Allies and Aliens | Introduction

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Allies and Aliens:
A Mission in Critical Thinking

This interactive module for Grades 7 and 8 is designed to increase students’ ability to recognize bias, prejudice and hate propaganda on the Internet and in other media.

In Allies and Aliens students become agents on an intergalactic mission for earth. As students interact with alien characters and visit Web sites on the "Galactic Web", they come across varying degrees of prejudice and discrimination. These interactions help students to understand how such messages can promote hate.

Allies and Aliens is accompanied by an extensive Teacher's Guide that contains background information about the module, the issues that it addresses, and supporting discussion points and student activities.

For Teachers

For Kids

Allies and Aliens was created and written by Jane Tallim and Valerie Steeves and was produced with the financial assistance of Canadian Heritage, Multiculturalism Program.

Initial storyboard development provided by Lianne Zitzelsberger, audio by Michael Fisher, and character design, programming and game production by the design team at Cinerio Inc.

Special thanks to drama students Kathleen Kuracina, Brett Willis, Erik Ostling-Royle, Felix Maxias and Malcolm Clarkson for voices and to our "official testers" – Mrs. Millwood's Grade 7 and 8 students at Trillium Elementary School.

		Allies and Aliens - Introduction