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This amazing resource looks at FNME from grades 1 to 9 with an inquiry approach. The key questions are examined for the grades including treaty relationships, spirit and intent, historical context, and treaty promises and provisions.
Following that a specific resource for each grade is included!
The Kindergarten to Grade 9 Treaty Education Learning Resource is designed for teachers to assist them in integrating the Treaty content and perspective with Saskatchewan’s curricula and is based on the inquiry method of teaching. It provides information about Treaties, First Nations people and the history of what is now known as Saskatchewan, as well as sample learning experiences, assessment ideas and suggested resource materials to support teachers in the development of their lessons.
Resources are organized by grade and outcome.
Visit the site to download the resource.
Saskatchewan has a Treaty history that has led us to the Treaty relationship we have today. The OTC Treaty Timeline below is a great way to learn more about that history.
This is a great field trip for your grade 5 class. Tours include, Chicago Connection, Passage to Fortune, and Bunker 24. This field trip aligns well to the topic of immigration.
Teach your students how to make plastic out of milk in this hands-on lesson plan! You will conduct a simple milk-transforming experiment to explore how plastics can be derived from a natural resource such as milk. Students will perform their own experiments and can even create a product from their resulting organic casein polymer.
This resource states that it is appropriate for grade 6-8 however I am going to use it with the grade 5 Properties of Matter unit.
Un, deux, trois... On y va! est un outil utile qui permet de vérifier de degré d’activité physique. Il a été pour aider les parents et les enfants à mieux comprendre l’importance et les joies de l’activité physique quotidienne d’une façon pleinement respectueuse de leurs croyances et besoins personnels.
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Des guides à l’intention des parents et autres responsables, des enseignants et des enfants (8 à 11 ans et 12 à 14 ans) qui permettent de vérifier le taux d’activité physique.
Des activités éducatives qui renforcent l’importance de s’adonner régulièrement à l’activité physique.
Des feuilles de travail pour encourager les enfants et les jeunes à améliorer leurs comportements en matière d’activité physique.
Des activités inclusives et pleinement adaptées aux habiletés particulières de chaque enfant ou jeune.
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The Museum of Natural Sciences at the U of S in Saskatoon showcases the history of Earth and the evolution of life on it through exhibits and displays that include dinosaur skeleton replicas, fossils, live animals and plants, rocks, and minerals.
Free field trips are offered over seven weeks in partnership with the USask science departments, museums and galleries, Science Outreach, and community groups. Join us for hands-on activities and tours at the Museum of Natural Sciences, in teaching laboratories, and at other campus cultural facilities.
Sometimes life can be overwhelming and it can be hard to work through difficult times. This Virtual Calming Room was designed to assist in identifying different strategies for managing emotions.
Resource Links:
-Sounds and Music
-Visual Relaxation
-Guided Practice
-Colouring & Create
-Live Cameras
-Smart Phone Apps
The Best Free Virtual Math Manipulatives All on One Page!
If you are looking for awesome virtual manipulatives for math, there are currently dozens of website sharing free virtual math manipulatives for topics typically covered in grades K-8. To save you tons of time sorting through many websites, we have compiled the best free virtual math manipulatives, all accessible in one place.
This is a one-page choice board with various visual arts projects (including links to full instructions), suitable for Grade 5 students in Saskatchewan.
The PE Warm Up Games section provides you with Physical Education resources which will help you to plan PE Warm Up Games. Each PE Game outlines what equipment is required, how to set the game up, how to play the game and how to differentiate the game. The resources can be downloaded and can support your PE planning. Lots of the resources are free.
The First Nations University, Indigenous Continuing Education Centre (ICEC), is proud to offer an exclusive tutorial introducing the National Centre for Collaboration in Indigenous Education (NCCIE) website and its on-line Teaching Resource Centre for Indigenous and non-Indigenous educators. The Teaching Resource Centre is an invaluable tool for all educators. The lesson plans are searchable by subject and grade. Each lesson plan comes complete with learning outcomes, a teacher’s guide,
activities, assessment guidelines, and materials. Lesson plans and videos were co-developed with community partners across Canada in the spirit of reciprocity – to contribute to the growing educational resources that highlight Indigenous perspectives.
The tutorial is designed to highlight the educational videos, stories, and lessons available on the NCCIE website and support learners and educators in their journey of knowing and understanding Indigenous education.
The tutorial will:
• Describe where to locate useful educational resources (e.g., videos, stories, and lessons) on the NCCIE website.
• Identify resources that may be useful in your educational journey or in your teaching practice.
• Examine and implement a variety of website resources into your courses and contexts.
• Assess the support you may need to deliver website content.
• Design a plan for implementing resources from the NCCIE website.
Topics include:
- Resource Guide Overview
- History of the NCCIE (The National Centre for Collaboration in Indigenous Education
- Integrating Indigenous Content into the Classroom
- Navigating the NCCIE Website
- Four Directions Model for Indigenous Education
- Using a Medicine Wheel in the Classroom
- Integrating Indigenous Content into the Classroom
- Relationship-Building with Indigenous Communities
- Adaptations of lessons to different provincial curricula
An authentic guide to learning about stress, anxiety, depression, self-awareness and wellness. included are TED Talks, definitions, causes, symptoms, triggers and reflections.Included is information and quizzes about stress, anxiety and depression. Also includes a 20+ Slide presentation about the role of the brain!
The PLEA (Public Legal Education association of Saskatchewan)publication outlines the history behind the First Nation treaties in Canadian history and their relationship to the law.
Math puzzles to get students talking about their mathematical thinking. The site provides a collection of shape, number and graph sets. Each activity has four images/numbers, students then need to pick which one doesn't belong. But the trick is this, the puzzles do not have one correct answer. This can lead to interesting conversation and descriptions of what the student notices about the arrangement.
If you think up your own, you can submit them to the site.
Word Connections is a supplemental reading intervention program.
It includes 40 lessons (40 min each), divided into four units of instruction.
Developed for students in third grade and above who continue to experience challenges with word reading even though they have developed foundational decoding skills.
The lessons focus on promoting automaticity with reading “big words.”
Using morphology as the framework to teach students how to learn the meaning of words that are new or unfamiliar to them.
