Practical & Applied Arts

This webinar describes ways for teachers and professional service providers to work collaboratively within play-based early learning environments. Promising practices for responding to children's EYE results through inter-professional collaboration are shared by Reanne Usselman, Early Years Coord...

This webinar includes an introduction to the Early Years document, "Essential Learning Experiences with Three, Four and Five-Year-Olds" (R102575) and focuses on links between the EYE screen and the "Essential Learning Experiences (ELE)". Content includes ways of responding to EYE results with the...

This final webinar in the "EYE Lunch and Learn Webinar Series" responds to the top ten questions voiced by Saskatchewan educators relating to the EYE implementation. Successful processes and practices as well as implementation challenges and related sector needs are also discussed.

Eighty Canadians, 80 containers, and one of our most unusual tests ever! The Marketplace team looks at Canadians' diets and finds startling salt facts — the shocking amounts of sodium hidden in your food and how Ottawa lets the food industry get away with it.

This powerful animated film tells the story of Chanie Wenjack, a 12-year-old Ojibwa boy who died of exposure in 1966 while running away from Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School near Kenora, Ontario. The story is told through music by Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie and illustrations ...

A group of Indigenous teenagers from Pimicikamak Cree Nation use square dancing to help heal from the trauma of a suicide epidemic in their remote Manitoba community.

20-minute, bilingual film features the personal stories and experiences of diverse immigrants to Canada from all over the world. The impressions and reflections shared in the film touch on the themes of Journey, Arrival and Belonging. in Canada is at times moving, funny and thought-provoking and...

In this episode from the Wapos Bay series, film star Adam Beach mentors T-Bear and Talon as they make videos celebrating Treaty Days in Wapos Bay. Raven feels left out with everyone so busy preparing for the celebrations. Wapos Bay is a stop-motion animation series that follows the adventures of...

This webinar examines effective assessment practices for the early years and offers general guidelines for responding appropriately to the EYE screen. Content also includes facilitating responsive instruction as related to EYE results.

This documentary takes you on a reflective journey into the extended family of Nova Scotia’s Mi'kmaq community. Revisiting her own roots, Mi'kmaq filmmaker and mother Catherine Anne Martin explores how the community is recovering its First Nations values, particularly through the teachings of eld...

Aleena and Dezlin are from Six Nations Reserve. Their modern and traditional dancing demonstrates how art and dance can bridge cultures.

From December to March, Felix, Julien, Eric and Charles, along with the other members of the snow removal squad, brave the cold of Quebec to live these few months in suspension. They are called L’Escouade des neiges (The Snow Squad). Every winter, for the past ten years, the squad can be seen per...

This animated short tells the story of Anansi, a little spider who is tired of being snubbed by other the jungle animals, especially Mr. Tiger. As Anansi plots and schemes to change things, he realizes he can't gain respect by putting others down. Part of the Talespinners collection, which uses ...

In episode 32 from the Wapos Bay series, Talon, T-Bear, Devon and Mushom try to solve a mystery after watching a movie marathon of old detective films. Where is Raven’s missing art piece? They question Chief Big Sky and other residents of Wapos Bay in the process. Could there be a connection betw...

An NFB crew filmed a group of three families, Cree hunters from Mistassini. Since times predating agriculture, this First Nations people have gone to the bush of the James Bay and Ungava Bay area to hunt. We see the building of the winter camp, the hunting and the rhythms of Cree family life.