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This includes their cultural, socio-economic and educational backgrounds. All three aspects of the learner plays a role in the type of learning activities that a teacher may choose to use. For example, for a class with many Inuit students,conducting an engineering design challenge focused on designing an airplane that flies the furthest might be a bit problematic in that there are likely some who have never flown in a plane before and so have no understanding of the concept…

Indigenous Studies 100 is a course that serves important knowledge to any university student in Canada. This is a course that deals with contemporary issues and our history as a country. It is of equal importance to other classes that are mandatory throughout our lives in university. This essay will discuss the importance of a mandatory Indigenous Studies 100 course. In this paper I will attempt to explain why the issues and history that have happened, or are currently happening in our country…

estimates of glaucoma prevalence in other Western countries (Anraku et al. 2011). Similarly, the highest prevalence of open-angle glaucoma was observed among the African community while the highest prevalence of angle-closure glaucoma occurred in the Inuit community (Cook and Foster 2012). However, despite the high risk in a black community in Toronto, glaucoma…

divide continues to exist. The government in the predominantly English-speaking regions of Canada created a single concept of what being Canadian meant, at the expense of other distinct cultures within Canada, including French-Canadians as well as Inuit, Metis, and First Nations groups. As British colonialism expanded across Canada, existing cultures became increasingly dominated by British values and cultural norms as the British attempted…

The American Indians and Aboriginal people, such as Inuit and First Nations, in Canada and Alaska use the medicine wheel to maintain balance and harmony in life (Kazanowski, 2013; NLM, 2011). The Medicine Wheel contains the Four Directions along with Father Sky, Mother Earth, and Spirit Tree that symbolize…

1) Why, according to Jones, is Mauna Loa (in Hawaii) a suitable place to measure changes in global atmospheric CO2 levels? Mauna Loa was selected as the best place to measure changes in global CO2 levels because of it’s the best location to see large atmospheric averages. The volcano rises to 3400 meters in the middle of the ocean and, as a result, the air mass being sampled is already well mixed due to the inputs and outputs of CO2 that is far below and away. Additionally, the site is located…

BUAD 500 Equivalency Exam Study Sheet International Business Multiple Choice, True/False, Short Answer Essay, Fill in the Blank, Matching Books Either: Wild, Wild, Han, International Business (Prentice-Hall) or Charles Hill, International Business: Competing in the Global Marketplace (McGraw-Hill). Topics The worldwide transition to globalization Globalization if the process of integration and interconnectedness among economies. The process is characterized by…

All 7.28 billion (and counting) people of the world, from the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic and the Quechua in South America, to the Slavs of Eastern Europe and the Indochinese in Southeast Asia, identify themselves to at least one culture of some sort. The world teems with hundreds, if not thousands, of rich cultures, some of which date back to the Bronze Age and remain slightly changed, if at all, from the Age of Imperialism that saw the rise of empires covering a large chunk of the world under…

On the world stage, Canada has always been known to demonstrate its rich multiculturalism. Canada often serves as an example to the rest of the world what safety, equality, and citizen happiness look like while maintaining the multiculturalism that many governments fear to implicate into their own countries. One prominent and extremely proud source of culture in Canada is the province of Quebec. Quebec is a province that is more than often full of wandering tourists and is well known for its…

WNCP document (2010), I realized how essential it was to continually monitor student learning using various techniques. It was then that I also received my own personal exposure to formative assessment while working as a curriculum developer with Inuit Elders. I was bestowed with the honour of leading a…