Message in a Bottle

Submitted By

Debbie Michon-Weir, Chair, Community Programs, Yellowknife Campus, Aurora College

Best Practices Supported

• Instruction
• Learning Materials

Curriculum Links

• ALBE English
• ALBE Social Studies

How It Works

Adding enhancement and innovative concepts to adult basic education is a practice that Debbie Michon-Weir has followed in her career as an educator of adults. Debbie worked as the instructor for the Community Skills for Work program in Rankin Inlet in 1996, a program that included basic English, math and work skills. While doing this program, she decided to do a “Message in a Bottle” activity as part of the English component, with hopes that someone in some exotic place might one day find one of their bottles and contact them!