The Canadian Reader - Issue 6

Eclipse Day!

Internet Connections (p.11)

1. Learn more about this news story:

2. Check out the Canadian Space Agency’s (CSA) visual texts on the solar eclipse:

3. Find out how to view the eclipse safely from NASA:

4. Experience a simulation of the eclipse from any city along the path of totality:

5. For teachers:
View a CSA animation of the eclipse:

Watch a NASA video of a solar eclipse:

Helping through Haircuts

Internet Connections (p. 20)

1. Find out more about this news story:

2. See the Empowering Cuts website:

3. For teachers:
social action projects: Making a Difference:

Summer Makes a Splash

Internet Connections (p. 27)

1. Learn more about this news story:

2. Read Summer McIntosh’s biographies:

3. See how Summer trains:

4. Follow Summer on Instagram:

5. For teachers:
Value Lines:

Of the reams of educational resources out there, What in the World? is easily one of my favourites.

G. Shuley, Nanaimo, B.C.