About This Lesson
Activity: Take Action Toolkit
Description | 90 minutes
Activity description: Are you ready to take action? Ocean School’s Take Action toolkit can help you get started. The toolkit provides step-by-step guides for taking action, tips for taking action, and templates to help you get started! These additional resources and activities can help to make your students’ goals for change a reality. The kit is modelled on participatory action-planning models used around the world.
A step-by-step guide to plan an action project.
The toolkit includes guidelines for:
- Writing a letter to a politician
- Creating an infographic
- Creating a poster
- Organizing a beach clean-up
- Creating a social media post
- Creating a social media campaign
Want a Google Slides version? We offer a Google Slides version of the activity, a Microsoft Powerpoint version of the activity, and a PDF version of the activity on the Ocean School website.
See the activity
You can use the Take Action Toolkit by visiting the Ocean School website. If you like this activity you can see all of the available resources in the Ocean School Resource Catalogue. Everything in Ocean School is provided free to the public.
About Ocean School
This is a free educational resource from the Canadian Government about the ocean, through the Ocean Frontier Institute at Dalhousie University and the National Film Board of Canada. Ocean School provides free, media-rich, ocean-based resources in multiple subjects for students in grades 5–12. Created by educators, scientists and storytellers, these interactive learning materials help students understand our influence on the ocean and the ocean’s influence on us.
Available in French
Check out the Resources tab for the French activity sheets and media.
Or check out the French Ocean School page.
Please note: Ocean School activities are not stand-alone lessons (they do not cover all aspects of one topic or subject) but instead supplement learning through dynamic and engaging experiences.
