CBC/RADIO-CANADA’S EDUCATIONAL PLATFORM

Curio.ca is a subscription based service providing Canadian educators with access to thousands of hours of high-quality digital content

covering all subject matter and grade levels in English and French from CBC and Radio-Canada.

Working with educators across the country, The Curio team continues to develop Teacher Guides to make it even easier for teachers to

include Curio.ca content into their lesson plans

Ad-free

Teacher access 24/7 from school, home or on the go!

Motivates and supports independent learners

Enhances digital literacy and supports inquiry-based

learning

Quickstarter Guides and tutorials get you classroom-ready

quickly

With a carefully curated collection of CBC / Radio-Canada documentaries,

news features, dramas and kids’ programming, Curio.ca brings you the

highest calibre content to explore the world through a Canadian lens.

Curio.ca provides curriculum- relevant resources for science, geography,

history, Indigenous studies, social justice, health, business and more. And

we’re constantly adding new content to keep pace with today’s issues.

TOP CATEGORIES AND THEMES

WILD CANADA

THE WILD

CANADIAN YEAR

WANDERING

WENDA

ANNE

PTSD: BEYOND

TRAUMA

WE ARE CANADA

CANADA: A

PEOPLE’S

HISTORY(with

new episodes)

THE SKIN WE’RE

IN

THE SECRET

PATH

TRUE NORTH

CALLING

Curio.ca offers a premium subscription

option for specialty channels including

the award-winning National Geographic

Channel and the popular CBC News

production, News in Review- Canada’s

premier current-event series for the

classroom.

Anchored by Michael Serapio, News in Review gives

students the opportunity to delve into important events

as they unfold. Each story includes a teacher

resourceguide that supports student inquiry

This is the ideal French-language resource to explore

the stories behind the headlines. Like our News in

Review channel, each story is accompanied by a

teacher guide.

Offering over 260 hours of documentaries on a wide

array of topics like brain science, resource extraction,

earthquakes, engineering, technology and more!

The seasonality of the weather on our planet defines and drives the lives of

every creature on earth. Humans, plants and wildlife must navigate the

changing conditions they face as a result of our planet’s annual trip around the

sun. But in some places the effects of the seasons are especially pronounced

- one of those places is Canada.

Polar bears hunting in the open summer waters of Hudson Bay, a bizarre

animal that lives underground and has 28 tentacles around its mouth instead

of eyes, frogs that actually freeze solid in the winter - miraculously coming

back to life year after year each spring, and lynx that walk on snow chasing

their elusive quarry through the northern forests – THE WILD CANADIAN

YEAR will showcase the most amazing and rare natural wonders of Canada.

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

AGES

9-12

Bee Nation is a heart-warming and inspiring film that follows First Nations

families as they prepare their children for the first-ever First Nations Provincial

Spelling Bee in Canada. We meet students, parents and educators in the

weeks leading up to the spelling bee. And as we spend time with the children

who will compete, we find ourselves investing in them, cheering for them and

wanting them to succeed.

The future of our children is common ground we can all agree is paramount to

a better world. In Bee Nation, family is at the core of that future.

INDIGENOUS STUDIES

AGES

9-12

Max, Lily and Goo love nothing better than to use their math skills to overcome

obstacles. Based on the curriculum of renowned Canadian mathematician Dr.

John Mighton, the series promotes the love of numeracy, the idea that math is

everywhere, and that problem solving is fun!

NOW AVAILABLE: Season 1 Teacher Resource Guide! Look for it on the

GUIDE tab of every episode page.

MATHEMATICS

AGES

5-8

2017 means two new episodes have been added to CBC/Radio-Canada’s

landmark documentary series, offering educators and students an

unprecedented visual resource to support Canadian history, geography, civics,

politics and issues courses. The rich video resource is supported by two

Teacher Resource Packages.

CANADIAN HISTORY

AGES

9-12

CURRICULUM CORRELATION

The CURRICULUM CORRELATION feature identifies titles

suitable for specific courses in all K-12 provincial curricula

ANNOTATIONS & PLAYLISTS

With the ANNOTATIONS feature, teachers can mark

specific segments, plus add notes and questions for their

students. PLAYLISTS lets teachers organize, integrate and

share specific content

CATALOGUING

All Curio content is systematically catalogued and indexed

with LIBRARY OF CONGRESS AND RÉPERTOIRE DE

VEDETTES-MATIÈRE (Université Laval) subject headings

Our MARC RECORDS cover the entire Curio.ca database

and we offer a variety of simple options for downloading

MARC records, based on user preferences

ADVANCED SEARCH FEATURE

ADVANCED SEARCH enables users to search by title,

show, category or subject and also allows for boolean

searches

STATISTICS AND REPORTING

See what and how often your users are watching Curio.ca

with the STATISTICS AND REPORTING module

Curio.ca helps you give students the fuel to ask great

questions about ideas, big and small.

With curriculum-relevant resources for science, geography,

history, Indigenous studies, social justice, health, business

and more, our streaming platform offers students and

educators thousands of hours of content to inspire

exploration, ask questions and satisfy curiosity.

More than a streaming video platform, Curio.ca is a curated

learning environment for educators and students —

accessible in the classroom, at the library or at home.

Our teachers trust Curio.ca content for

its representation of multiple viewpoints.

The real-world scenarios CBC/Radio-Canada programming

presents allow students application of abstract concepts and

theory in practice.

– Unit Coordinator , Library Teaching Resources, Toronto District School Board

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STATISTICS

Join over 80 school boards and 230 post-secondary

institutions already subscribed in 11 provinces/territories

3 million students across Canada have access

Over 7000 audiovisual resources + growing

Over 900 teaching guides to accompany key video series

CBC/RADIO-CANADA’S EDUCATIONAL PLATFORM

VERONICA BARTON veronica.barton@cbc.ca