over carbon tax, runs ad campaign
- N.S. moves step closer to protecting 20% of its land and water by 2030
- Nova Scotia announces 17 new, expanded protected areas, and 10 more to come
- New report says federal carbon levy expected to cost most Nova Scotians more
- Nova Scotia gets 14 new nature reserves, wilderness areas, including area in Sackville
- Ottawa's carbon tax will hit Nova Scotia hard
- How B.C. brought in Canada's 1st carbon tax and avoided economic disaster
- B.C. gets a C grade in protecting land and oceans: report
- B.C. holding out on federal conservation targets and large-scale protected areas
- The environment is the top issue for Ontario voters, but are candidates taking it seriously enough?
- Environment is top election issue for Metro Vancouver residents: survey
- Canadians unified on forest protection although wildfire cause divisive: poll
- Survey supports outdoor group's call for additional B.C. Parks funding
- Don’t forget about rural Canadians when crafting environmental plans
- The rural-urban split matters more than you think
- Algonquin Logging Museum
- 10 Key Facts on Canada’s Natural Resources
- Acts administered by Environment and Climate Change Canada
- Visible Forest Stages
- Like it or not, building houses on the Greenbelt is necessary
- Logging Algonquin Park is just one example how Ontario is failing to protect nature
- After almost 3 decades, cod are still not back off N.L. Scientists worry it may never happen
- DFO shuts most B.C. fisheries in desperate effort to save salmon
- Ghost town no more: How tourism revived a once-decimated Newfoundland fishing community
- Grasslands National Park
- From cowboys to tourists: How the Grasslands kept Val Marie alive
- Sovereignty act shows Ottawa that Alberta will continue to fight for its rights
- 'We are not backing down': Premier Moe says legislation on parental rights coming this fall
- Danielle Smith wants vaccine status to be a human right. Expect a petri dish of problems
- Declaration Act Action Plan
- Quebec English speakers brace as major provisions of language law come into effect
- Geez, everyone likes parks, concludes $150,000 Parks Canada survey
- Bear watching more profitable than bear hunting, says study
- Banff Rules and Regulations
- Canada's National Parks Are Colonial Crime Scenes
- B.C. national park faces opposition as debate continues over land protection
- Ranchers frustrated with 'unchecked growth' of grizzly bear population
- Rise in Grizzly-Bear Deaths Has Some Environmentalists Worried
- What's Wrong with Putting a Price on Nature?
- Put a price on nature? We must stop this neoliberal road to ruin
- The Coming of Knowledge-Based Business
- The objectives of the Global Innovation Clusters
- Clusters and the New Economics of Competition
- Quebec Press Council rules debate moderator Shachi Kurl was biased in question on Bills 21 and 96
- Why 6 in 10 Canadians feel the country is divided
- Replacing the pan-Canadian consensus
- The environment is Canada's biggest wedge issue
- The anatomy of social media's mad-making machine
- Technology and Tyranny: Social Media and the End of the Liberal World Order
- This is what's wrong with Canada's Left
- This is what's wrong with Canada's Right
- Global Democracy Weakens in 2022
- Threats To Democracy Rise In A Third Of Countries
- There Are No Rules
- How to Understand the Global Spread of Political Polarization
- Revealed: the rise and rise of populist rhetoric
- The Rise of Global Populism
- Canada's angry, divisive politics are as old as Canada itself
- Do Canadians deserve their reputation for being nice?
- Why virtue signaling isn't the same as virtue
- Divergent bilingualism, linguistic anxieties, and Bill 96
- Trans Mountain pipeline: Some of the main arguments for and against it
- Province holding feedback sessions on Bighorn proposal
- Bighorn rally Thursday in Red Deer
- Under pressure: Canadians are losing trust in their governments, adding stress to our public institutions
- Canadians' trust in the news media hits a new low
- Trust in government is recovering but a new “generational trust gap” is emerging
- Millennials don't trust anyone. That's a big deal.
- Millenials and Gen Z have lost trust and loyalty with business
- Millennials aren't apathetic – they just don't trust politicians