Investigate taxes paid by individuals in Saskatchewan.

Teacher Guide included.

5-8 hours

Examine the relationship between taxation and First Nations people in Saskatchewan and Canada.

Teacher Guide included.

2-3 hours

These free STEM lessons, projects, and activities can be used to teach about simple machines with hands-on science experiments to investigate how levers, pulleys, ramps, screws, and wheel and axle systems offer mechanical advantages that make it easier to perform tasks.

TeachAid serves as your AI teaching assistant, automating lesson preparation. It offers features for lesson planning, assessment planning, interactive presentations, and learning activities, consolidating several tools typically found in different apps into one platform.

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This kit includes 4 lessons and activities for teaching about climate sensitive infectious diseases in Canada.

One of the most difficult aspects of writing is keeping audience in mind throughout the writing process. Developing lessons that support this strategy for writing is essential in the elementary classroom. This lesson supports first-grade students in learning about audience. Through interactive writing, students work together to create a genuine invitation letter for a group of their peers. In addition to the interactive writing experience, students work independently to create invitation letters for their families. Extension activities include conducting additional interactive writing experiences, reading books with samples of letters, and creating invitations at a learning center.

Developed with the support of the Government of Canada, this toolkit of lesson plans and activities explores Sustainable Development Goal #15: Life on Land.

This toolkit:
- Showcases the work AKFC supports in the developing world.
- Encourages students to make personal and community connections to life on land.
- Connects historical artefacts from the Aga Khan Museum to contemporary issues related to life on land.
- Explores Canada’s ambitions, targets, and progress on life on land.

Developed with the support of the Government of Canada, this toolkit of lesson plans and activities explores Sustainable Development Goal #6: Clean Water and Sanitation.

This toolkit:
- Showcases the work AKFC supports in the developing world.
- Encourages students to make personal and community connections to clean water and sanitation.
- Connects historical artefacts from the Aga Khan Museum to contemporary issues related to clean water and sanitation.
- Explores Canada’s ambitions, targets, and progress on clean water and sanitation.

Through four lessons and three hands-on activities, students learn the concepts of refraction and interference in order to solve an engineering challenge: "In 2013, actress Angelina Jolie underwent a double mastectomy, not because she had been diagnosed with breast cancer, but merely to lower her cancer risk. But what if she never inherited the gene(s) that are linked to breast cancer and endured surgery unnecessarily? Can we create a new method of assessing people's genetic risks of breast cancer that is both efficient and cost-effective?" While pursuing a solution to this challenge, students learn about some high-tech materials and delve into the properties of light, including the equations of refraction (index of refraction, Snell's law). Students ultimately propose a method to detect cancer-causing genes by applying the refraction of light in a porous film in the form of an optical biosensor. Investigating this challenge question through this unit is designed for an honors or AP level physics class, although it could be modified for conceptual physics.

Writers and film buffs alike will sharpen their skills in this multimedia unit as they work together to author and design a digital video.

Students tell their life stories in this lesson about autobiographies based on family photographs.

Students use both analytical and creative skills to adapt passages from a novel with significant internal dialogue and conflict, such as Toni Morrison's "Beloved", into a ten-minute play.

Use a reference that you all have access to to complete this text features chart/cheat sheet. Students can use this as a reference as they read non-fiction.You can complete this together as a class, in small groups or individually, depending on the needs of your students.  Consider filling out each feature as you explicitly teach it and demonstrate how to effectively use the feature.  Then allow students to practice the skil with your guidance. 

Students have the right to have fun in this lesson in which they create a PowerPoint presentation about civil rights and the Supreme Court.

Generating Ideas:
Rapid Writing
Setting the Context (What Do My Readers Want to Know?)
Adding Content (Pass It On!)

Developing and Organizing Ideas:
Webbing, Mapping and More
Supporting the Main Idea
Adding Details

Revising and Editing:
Reorganizing Ideas
Asking Questions to Revise Writing
Peer Editing
Proofreading Without Partners

Writing for a Purpose:
Using Templates:
Writing a Procedure
Writing an Information Report
Writing a Business Report
Writing an Explanation

Posters for Instruction: Writing
Generate Ideas
Organize Writing
Revise and Edit

Students examine story elements through teacher read-alouds and independent reading and then use reader-response journals and graphic organizers to prepare for the creation of their own scary stories.

Through Mala's Eyes takes a look at the Inuit community and helps students understand and appreciate one of the diverse cultures that exist within Canada. This resource looks at the life of an Inuit community in northern Quebec, through the eyes of Mala, a twelve year old Inuk boy. Through his first person narratives, Mala provides interesting background information about life in his community.

Downloadable teaching resource provided.

This is an excellent resource for teaching students about Inuit life. This resource speaks directly to students as it is given from the point of view of a twelve year old child. Students ages nine to fourteen should enjoy relating to these stories. It is rare to find a resource about Inuit life that is this modern, positive and engaging.
There are a variety of activities included within the resource, and teachers are encouraged to choose those which best apply to their classroom. There is also a lot of good background information provided in the resource, such as a glossary of Inuit terms and the Inuit alphabet. As well, online links are provided for more information.

This series of lesson plans, built around the first-person narrative of a 12-year-old Inuk boy, will help you and your students appreciate life in the Inuit community of Salluit, in the northern part of Nunavik, Northern Quebec. Although designed for students from 9 to 12 years of age, some of the lesson plans and strategies in this unit can be adapted for other grade levels. Suggested activities and lists of research resources offer exciting and engaging opportunities to learn more about the history, customs and traditions of Inuit in Canada.

The aim of this booklet is to enhance the knowledge of students about the history, cultures and traditions of Inuit and, in particular, those who live in Canada's northern Inuit community of Salluit.

By completing the lessons in this booklet, students will be able to:

- express an appreciation for the strong traditions and unique culture of the Inuit people, in various ways
- describe the various developments that affected Canada's Arctic from its early history to the present
- locate the community of Salluit and its neighbouring Inuit municipalities on a map of Canada
- relate the similarities and differences between life in Salluit and life in their own community.

Through Mala's Eyes...Life in an Inuit Community offers educators opportunities to address provincial learning outcomes in the social studies, history and geography portions of their curriculum. Given the nature of the suggested activities, students will also address learning outcomes in language, the arts and mathematics.

*Audio recordings of student readings are available through the website, but are not hyperlinked in the pdf document.
*With some slight adaptations, this unit can be completed without technology.

This lesson provides teachers with support for using text-dependent questions and Common Core literacy strategies to help students derive big ideas and key understandings while developing vocabulary using the text "Tomas and the Library Lady". With the help of the English-speaking local librarian, Spanish-speaking Tomas is encouraged to assume the role of family storyteller, finding that he cannot only be a learner but a teacher as well.

Canadian Kindergarten through Grade 12 Educators – Investigate the effects of outer space on seed germination with your class. Tomatosphere™ is a hands-on program that builds scientific inquiry and experimentation skills.