Tools for Change: An Educator's Resource Site

Format: Web Site

This resource addresses violence in the media and includes integrated lesson plans for elementary and secondary teachers that are designed to enhance the critical literacy skills of students.

Please be advised that the notice On Page 4 of the Grade 2/3 curriculum for Critical Media Literacy, should state, "Teachers need to check with their local school Board for licensing agreements and public performance rights before showing any video or movie."

http://www.crvawc.ca/CritMedLitCD/index.html

Format: Multiple PDFs

Resources designed to help educators foster students' healthy, equal relationships and raise awareness of violence against women.

Prepared for the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario/Fédération des enseignantes et des enseignants de l'élémentaire de l'Ontario, in partnership with Ontario Women's Directorate and Springtide Resources: ending violence against women.

Download:
Tips for Educators (English)
Tips for Educators (French): coming soon.
Four Workshops for Grades 7 & 8 Girls
Resources for Grades 3, 4 & 5

Format: website and PDF document

Replay: Finding Zoe is a game that has been developed to promote healthy, equal relationships and challenge gender-based violence amongst children and youth. Play the game at www.metrac.org.

This handbook explains the game’s messages and gives Educators ideas about how they can help the children they work with live violence free lives.

Format: website

Welcome to EqualityRules.ca, a website brought to you by the Government of Ontario. The goal of the website is to help educate your students about the importance of healthy, equal relationships. As adults, we know there are right and wrong ways to treat one another. But sometimes it's hard for children to know how to speak up for their friends when they are being treated unfairly. That's where this site can help. Through interactive scenarios and quizzes, your students will learn the importance of respecting themselves and others, as well as ways in which they can stand up for their friends in various situations. With your help, we can ensure that all kids understand and practice healthy, equal relationships.

Have you ever heard a boy tease a girl at your school? Or watched as someone made a friend of yours feel bad about themselves? No one deserves to be treated unfairly. But it’s not always easy to stand up for our friends. That’s where EqualityRules.ca comes in. It’s a website made with you in mind. You’ll learn lots of new things about respect, equality between boys and girls and building better friendships. So take a look around and have fun.

For more information, click here.

Format: PDF (click to download)

The White Ribbon Campaign has recently developed a new resource called Campaign in a Box, a set of fully interactive exercises designed to help teach and promote healthy, equal relationships among boys and girls. It meets Ontario curriculum expectations and is specifically formulated for use in with kids from grades 5-8. The box is now available to anyone in Ontario, in English and in French, for free (shipping costs only).

More information, including downloads and ordering information can be found here.