During the development of this Unit I wanted to give students a say in how they were
going to be assessed or how they would like to show me their learning in the form of
an ongoing project. We focused on the curriculum outcomes as well as criteria called
“The Big Six” in History 20. “The Big Six” criteria helped us to develop the leading
question as well as all subsequent project items to follow.
The project focuses on the significance of events, items, or persons during the First
World War and their lasting impact on society. Our Big Six focus was Historical
Significance and Evidence.

Students have been hired to write a chapter on the Great War for the years covering 1914 to 1919 for a high school history book. The publisher, however, has put them on a tight budget for the number of pages and illustrations. Students, taking the roles of historians and authors, must choose only the three most important events of the time. They are responsible for researching the events of the First World War and writing a letter to the textbook publisher outlining and defending their choice of events. Students must use the criteria of historical significance when making their argument.

The students will use the dialectical format for summarizing the pros and cons for the Corn Laws and for the CWB, followed by a summary with the comparisons (regarding impact on markets and production, reasons for existence and reasons for repulsion.)   

A dialectical essay presents a controversial problem and develops two opposing arguments or sides of the issue, citing evidence for both. At the end of a dialectical essay, a thesis or conclusion must be reached and adequately explained. This essay topic is: Should Canadian Military Battles in WWI be Credited With Helping to Create a "Canadian Identity"?

The purpose of this project is to get you to think critically about a topic that you believe to be important to our identity as Canadians. Remember we have tried to focus on Canadian identity in this course.

Option 1: RESEARCH Top 3 flight contributions

CRITERIA:

Create a magazine entry or a digital story telling creations, which includes 3 paragraphs (& pictures) on what you consider to be the top 3 biggest contributions to flight. Make sure to list your references. If you are doing a digital story telling creation you will only need a rough copy and not a good copy.
Make sure you are including how it impacts humans and your daily life.
Option 2: Create an online timeline

Create a timeline using an online tool from one of the tools suggestion from the article below (or any other ones you may find!):

The main purpose of grading is to inform our pedagogy. A grade should tell the student, the teacher and the parents how a student performs in comparison a well-defined standardized outcome.

The grade should help direct the students further learning by identifying the student’s position on the journey to mastery.

The students would work in groups to prepare an entrée and a dessert. They would receive five mystery ingredients that they would have to incorporate into their dishes on the spot without a recipe to follow. They had to use their cooking knowledge and skills to come up with a meal and a desert that showcased the mystery ingredients, without looking for or using recipes (critical thinking). They worked in groups and, because they were restricted in time, had to be able to communicate quickly and work together well (collaboration). They made videos similar to the ones at the beginning of the show where the competitors introduce themselves. (Technology - new cameras/cellphones to video).

How would a Polar Bear do if you put it in the desert? Not well. But why? Why can't anything live anywhere? Well, this has to do with Habitats and how animals (including humans) are suited for living in one place over another. In this episode, Sabrina talks about how these Habitats form Food Webs and how those Food Webs help us understand a lot about the world.

The purpose of us feeling anxiety in our bodies is so that we will ‘DO SOMETHING’ to try to eliminate the event, situation or thing that we are worried about. This is a primitive and basic survival instinct that we still have deeply embedded in our brains. The problem is…we don’t need to run away from saber tooth tigers anymore!

However, instead of having the idea of “I need to get rid of this feeling” we need to change it to “whatever is happening right at this moment, I CAN HANDLE that.”

What we need to do is learn about anxiety and how it works in our bodies and then break anxiety down into small pieces, and take it step by step. It may start with learning about how anxiety works and feels in our bodies; the sensations we get from anxiety. Starting with what happens in our brain and body when we are anxious. Then we need to learn what we can do with those sensations to lessen them and our anxiety. Then we work on our anxious thoughts and work to change the dialogue we have in our heads about anxiety. Essentially we break anxiety down into small chewable bites. This is in order to give you some success.

This guide will help you to use search engines, such as Google, to access useful, quality information in a timely manner.

Science Background: Light travels in straight lines, and this activity allows students to observe light and think critically about how they experience light in their lives. A common misconception for students is that the light comes from their eyes to light up the object, so drawing rays as arrowheads that show the direction of the light is a key concept.
Materials: index cards, ruler, coloured markers or pencils, hole punch, sticky tack, drinking straw, flashlight or ray box, beaker or glass, water

Science Background: Sound waves behave in the same way as light and water waves. This activity allows students to “see” sound.
Materials: plastic wrap, small yogurt container, elastic band, 1mL salt, tuning fork, water

1. Don’t divulge private information – there is no reason to ever give out your personal information in an online forum.

2. Read the Rules – Forums typically have rules of what is allowed and what is not. Make sure you read and understand the rules. Those who break the rules may be blocked.

3. Post in the Proper Forum – Make sure you are on topic when you post in a forum.

4. Avoid making too many new threads; use the search function before asking questions - Many people before you likely had the same question, and therefore there is likely a topic on it already.
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Welding can be a dangerous, life threatening, and dirty job, or a safe, rewarding, and well paying career. Whether one is learning to walk, ride a bicycle, play hockey, football, or just about any other activity you can think of, safety should be your first consideration, regardless of the task that one chooses to challenge. Unfortunately a lot of us humans tend to treat safety the way we treat the instruction manual that came with the new TV. We simply choose to ignore its existence until something goes wrong. The following tips represent some of the many safety recommendations that could save lives, including yours

In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina talks about how humans get the resources we need to survive, even though those resources may come from a long way away.