This article explains 6 ways to use breathing for stress relief and mental wellness.
- Subject:
- Education
- Health & Fitness
- Health Education
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Author:
- Jordan Shakeshaft
- Date Added:
- 01/15/2020
This article explains 6 ways to use breathing for stress relief and mental wellness.
"Whether your little one is at home or at school, there are lots of ways to support her social and emotional learning. Here are some things you can do to cultivate those skills within her."
There are ways we can approach teaching that will help prepare our students for an AI future - and at the same time, AI-proof your assignments.
Some of these ideas include:
*Why over what
*Process over product
*Stress problem-solving
*Teach ethics explicitly
*Teach how to become a better learner explicitly
*Stress collaboration
This excellent list from "dailystem.com" will give you plenty of fun and educational STEM activities you can do at home with your family.
Enjoy!
This is a set of free tools for teachers to create awesome timelines, including:
1. TikiToki - TikiToki is a great application for multimedia timelines making . It allows its users to create stunning animated timelines. TikiToKi is very easy to use and above all its basic version is completely free .
2. Time Glider - This is a web tool that lets you create, collaborate on, and publish zooming/planning interactive timelines for free. It is like Google Maps but for time.
3. OurStory - Ourstory enables you to write stories, tag friends, and add media to collaborative timelines either privately or in public.
4. Capzles - lets you create rich media experiences with videos, photos, music, blogs and documents.
5. Read Write Think - Read Write Think has a beautiful timeline tool that allows users to add project labels and easily create timelines.
6. Xtimeline - Xtimeline is a free web-based timeline that you can use to easily create and share timelines with pictures and videos.
7. TimeToast - TimeToast is another great tool that allows you to create timelines and share them on the web. The process only takes a couple of minutes and is very simple to use.
If you’re looking to add some Saskatchewan-grown or produced ingredients to your dinner table, there are many shops provincewide that offer just that! In addition to local farmers’ markets – which are a great resource and make for a fantastic day of browsing – check out these seven market-style stores that sell produce, dry goods, preserves, meat and more, all sourced from within the prairies.
Explore eight different SEL strategies for use in the classroom or small group settings (including instructions for implementation!).
A collection of videos and ideas to help teach GRIT to your students.
Use YouTube-Like videos to inspire and engage your students! There are some amazing ideas in here.
Small changes to test prep — and the day of the big test — can reap huge rewards. Learn about these brain-friendly strategies that work.
Cognitive science — the study of thought, learning and mental organization — tells us a lot about getting students primed to succeed on tests.
This resource outlines some practices that can help as you approach tests — and even on the day of the test:
1. Use retrieval to lock learning in long-term.
2. Mix up question types with interleaving.
3. Instead of cramming, space out practice.
4. Happiness is powerful.
5. Time of day matters.
6. Soak up the sun.
7. Breaks are essential.
8. Get up and move, move, move.
This list of suggested teaching strategies is to assist teachers in the development of learning experiences with their students is adapted from Gagne’s Nine Universal Steps of Instruction.
This article examines the steps required to involve students in their assessment. This article aligns closely with the PeBL philosophy and involves students throughout the learning process.
"Learning skills to support our mental health early in life can provide significant benefits to our physical, emotional, and social growth for life. For example, for children to choose calm in times of stress, they first need the opportunity to experience calm and practice arriving at a calm state.
All of the tools you find in this toolkit help cultivate calm, mental health, and overall well being. In this resource, learn 9 yoga and mindfulness practices for mental health that are suitable for a variety of settings and time frames: each tool may be as brief as 1 minute or expanded as needed.
Use the tools individually or all together to tailor your own experience, now and for the long term."
*Counting Breath
*Core Breath
*Yoga Poses at Desk
*Brain Break
*Relaxation
You will need to share your email to download the guide.
Differentiation is a teaching method that varies the content, process, product or learning environment related to student interest, learning profile or readiness.
ABC song with both name and sounds, images to match.
ADHD Resource from the DLC
AFIRM Modules are designed to help you learn the step-by-step process of planning for, using, and monitoring an Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) with learners with autism from birth to 22 years of age. Supplemental materials and handouts are available for download.
A Repository of AI tools for teachers from Dan Fitzpatrick - The AI Educator
This list is continuously updated to reflect new AI tools for educators. The list describes the tool and indicates if the resources is free, and highlights what it can be best used to do.
Remember, nothing can replace your professionalism or knowledge of your students, so use these tools with that in mind. What is created will not be "plug and go" but will need you to refine it to make it better suited to your students and their needs.
This resource is one of the "Best Typing Apps for Students in Elementary School". Inspired by Atari’s classic game, Space Invaders, kids will target little pixel aliens by typing the letters that appear above them. There are multiple levels of difficulty, making this a good choice for elementary kids of all ages. Adobe Flash Player required.
ASL Alphabet & letters. Link to their Facebook page for more ideas.