After reading a short story, students use freewriting as a catalyst for a literary analysis essay.
Using books by Ezra Jack Keats as inspiration, students explore problems and solutions through read-alouds, discussion, and an interactive bulletin board.
Students are exposed to wordless picture books and begin developing story lines, both orally and in writing, using an online, interactive story map.
Students practice writing detailed, sensory-rich descriptions by framing a small piece of nature and freewriting about it. From this minilesson, students can develop a variety of types of writing.
Mini Lesson Ideas on Creativity
This lesson examines the different roles scientists play in discoveries. Students will research various satellites and their uses. In addition, they will explore the different careers associated with the development of satellites, as well as, the technology used to communicate the scientific discoveries from those satellites. This is one of several activities available in the Swift: Eyes through Time collection on the Teachers' Domain website.
Assess how to find credible sources of financial advice.
Teacher Guide included.
3-5 hours
Investigate factors that affect one’s credit file.
Teacher Guide included.
7-10 hours
Provided by the Government of Saskatchewan to the University of Regina, this is a Cree Language Learning resource that one can download and use for free.
The comprehensive resource includes chapters on dialects, many grammatical topics, expressions, vocabulary and much more.
Students explore the viscoelastic properties of silly putty.
Students take their ideas from the classroom page to the community pavement when they participate in a service-learning project based on their multimedia presentations.
Students will really warm up to this lesson about global warming as they study multimedia materials and use a variety of comprehension strategies.
By looking at advertising and mass media critically, students begin to understand how the media oppresses certain groups, convinces people to purchase certain products, and influences culture.
By critically analyzing popular television programs, students develop an awareness of the messages that are portrayed through the media.
Students make predictions about the stories and analyze story elements, compare and contrast the different stories, distinguish between fact and opinion, and draw conclusions supported by evidence from their readings.
« TC² est un organisme à but non lucratif... Notre objectif est d’aider les élèves à apprendre à penser et à penser pour apprendre. »Le site du Critical Thinking Consortium (TC²) propose d'excellentes ressources gratuites pour l'enseignement de la pensée critique, surtout en sciences humaines et en mathématiques.
Sun West Critical Thinking 10-12 High School Guidebook - please use the table of contents to navigate the guidebook. Also, we invite you to share resources you think would be suitable for this guidebook with any of the authors of this guidebook.
Students will explore organic farming, conventional farming, and biotechnology farming methods through a close read approach. Then they will dive deeper into the different production methods by creating a video that discusses the merits and faults of each production method. Lastly, they will write an opinion piece for an Agriculture Studies journal that explains their stance as to the best farming practices.
This video illustrates how a change in the price of one good affects the quantity demanded of another good (complement or substitute).
In this example, students learn how to read a topographic map and understand map contours. This resource is from PUMAS - Practical Uses of Math and Science - a collection of brief examples created by scientists and engineers showing how math and science topics taught in K-12 classes have real world applications.