A Balancing Act

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Interdisciplinary Connection

• Science - Ecosystems

Possible Contexts

• Personal, Social, Environmental; include nonfiction and media, but focus on fiction in which adolescents seek to affect decisions made about their natural environments (e.g., Speak to the Earth by William Bell).

• Bell, William, 1945 - Speak to the earth. [Novel set. Grade 4-8 reading level] : a novel /
  William Bell. -- Toronto : McClelland, 1996.
  202 p.
  • RN 1-83838.
    "Seal Books"--T.p.
    Grade level: Int - Jr.

Web Resources

• Ecosystems Online - In this multi-media lesson, students create a Web site about ecosystems.

Web Quests

• Ecosystems - Students have been chosen to research the different ecosystems of the world. As research scientists, they use the internet and other classroom resources to find information about the ecosystem they are assigned.

Related Novel Sets Available from the Curriculum Materials Centre

• Speak to the Earth by William Bell - Fifteen-year-old Bryan Troupe is at first indifferent to the bitter dispute between loggers and "tree-huggers" that splits the community of Nootka harbour on Vancouver Island. But when a similar rift divides his own family and affects his relationship with his girlfriend, Bryan becomes relentlessly drawn into the centre of an environmental conflict that shatters his entire way of life.

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