For my final project, I worked with fellow student Kayli McKay to develop an online educational resource for grade 4-7 classrooms.
Our website includes a teacher page with resources (audio, visual, audio-visual, and print), curriculum connections for both Saskatchewan and British Columbia, and suggestions for scaffolding and student projects. There is also a student page that contains a brief written introduction to the importance of muskeg ecosystems and a choose your own adventure style game that was designed to introduce students to the plants and animals of North American peatlands and emphasize their human uses and/or role in the ecosystem.
My hope is that through the use of various modern text technologies we can inspire students to learn about Canada’s natural landscapes, and help them to appreciate the reciprocal nature of our relationship with the environment.
The website was made using Weebly and the game was built in Google Forms.
You can access the website here: https://muskeggame.weebly.com/