I created this assessment rubric for my grade 9 math class during my internship and I believe that it reflects a 21st century teaching style. This assessment allows students to present their knowledge through a real world application. It also allowed students to be creative and imaginative when presenting the content learning. Students were able to construct a project that was of interest to them for example a water park and paintball course were some of the projects created. After correcting students assignments one change that I would make to the rubric is requiring students to show the formula that they used so that it makes their work easier to follow and correct. Also, although I had communicated to my students the curricular outcome being covered in this unit, I feel that it would have had more impacted if it was stated again on the rubric sheet.

Review math concepts but transfering responsibility and having your students review old math concepts. 

My goal for this year was to add math games to my repertoire of teaching strategies as part of my regular classroom routine. I looked at this as the first step to moving towards a guided math program. Also our PLT group was working on ways to increase the level of math fact knowledge in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. The Saskatchewan Curriculum recognizes that “mental mathematics is a combination of cognitive strategies that enhance flexible thinking and number sense. It is calculating mentally and reasoning about the relative size of quantities without the use of external memory aids. Mental mathematics enables students to determine answers and propose strategies without paper and pencil. It improves computational fluency and problem solving by developing efficiency, accuracy, and flexibility.” I also wanted to increase opportunities for communication and collaboration. Some of my math games involved building, creating and problem solving. Others involved competition and cooperation. I created a brochure that highlighted the favorite games of the students and it also provides links where teachers can find these games.

Mental Wellness – Basics is a course that introduces adolescents to concepts related to mental health and wellness. Stigma associated with mental health can have serious and negative impacts on help-seeking behaviors, and many mental health conditions and symptoms can be significantly lessened through prevention. As such, this course will do the following:

Support students in identifying threats to mental health early, and taking measures to increase factors that protect mental health.
Attempt to reduce stigma by introducing students to the experiences of others in order to develop awareness and empathy, as well as by providing facts on the prevalence and symptoms of mental health conditions.
Foster a mental health mindset in students and help them develop feelings of self-efficacy by introducing knowledge and skills that promote and model advocacy for self and others.

This Course Covers
Self Awareness
Self Management
Relationship Skills
Social Awareness
Responsible Decision-Making

Introducing the motion and relative position unit with this engaging and
interactive lesson allows students to demonstrate their understanding of
relative position. Being a new teacher to the Sun West School Division, I
wanted to submit an artifact that included most of the 21st century
competencies focused on within the division thus far. Within this
introduction lesson, students will use their creativity and collaboration skills
to create a collage that demonstrates their understanding of relative
position. Since students are using technology to complete the learning
activity, they are also practicing their digital citizenship skills. The digital
citizenship elements that are addressed within this lesson are: digital access
(element of respect) and digital rights and responsibilities (element of
protect). Students are demonstrating an understanding that using
technology is a right, not a privilege and that they must work together on
the IPads to complete a task. Students will also demonstrate an
understanding that the IPads are being used as a learning tool, so they must
only use them as instructed.

Summer vacation has come to an end and school is back in session! Students will reminisce about their summer fun as they follow a step-by-step HTML/CSS tutorial in the Text Code Editor, where they'll create their own web page that captures the spirit of their summer adventures. By the end of this lesson, students will have combined creativity with problem-solving skills while reinforcing coding concepts and HTML/CSS syntax.

Ideas for children to do when they are not in school to keep learning!

Students in our grade one class find this culminating project a lot of fun as we talk about all the different ways that many recycled materials can be used to create other things that are useful or just plain fun to build! Many of the students create things with the help of the parents, but we ask that the ideas for what to build are supplied by the students themselves, of course parents do like to help with the construction phase in most cases. We have the students come up with the ideas for what they would like to build at school, often using the construction sheet as a guideline to take home for the building
process.

"OK Go Sandbox is an online resource for educators that uses OK Go’s music videos as starting points for integrated guided inquiry challenges allowing students to explore various STEAM concepts."

My artifact this year was teaching a Guided Math unit with my Grade 7 class. I had my students
work together with similar abilities to achieve full learning potential. My supports and guidance while doing this unit was other teachers in our school who are already implementing Guided Math in their classroom. Students collaborated well within their groups and were happy with the process and their individual results.

LessonIntroduction
-students will be handed out a review sheet on measuring angles, perpendicular lines, parallel lines and angle bisectors. (10 mins)

Body
-Students will be instructed to use popsicle sticks and marshmallows to construct a building. They are to ensure that some walls will be perpendicular to each other as well as parallel along with the roof. An expectation is that the building will be symmetrical and all angles on each side will be equal to the other side. (30 mins)

"Aperçu : Il s'agit de l'une des meilleures ressources scientifiques pour la maternelle à la 12e année !

Des ressources sont disponibles pour les niveaux préscolaire à la 12e année, comprenant de nombreux articles et vidéos destinés aux élèves pour explorer les nombreux concepts scientifiques enseignés en classe.

Vous pouvez :
*Réserver une visite éducative d'un scientifique pour enseigner les STEM (science, technologie, ingénierie et mathématiques) à votre classe.

*Inscrire vos élèves de la 6e à la 8e année à des événements d'enrichissement compétitifs en équipe.

*Utiliser CurioCity avec les élèves de la 8e à la 12e année pour en apprendre davantage sur les carrières STEM, l'espace et d'innombrables autres sujets grâce à des vidéos. Vous pouvez également vous inscrire et obtenir d'incroyables ressources STEM (en anglais ou en français) gratuitement ! (Elles sont même alignées sur le programme d'études de la Saskatchewan !)

*Visiter Ideapark pour les élèves de la maternelle à la 3e année afin de vous inscrire et d'obtenir accès à une multitude de ressources STEM gratuites.

*Vous inscrire à Tomatosphère pour étudier les effets de l'espace sur la germination des graines avec votre classe. Tomatosphère™ est un programme pratique qui développe les compétences d'investigation scientifique et d'expérimentation."

**Cette ressource s'attache à la majorité de RAs pour l'immersion en français.

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Aperçu : Bienvenue dans les leçons de codage Make Stuff Move. Cette première leçon va vous montrer comment définir la couleur et la luminosité du pixel et l'allumer sur notre bouclier d'animation Make Stuff Move.

What do plants need? Students examine the effects of light and air on green plants, learning the processes of photosynthesis and transpiration. Student teams plant seeds, placing some in sunlight and others in darkness. They make predictions about the outcomes and record ongoing observations of the condition of the stems, leaves and roots. Then, several healthy plants are placed in glass jars with lids overnight. Condensation forms, illustrating the process of transpiration, or the release of moisture to the atmosphere by plants.

Students gain an understanding of the parts of a plant, plant types and how they produce their own food from sunlight through photosynthesis. They also learn about transpiration, the process by which plants release moisture to the atmosphere. With this understanding, students test the effects of photosynthesis and transpiration by growing a plant from seed. They learn how plants play an important part in maintaining a balanced environment in which the living organisms of the Earth survive. This lesson is part of a series of six lessons in which students use their evolving understanding of various environments and the engineering design process, to design and create their own model biodome ecosystems.

This year my major plan for integrating critical thinking and collaboration included a major classroom change. I was rearranged my classroom into pods and I started presenting my lessons in a flipped form.
The pods and flipped classroom provided an opportunity for critical thinking and collaboration. The students were to watch the videos and write down any questions they had on the material. They then met up as a group to go over the material. I found the students would have impressive conversations on the material. They then also worked in their pods to complete the daily practice. I found it was great for the students to be able to work together through problems and struggles. I was constantly happy to hear the students offer their own explanations to each other.

The grade 6 students completed their unit of study on principles of flight. As an end of unit project, they were asked to create a working prototype of a flying object. The students were given a couple of examples from the textbook (page 208 & 213) of objects they could create. These examples were given to encourage the students to think of ideas and gear them on the right track. Therefore, they were asked not to use these examples (although the students that had trouble thinking of their own project were able to use them). As a class, we agreed upon the required performance criteria. The students were then given a handout to fill in as they built their prototype. This handout was to be handed in once the project was completed. An assessment rubric was also given. The students were asked to write a paragraph on each of the assessment rubric categories, explaining how their prototype met that particular category. Next the students were given a few classes to work on their prototype. Once completed, the students were asked to give a presentation where they would describe their project and demonstrate it. The project was assessed using the criteria set out by the students and the rubrics in the teacher’s guide.