8 sets of free decodable books (TONS of free books in total!). Each book includes the sounds needed to read the book, as well as example key words with that sound.
*Be sure to read the instructor's guide before you get started!
The Ready, Check, Go! Series is a physical activity tracker designed to help children and their parents/guardians understand the importance and enjoyment of incorporating regular daily physical activity in ways that suit their personal beliefs and needs.
The Ready, Check, Go! Series includes:
- Participant/Student Workbook to track physical activity (ages 9-11 and 12-14), and Leader/Teacher, and Parent Guides
- Activities to promote the importance of participating in regular physical activity
- Goal setting worksheets to help enhance physical activity behaviours
- Inclusive activities for children of all abilities
The objective of this program is to help children, youth and their parents/guardians understand the importance of regular physical activity; their current physical activity behaviours; and strategies to help them engage in more physical activities. This knowledge can help increase the amount of physical activity children and youth engage in, value and enjoy, in ways that suit their personal beliefs and needs. Specifically, the Ready, Check, Go! is a learning activity to help children aged 9-14 discover more about:
- How physically active they are on typical day;
- The different types of activities they undertake, when, and for how long;
- The intensity (moderate- to vigorous) of their physical activity;
- Identifying ways that they can be more active.
Register with PHE Canada for free access to this resource.
In this brief, Christine Patton and Justina Wang, from Harvard Family Research Project, look at ways of helping to make the transition into kindergarten a positive experience that will serve as a foundation to help children reach their full potential throughout their school years. The brief highlights promising practices in six states—New Jersey, Georgia, Maryland, Minnesota, Virginia, and California—where local- and state-level leadership support a variety of initiatives to ensure successful transitions into kindergarten. The authors examine effective collaborative approaches in which state departments of education, advocacy organizations, school districts, early education teachers, kindergarten teachers, families, and community members work together to help kindergartners enter school ready to begin this pivotal new phase of their lives
In this lesson, students consider the different factors that make online sources reliable or unreliable. They then learn quick steps they can take to gauge an online source’s reliability and practice these steps by playing an interactive online game.
Evaluating Online Resources for Credibility - information and mini game to practice checking the reliability and credibility of the website/ source.
"Rebecca Burgess sees a problem with the way many people perceive the autism spectrum. Her resolution? The comic below. The Tumblr user debuted “Understanding the Spectrum” (below), which gets rid of the linear autism spectrum image (i.e. you’re either “not autistic, “very autistic” or somewhere in between) and replaces it with a round spectrum full of several traits or ways the brain processes information."
This is a self-guided PD opportunity from the SK Ministry of Education.
Start by downloading and reviewing the PPT "Reconciliation and Treaty Education: Curricular Connections and Resources"
Then review some/all of the other opportunities including:
Introductory Module - Supporting the Journey Towards Reconciliation (also available here: https://resourcebank.ca/courses/supporting-the-journey-towards-reconciliation)
Module 1 - Starting the Conversation (also available here: https://resourcebank.ca/courses/module-1-starting-the-conversation-from-the-sk-ministry-of-education)
Module 2 - The Sixties Scoop (also available here: https://resourcebank.ca/courses/sixties-scoop)
Concentus Citizenship Education - Moving Toward Reconciliation (also available here: https://resourcebank.ca/courses/k-12-resources-for-citizenship-education-from-concentus)
Video recording on how to record your voice using Audacity
From the Wabisabi blog by Lee Wantanabe-Crockett
15 reflection questions for learners of all ages. These are very useful for professional development as well as for students.
To continue to raise awareness and showcase our love for one another a colouring book was created.
This initiative brought together Indigenous artists of all ages to contribute their work that focuses on Indigenous culture, safety, and honouring those affected by MMIWG2S+.
Visit this Saskatchewan based site that offers lots of great lessons/units that focus mainly on integrating Aboriginal science and technology with the provincial science curriculum.
The CCSTU project has produced:
- strategies for teaching and assessing students (illustrated in the materials produced)
- 6 exemplary curriculum units (Wild Rice, Trapping, Snowshoes, Nature's Hidden Gifts, The Night Sky, Survival in Our Land)
- a prototype process for adapting any curriculum material to suit the local culture
- " Teacher Guide" for CCSTU
- "Stories from the field", a guide to involving community people.
The main site can be accessed at https://education.usask.ca/ccstu/main_menu.html
This is a set of lecture notes for my course Relativity for Poets at Fullerton College. It's a nonmathematical presentation of Einstein's theories of special and general relativity, including a brief treatment of cosmology.
Follow the link to the Google Play or Apple Store to download the Release App for Mindfulness. This app was created by Keynote Speaker Trinna Markusson at iLearn & SWTA for 2020.
"This new wellness app incorporates mindfulness and tapping techniques to help empower you to begin to deal with daily stress, difficult emotions and limiting beliefs that can hold you back from living your best life! With categories for adults, teens, kids, classroom use and a special high-performance category for athletes, Release can help you to stay present and to live with more peace and ease."
For more information visit (copy and paste into a browser) - http://www.presentmomentliving.ca/
This tutorial explains how to remix an Open Author resources. You should also watch the Open Author tutorial along with this.
This free course from Matt Miller of Ditch That Textbook examines the heart of what you need as an educator to move to remote learning.
"Remote Learning 101 is a FREE self-paced online course with lots of tips, ideas, resources and downloadable content to help YOU think through remote learning.
It includes:
• 14 modules on a variety of remote learning topics
• More than TWO HOURS of video instruction with me
• Downloadable planning guides to help you strategize
• A comment community with question prompts to engage in discussion
• Lifetime access"
This document contains the following:
Curriculum Renewal
Using this Curriculum Support Document
Broad Areas of Learning
Cross-curricular Competencies
Aims
Goals
Understanding the Conceptual Foundations
Identifying the Big Ideas
Outcomes
Assessment and Evaluation
Planning with a Focus on the Outcomes
Reflecting on the Conceptual Foundations
Next Steps
Appendix A: Broad Areas of Learning
Appendix B: Cross-curricular Competencies
Appendix C: Aims for Areas of Study
Appendix D: Goals for Areas of Study
Appendix E: Questions and Responses
Bibliography
"Based on the information provided in Renewed Curricula: Understanding Outcomes (2010), this resource may be used in professional learning workshops or meetings to provide an overview of curriculum renewal including examination of student outcomes in an area of study. The discussion questions and suggested activities included in this resource may be adapted to support individual teacher reflection and planning, subject area or grade-alike professional learning groups, an entire school staff, cluster of schools, or school division-wide in-service."
This learning can be completed individually or facilitated with a larger group.
The learning surrounds the Ministry Document "Renewed Curricula" Understanding Outcomes". This can also be found in The Resource Bank by copying and pasting this web address into your browser: https://resourcebank.ca/courses/renewed-curricula-understanding-outcomes
There rubrics can help you assess where your school and/or class currently fit within the REORDER framework, and plan to further develop or improve and goal set.
Report Card Information
This card-based learning tool is designed to help participants explore the possibilities of unique pathways for learning. In teams of 4 -7 players, each participant takes on the role of a learner, aged 17-21. Based on their goal, a challenge and an interest, learners choose opportunities and resources that match their needs and meet the expectations of a learning framework.