Students will learn about and present their findings on how the New Year is celebrated in different countries around the world.
This downloadable resources offers 10 weeks of daily plans you can assign with a click! Each day of mix-and-match activities includes skills practice, informal writing, and essay writing.
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In this packet, you’ll find unit plans that remotely guide students to craft a formal essay over the course of two weeks. Plans include two weeks of pre-made assignments, with a mix of pre-writing, targeted skill development, and scaffolded essay drafting. Choose from the following genres:
● Persuasive
● Argumentative
● Literary Analysis
● Expository/Informational
● Narrative
● Rhetorical Analysis
This site offers illustrated recipe picture books that get kid chefs excited about cooking.
Here are 25 fun activities that kids can do at home.
North American Association for Outdoor Education offers a rich bank of resources to get students to interact with nature through art and science exploration. There are many cross-curricular activities that can be done in students’ backyards. Some resources include printable material, while others have links to videos and detailed activity guides. While this resource is North American, rather than specific to Canada or Saskatchewan, many of the activities align with Saskatchewan Curriculum.
Each age level find:
- Resource Guides, Lesson Plans, and Teaching Activities
- Interactive Websites
- Apps
- Podcasts & Videos
North Star chronicles the exceptional journey of Laurie Rousseau-Nepton, a young, Quebec-born Innu astrophysicist who’s leading a massive research project at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. Drawing on a worldview rooted in a love of nature, as well as her talents as a science communicator, Laurie shares her passion for the study of celestial objects.
The site has options for:
- Kids (recommended for K-5 students)
- General Resources (recommended for older students and a general audience)
- Advanced Resources (recommended for independent researchers)
- Resources for University of the Arctic students
- Resources for K-12 Teachers
The "For Kids" section contains information about the northern countries. On this site, students can be a detective, looking at images and writing about and by people of the North to try to discover the story they tell. Or, they can look at exhibits, where other people have told one story based on the same information.
Resources for teachers includes questions, activities, and points to other sites which may be of interest to students and of assistance in developing your lesson plans. In some cases, references can be linked directly back to one of the exhibits created specifically for this site. Additionally, there are links to other resources which may be of use.
The following are notebook files for supporting ELA.
Students will either, in their school, outside, or in their home, find nouns that start with the letter in the appropraite boxes.Students will write down 3 verbs they could act out and write two sentences using a noun and verb together below. Students will draw an object based on the clues/descriptions that are read to them.
Find reading recommendations appropriate for children, teens and adults in NoveList Plus. This readers’ advisory tool assists readers in finding fiction and non-fiction print and audiobooks based on their interests. Students can find read-alike and listen-alike recommendations based on their favourite titles and authors.
Find reading recommendations appropriate for children and teens in NoveList Plus K-8. This readers’ advisory tool assists readers in finding fiction and non-fiction print based on their interests. Students can find read-alike and listen-alike recommendations based on their favourite titles and authors.
Using an online Menu to produce an Independent Novel Study:
Main Course - the essential question of novel using quotes and explanations
Side Dishes - three detail and explanation questions about novel
Dessert - project on symbolic representation of a character in the novel
Novel Effect makes storytime a little more fun for kids (and grown-ups too!) As you read out loud from print books (or ebooks!) music, sound effects, and character voices play at just the right moment, adjusting and responding to your voice.
This site offers short videos about numbers that help kids explore complex math topics and make math more fun.
Following are a series of activities in which students apply various math skills to better understand the problems of world hunger and what steps are being taken to reduce the number of people without enough to eat. This is Activity #1 of 5 in this lesson.
Following are a series of activities in which students apply various math skills to better understand the problems of world hunger and what steps are being taken to reduce the number of people without enough to eat. This activity makes use of basic math skills to learn more about the energy value of food. A link to the US Dept. of Agriculture National Nutrient Database is listed here. Teachers may want to browse through the database first and determine the best way to present it to students: let them explore the entire database or make a condensed chart for students to reference. This activity is #5 of 5 in this lesson.
Following are a series of activities in which students apply various math skills to better understand the problems of world hunger and what steps are being taken to reduce the number of people without enough to eat. This actions looks at probability from the perspective of reducing child mortality. This is Activity #4 of 5 in this lesson.
Following are a series of activities in which students apply various math skills to better understand the problems of world hunger and what steps are being taken to reduce the number of people without enough to eat. This activity looks at how the number of people affected by hunger is changing. Students will understand the dynamic nature of the problem and the challenges of reaching the Millennium Development Goal to reduce the number of people suffering from hunger by half by 2015. This is Activity #2 of 5 in this lesson.