What do beavers, termites, and prairie dogs have in common? They all change their environments! We know that humans change their environments, but humans are animals and all animals change their environments just by living in them.
There is a lot of excitement around the field of Big Data, but today we want to take a moment to look at some of the problems it creates. From questions of bias and transparency to privacy and security concerns, there is still a lot to be done to manage these problems as Big Data plays a bigger role in our lives.
Go Away, Big Green Monster!ŰÓEd EmberleyŰŞs tale about a scary, multicolored monsterŰÓis used to help students build their reading fluency and word recognition skills. In this lesson, students chorally read the story and then point out familiar color words or sight words that appear in the story. After finishing the story, students are introduced to four different literacy center activities that include participating in a read along, building word families with story words, playing a memory game with color words from the story, and retelling story events using sentence strips. In the sessions that follow, students create their own artwork of the big green monster and use that artwork to help them write a story. Students use both self- and peer-editing to improve their writing. Completed stories are either published on the Internet or in a class book.
Hank tells us the story of the complicated chemical dance that allows our skeletal muscles to contract and relax.:Cardiac, Smooth, & Skeletal Muscles,Muscle Anatomy ,Muscle Fibers, Myofibrils, Sarcomeres,Myofilaments
Hank tells us the story of the complicated chemical dance that allows our skeletal muscles to contract and relax.
TourismSaskatchewan video highlighting Indigenous cuisine through three different contexts: historical recipes and significance of beaver tail, Bannock Express restaurant in Saskatoon, and ending with Moose Woods Home Fire Grill at Dakota Dunes Resort.
Series of videos on the Big Bang, Universe and Evolutionary history created by the team at Crash Course
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Momentum is not only a physical principle; it is a psychological phenomenon. Students learn how the "Big Mo" of the bandwagon effect contributes to the development of fads and manias, and how modern technology and mass media accelerate and intensify the effect. Students develop media literacy and critical thinking skills to analyze trends and determine the extent to which their decisions may be influenced by those who manipulate a few opinion leaders. Note: The literacy activities for the Mechanics unit are based on physical themes that have broad application to our experience in the world concepts of rhythm, balance, spin, gravity, levity, inertia, momentum, friction, stress and tension.
The film follows the timber industry from logging through to export.
Online peer support.
This is an excellent resource for teachers, parents, and adult learners. Students should contact their school counselor for support, if possible.
In this card game students play in pairs to practice recognizing the biggest number.
The purpose of this task is for students to interpret two distance-time graphs in terms of the context of a bicycle race. There are two major mathematical aspects to this: interpreting what a particular point on the graph means in terms of the context, and understanding that the "steepness" of the graph tells us something about how fast the bicyclists are moving.
This video profiles a trip from Saskatchewanderer to Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park as an example of travel influencers and their impact on tourism.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach second graders about bills and coins - word problems.
A big name in free online translation websites is Bing, which uses Microsoft Translator. You can select your input language or have the site automatically detect it as you type. If you have your microphone enabled, you can speak the text you want to be translated, which seems quite convenient if you ask us.
After you receive the translation, you have options to hear it aloud in a male or female voice, share it, or search Bing with it. Moreover, you can also give the translation a thumbs-up or thumbs-down if you would like to provide a little feedback. The free translator offers over 60 languages.
The game Bingo is transformed in this lesson in which students use symbols and images to make connections to environmental print through the use of personalized Bingo cards.
Pour célébrer la Saint-Valentin tout en révisant des mots de vocabulaire dans une ambiance ludique, rien de mieux que de jouer au bingo de la Saint-Valentin avec vos élèves du primaire.
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Le jeu populaire du bingo peut être transformé en une activité amusante pour apprendre les tables de multiplication. Au lieu d’annoncer simplement un chiffre, l’enseignant dicte l’opération mathématique dont le résultat correspond à l’un des nombres sur la carte de bingo.
Try this variation on the Art experience âdecorate binoculars.â It uses small plastic bottles instead of cardboard tubes to make binoculars. They are sturdy and provide a great reinforcement to recycling.