The AWAL Web Site

Located at www.awal.ca, the AWAL Web site is the project’s primary communication tool to distribute information about the project in both official languages. Access to the Web site does not require a password. The Web site contains the following features:

• About AWAL
• AWAL Forms and Resources
• Related Sites
• The AWAL Database

The AWAL Database

The AWAL database is the core of the AWAL Web site and contains more than 1500 teaching and learning activities developed between 1997 and 2005. While the AWAL Web site and database remain accessible as a valuable resource, please note that at the time of this writing (January 2006), it is not possible to add new activities to the database.

The majority of activities were developed during AWAL Workshops (a few were developed as part of a separate HRDC project). All activities are designed to provide practice in particular essential skills.

You may search the database by using any of the following criteria:

• Company Name
  • Can be further filtered by province/territory and/or date of entry
• National Occupational Classification (NOC)
  • Can be further filtered by NOC major group, grade level, province/territory, and/or date of entry
• Essential Skill
  • Can search for a particular essential skill either observed in an occupation or highlighted in a teaching and learning activity
  • Can be further filtered by skill application/purpose, grade level, province/territory, and/or date of entry
• Subject Area and Level
  • Can be searched by any combination of ten subject areas (applied skills, languages, arts, math, computers, language arts, science, career education, socials, other)
  • Can be searched by any combination of grade clusters (K-3 through to adult education and adult literacy)
  • Can be further filtered by province/territory and/or date of entry
• Collector Name
  • Search by the name of the activity developer
• Keyword
  • Search by keyword or keywords