Grab a cup of ☕️, find a cozy spot and browse through the Nature Labs Curated Library. What’s this tool?! We’ve hand selected and analyzed for bias 3000+ resources that will make you think and help you excel. We’re talking the latest news, the most interesting opinions, crazy-useful tools, breakthrough research and the best analysis. Use the Curated Library throughout this entire course!
Part One
Head over to the Curated Library and determine the following:
- What categories in the Curated Library are relevant to this course? Don’t get overwhelmed! Take your time and explore what resources exist in the library.
- Find three articles that apply to visual storytelling.
- Are the values or issues shared in the stories exclusive to a specific region? Do they they apply to your community? Why or why not?
- Find an article that isn’t relevant to your community. Why isn’t it? Could it be in the future?
Part Two
Compare your articles with those selected by a classmate.
- What are the similarities?
- What are the differences?
- Which resource do you both agree provides the most factual, well-researched and useful information? Why?
Part Three
The Scavenger hunt! Set a time limit as a class, then try to find and record as many as these resources as possible:
- An article from a Canadian newspaper
- A resource from the United Nations
- A scholarship or foundation web site
- A guide that helps you study more efficiently
- A podcast featuring a former prime minister
- A reference to vultures
- A list of all provincial premiers
- An Indigenous news outlet
- A reference to Jay-Z
- A resource that helps improve your writing and storytelling abilities
- A podcast featuring a youth leader
- An article that discusses the importance of art and artists
- Three stories that offer ideas for helping protect nature
- A resource that describes Indigenous ways of knowing and being
- A list of places to camp in Mount Robson Provincial Park
- An article that discusses fake news
- An article about the Canadian economy
- A reference to Hamilton, Ontario
- A list of biosphere reserves in Canada
- An article about pika
- Information on Mount Robson Provincial Park
- A story about an innovation that could help both people and nature
- Something that references a vampire squid
- A guide to mentorship
- A headline that plays on “Why did the chicken cross the road?”
- An article about birds
- Something that’s funny!
- Something that offers timeless advice
- A link to a book
- Find a reliable resource outside of the Nature Labs Curated Library that discusses nature in your community. Share it with your peers or, better yet, send it to us so we can add it to the Curated Library for more students to see!