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In the vie aquatique module, students explore how language, media, and multimodal texts construct—and can challenge—narratives about marine life and ocean health. They examine the importance of oceans in sustainability. They focus on the many threats to them, including plastic pollution, overfishing and illegal fishing, coral bleaching, and the impact these have on society, culture, and the environment.
The big ideas that will provide the practical lenses for students' inquiry are:
Interdependence of human-ocean
Consequences of collective choices
Texts as tools for ocean protection
The essential questions that students will explore in this module are:
Why do the oceans matter to us, even if we do not live close to one?
What threats do oceans face and who is responsible?
How do francophone coastal communities handle changes in marine ecosystems?
What can we do, at our level, to protect oceans?
How can the texts we create/compose serve the cause of oceans?
Students should be able to develop the following enduring understandings:
Ecosystems are interdependent. Oceans regulate the climate, feed billions of people, and their biodiversity is essential to life on Earth. Understanding this interdependence is understanding human vulnerability
Human causes, shared responsibilities. The degradation of the oceans, which includes overfishing, plastic pollution, acidification, and coral destruction, results from political, economic, and cultural decisions. These problems have human causes, and therefore human solutions.
Francophone perspective. French-speaking populations in coastal and island regions are on the front lines of marine crises. Their knowledge, practices, and demands are essential resources for imagining solutions that are locally grounded and globally relevant.
Taking action through language. Speaking, writing, filming, and illustrating the state of oceans are forms of action.
Complexity and nuance are core to SDG. Issues related to SDG 14 cannot be reduced to simple oppositions (industry vs. nature, development vs. conservation). Sustainable solutions require taking social justice, the rights of local communities, and economic realities on the ground into account.
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