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Extending Learning

Adapting Learning

Module 2 Challenges: Courage and Leadership - An excerpt from She Should Talk: Conversations with Exceptional Young Women About Life, Dreams and Success

Extending Learning

Invite students to

  • prepare an oral report on the development of fighter jets in Canada .
  • research the development and ultimate demise of the Avro Arrow.
  • conduct an interview of someone who has served in Canada's Armed Forces. Students must set a purpose for the interview. For example, Erica Ehm asked Kim Reid what she had learned from her experiences as a military pilot. In their interviews, students could ask what the interviewee had gained, learned, experienced from military training and experiences.
  • investigate the requirements for earning one's private pilot's licence or a glider's licence. Students could present their findings in an essay, brochure, advertising campaign, etc.

Adapting Learning

Invite students to

  • design a poster the Canadian Armed Forces could use to recruit young women. Students could focus on a specific area of the military, or they could make the poster generic.
  • create a visual display of military equipment used by the Canadian Armed Forces.
  • prepare five interview questions you would like to ask your role model or mentor.

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" 'You had a peer group of one: yourself,' jokes Brasseur. 'A lot of the guys were not overly enthusiastic about having women in the program so they either wouldn't talk to you or they wouldn't acknowledge your presence. that was challenging to feel like you belonged to a place where everything was telling you that you didn't belong.'

But Brasseur forged ahead, breaking barrier after barrier: becoming one of the first three women to get their "wings", the first female Flight Instructor, the first female Flight Commander, the first female Aircraft Accident Investigator. And each time, she had to overcome the constant prejudice of the men around her." --Excerpt from
Discovery Channel
http://www.exn.ca