Instructions:

• Teacher organizes a town hall meeting, choosing a topic for discussion (listed below).
• Each student takes on the role of a being affected by the topic ie: water, fish, osprey, local Member of Parliament, industry leader, community member, mother, student, farmer, etc.
• Each student must clearly articulate how the being they represent is impacted by the issue drawing on Indigenous land-based knowledge and Western science.
• Students must also develop a position statement regarding how they believe the issue can be resolved in a good way (again incorporating an understanding of both Indigenous land-based knowledge and Western Science). A similar activity can be found in the following lesson plan: Woodland Caribou Independent Study 1 | our incredible world 

Potential Topics for discussion:

• Nestle’s Ontario Water Problem
• Kinder Morgan Pipeline
• Grassy Narrows
• Lake Manitoba
• Victoria Harbour
• Six Nations water crisis (90 min from Toronto without access to clean water)
• Constance Lake First Nation (Blue green algae bloom)
• Maori (Watershed work and natural governance system)
• Tyendinaga (Lack of access to clean water)