This guide will help you get started using Mathletics in your classroom. In Sun West, contact your SBA for log in information.
CommonLit 360 is here! The CommonLit Team is so excited to show teachers the CommonLit 360 Curriculum. This comprehensive, fully digital, and engaging curriculum is available for FREE for all teachers with a CommonLit account here: https://www.commonlit.org/en/library/.... Yes, it's all free!
In this webinar, our very own Adrienne Favors, who has held a key role in developing the curriculum, will walk you through all of the NEW units and lesson types you’ll be seeing on CommonLit.
Sun West teachers and students can access CommonLIt & CommonLit360 via the CLEVER portal.
Number Talks are a very valuable tool to use in engaging students in talking and learning about math and math concepts.
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After presenting the basic ideas of a RAFT to students as well as the sample roles, audiences, formats, topics and verbs, place students into cooperative groups and give them the following assignment. The assignment is also outlined on the student page)
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Your teacher will explain the important aspects about writing RAFTs. You should refer to the notes below in developing your own RAFTs.
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What is Parent Engagement
Why is Parent Engagement Important
Parent engagement activities
Planning Parent Engagement Toolkit (external link)
“Hospitality and invitation remain empty gestures until they are made with the genuine intention to open up the school space and agenda, to co-create it with parents and other caregivers as well as with students” - from Parent Engagement: Creating a Shared World (external PDF) by Debbie Pushor, PhD
Parent engagement increases student achievement and fosters positive learning outcomes. To increase parent engagement in your school, follow these simple steps to get started:
Assess:
Parent engagement checklist
Getting started:
How to make parent engagement “come alive”
Increasing involvement:
Barriers and strategies for success
Listening and Speaking strategies using local ghost stories.
This is an independent unit for the novel Ghost of Spirit Bear that students have 5 weeks to complete. They read the novel and answer questions as well as complete a minimum of 4 assignments in order to cover 4 outcomes. This unit can also be changed to incorporate a different novel.
In this fun engineering activity, you are challenged to build a gingerbread house that meets specific design requirements.
Holiday fun!
Cross curricular unit plan.
Students write and record their own essays for a class blog by first completing a series of activities designed to get them thinking and writing about their experiences.
These guides are designed by the Global Digital
Citizen Foundation to help you gain a better
understanding of the 21st Century Fluencies and
how they work.
This guide contains a description of the tenets of
Global Digital Citizenship, as well as a perspective on
the skills each stage develops and why they are
important for our students?and everyone?to learn.
We hope this information will help you with the
development of the Fluencies as you work to infuse
them into your students' learning experiences.
The Only Free Global Stock Game!
Trade Stocks, Commodities, and Currencies.
A global stock game needs to support a global audience!
All of the portfolio simulation functions are available in English, French, Spanish, Hungarian, Polish, Mandarin Chinese, Greek, and Czech. More languages coming soon!
In which John asks whether globalization is a net positive for humanity. While the new global economy has created a lot of wealth, and lifted a lot of people out of poverty, it also has some effects that aren't so hot. Wealth disparity, rising divorce rates, environmental damage, and new paths for the spread of disease. So does all this outweigh the economic benefits, the innovation, and the relative peace that come with interconnected economies? As usual, the answer is not simple. In this case, we're living in the middle of the events we're discussing, so it's hard to know how it's going to turn out.
In which John Green teaches you about globalization, a subject so epic, so, um, global, it requires two videos. In this video, John follows the surprisingly complex path of t-shirt as it criss-crosses the world before coming to rest on your doorstep, and eventually in your dresser. (Unless you're one of those people who never puts their laundry away and lives out of a laundry basket. If that's the case, shame on you.) Anyway, the story of the t-shirt and its manufacture in far-flung places like China, Guatemala, and India is a microcosm of what's going on in the global economy. Globalization is a bit of a mixed bag, and there have definitely been winners and losers along the way. In this episode John will talk about some of the benefits that have come along with it. Next week, he'll get into some of the less-positive side effects of globalization.
This activity is for upper primary or middle years students, but could easily be adapted for younger students too. Students draw an African animal of their choice on watercolor paper, outline the animal with black glue, then finally paint over their project with watercolors. The final result is BEAUTIFUL!
Interactive videos combine movement with mindfulness, helping kids center themselves for learning. The modules are short, making GoNoodle ideal for kids that need a quick energy boost through exercise.
Check out the GoNoodle app too!
Get some fun movement in with some videos from GoNoodle.
GoNoodle® engages 14 million kids every month with movement and mindfulness videos created by child development experts. Available for free at school, home, and everywhere kids are!
The SECRET of my Success has students set an academic or behaviour goal and make a plan to achieve it.
This strategy engages readers to look for a specific point that “speaks” to them. “Golden Lines” are Powerful quotes that automatically provide interesting discussion material.
Why
Many student find it much easier to select something the author said than to come up with their own reactions. Therefore, Golden Lines are an easy and effective strategy for student to determine important ideas, make connections, and visualize during reading.