This site offers a way to maintain a balance with the use of technology while working with students at home and school. It includes information on:
Getting good information
Managing family tech
Explaining news and media coverage to kids
Online games
Media literacy lessons
This is a great introductory video to neuroscience. Understanding how the brain works can help students tap into their metacognition and be more successful learners.
A FREE Psychological First Aid Guide from the Canadian Red Cross
The likelihood that a sudden crisis event might affect you or someone you know is higher than you think. That is why it’s critical that you take the steps to learn Psychological First Aid and prepare yourself to handle the extreme stress that a crisis event can cause.
The guide will teach you:
How to create your own self-care plan
The Look, Listen, Link, Live Cycle
How to provide Psychological First Aid to others
The Do No Harm Principles
1 in 5 Canadians Experience Mental Illness in Any Given Year. We All Know Someone.
And yet, one of the biggest issues in our health care system – and society at large – is that mental health is not taken as seriously, and treated as urgently, as physical health. But when you hear the stories, and see the impact mental illness has on the lives of so many around us, it's hard to stand idly by. Together, we can and must change the way mental health is treated not just in Canada, but around the world. We invite you all to join the movement. Watch the videos. Share the content. Donate now.
#MentalHealthIsHealth
Mental Wellness Basics introduces students 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, the lessons in this course focus on:
Supporting students in identifying threats to mental health early, and taking measures to increase factors that protect mental health.
Introducing students to the experiences of others in order to develop awareness and empathy, reduce stigma, and provide facts on the prevalence and symptoms of mental health conditions.
Fostering a mental health mindset to help students develop feelings of self-efficacy 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
This is a strategy for checking on students' mental wellness in your classroom.
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
With Mentimeter you have lots of options. One great option is to create interactive quizzes that will make your classroom fun. What better way to get students excited about learning than to introduce a fun interactive game or quiz to the classroom? Create some friendly rivalry between students and create a sense of community by using an interactive quiz. Switch up standard teaching techniques and wake up students with some interactive games.
Mentimeter allows you to build interactive presentations with the easy-to-use online editor. Add questions, polls, quizzes, slides, images, gifs and more to your presentation to create fun and engaging presentations.
Your audience uses their smartphones to connect to the presentation where they can answer questions. Visualize their responses in real-time to create a fun and interactive experience.
Once your Mentimeter presentation is over, share and export your results for further analysis and even compare data over time to measure the progress of your audience.'
Meteor is an educational tool kit created by Doctors Without Borders to teach students about humanitarian work and the situations Doctors Without Borders’ aid workers face. Students can use role play to put themselves in the shoes of a team member of Doctors Without Borders (doctor, nurse, logistician, etc.) and respond to different emergency situations such as armed conflict or natural disasters.
With some slight adaptations, this module can be completed without the use of tech.
This kit will be downloaded from the BCTF site.
Science Background:
Methane gas is lighter than oxygen gas, causing the methane bubbles to rise. This can be used to demonstrate that even though both gases are colourless and odourless, they are made of different substances and therefore have different masses and properties. The reaction is caused by the combustion reaction. Anytime a hydrocarbon such as methane is burned, the products are water and carbon dioxide.
Materials: Water, Splint, meter stick, tape, dish soap, Gas line with hose
Aperçu : Apprenez comment mettre en marche le micro:bit, programmez ses fonctionnalités et créez vos premiers projets.
Le micro:bit de la BBC est un ordinateur de poche qui vous initie au fonctionnement conjoint du logiciel et du matériel. Il dispose d'un écran à LED, de boutons, de capteurs et de nombreuses fonctionnalités d'entrée/sortie qui, une fois programmées, lui permettent d'interagir avec vous et votre environnement.
L'informatique dans votre salle de classe - Le micro:bit facilite la réussite immédiate en programmation. Il est idéal pour des introductions simples et concrètes aux technologies numériques et informatiques. Il aide les élèves à comprendre ce que sont les technologies numériques et informatiques et comment elles fonctionnent.
Learn how to get the micro:bit working, program its features and create your first projects.
The BBC micro:bit is a pocket-sized computer that introduces you to how software and hardware work together. It has an LED light display, buttons, sensors and many input/output features that, when programmed, let it interact with you and your world.
Computing in your classroom - The micro:bit makes it easy to have immediate success with coding. It’s great for simple, tangible introductions to digital and computing technologies. Helping students learn what digital and computing technologies are and how they work.
This is a lesson on how to use the Django Admin Panel for importing, exporting and changing externally hosted records.
Microsoft Training & Support.
*information on specific apps
*learn the basics
*training templates
*quickstarts
*tips
"Learn new skills, discover classroom activities and earn badges and certificates!"
This amazing resource has content and courses and a variety of learning paths for teachers. There are great lessons you can learn with your kids, or you can go here to develop the skills you need to infuse technology into your classroom successfully.
Intro courses include Minecraft, blended learning, personalized learning, and student voice. Also available are learning to use applications such as Forms, OneNote, etc.
This will also connect you to Skype in the Classroom to literally make the world your classroom!
Immersive Reader is part of the Learning Tools included in Microsoft Office 365 and Office 2016 applications. How to find Immersive reader in popular apps like OneNote Online, 2016 and iOS iPad, and Word Online.
Great free reading tool for Dyslexic / SEND / EAL Students in Office 365
"A 5 day help guide which outlines quick steps that can help shape thinking around the move to remote learning."
Microsoft has put together a 5-day guide for school leaders which outlines quick steps that can help shape thinking around the move to remote learning. In addition, Microsoft developed a Microsoft Teams quick start guide, a set of webinars for educators and staff and a specific resource for parents.
Video explanation of how to use Teams for reading fluency.
Find short videos to support for what you need for Microsoft Teams here.