Complexities and Compromises

Last updated on
Tuesday, October 31st, 2023
Experience type: 
Virtual Field Trip
Program Description

Many of the big decisions we face as individuals, communities, or nations don’t have a correct answer. Making these decisions can be extremely challenging, as we grapple with information and misinformation, our own conscience, and strong opposing opinions. In the face of climate change, many of these decisions become even more challenging. In this program, students are tasked with deciding whether or not to approve a project that would have impacts on global scale. We go step by step through the process, conducting research, mapping out consequences, and ultimately: deciding.

Curricular Connections: 

During this program, students will learn about the perspectives of local Indigenous peoples in the context of this project proposal. This program also has strong ties to social studies, as students learn about the connections between the physical environment and political change. Students will explore evidence-based decision making through science, the impact of technologies, how humans impact climate change, and how climate change impacts the environment. Most importantly, students will be better prepared to be civically engaged in our increasingly complex world.

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Big Ideas
  • Changing ideas about the world created tension between people wanting to adopt new ideas and those wanting to preserve established traditions.
  • Contacts and conflicts between peoples stimulated significant cultural, social, political change.
  • Exploration, expansion, and colonization had varying consequences for different groups.
  • Human and environmental factors shape changes in population and living standards.
  • Collective identity is constructed and can change over time.
  • Disparities in power alter the balance of relationships between individuals and between societies.
  • Emerging ideas and ideologies profoundly influence societies and events.
  • The physical environment influences the nature of political, social, and economic change.
  • Trip Details
    City: 
    For Grades: 
    8, 9, 10, 11, 12
    Days Offered: 
    Duration: 
    70 minutes unless otherwise stated.
    Maximum Students: 
    Offered In French: 
    No
    Also Offered For: 
    Homeschool
    Packages Provided: 
    Post-Visit Information Package
    Fee Details
    Cost Per Student: 
    $9.00
    Fee Notes: 

    This program can be run either as an online program, or an outreach program.

    The online program costs $65 + GST, with a maximum of 30 students.

    The outreach program costs $9.00 per student (minimum charge $109.00+GST) plus $0.90 per kilometre between FRDC and your school (both ways); group size between 12 to 30.

    Additional Notes

    This program has both a 70-minute and a 90-minute version.