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Bulletin LIAISON > LIAISON-Canada Electronic Newsletter #2 Ce document est disponible seulement en anglais.
UN Day reaches into Canadian Schools At Cherry Hill Public School in Mississauga, a group of students drew posters with UN themes, made flags representing most UN member states, and made a UN presentation to their classmates at a school assembly. Students at Windebank Elementary School in Mission, B.C. invited a peace-keeper to speak at their school, followed by student statements on the importance of the UN. And in Saint Antoine, Quebec, students at École secondaire Cap-Jeunesse organized a conference and video presentation on refugees and UN humanitarian assistance. These are only a few of the events through which students across Canada learned about the UN on October 24. As part of the Canadian Committee for UN/50's UN Day in the Schools project, teachers guides on the UN were distributed to all Canadian schools to help teachers and students learn about the UN, and schools were invited to plan their own activities to mark the UN's 50th birthday. The three teachers guides-- Fifty Years At the United Nations, for Grades 4-6, Where To Go From Here? The UN at 50, for Grades 7-9, and Looking Back, Looking Forward, for Grades 10-12 -- were approved by the Ministries of Education in each province and territory, and are still available for downloading on UNA-Canada's World Wide Web site. They discuss how the UN works, Canada's role at the UN, the UN's successes, and how it can be improved. All three guides focus on the themes of peacekeeping, human rights and the environment. Given the response to UN Day in the Schools - requests for the teaching guides came from as far away as southern Chile - plans are already underway for UN Day in the Schools 1996, in the hope that Canadian students will make the UN a more prominent part of their studies for many years to come.
Copies of the UN Day in the Schools guides are also available from UNA-Canada. Single copies are $5, while the full set of three guides is available at a cost of $10.
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