Illuminations works to serve you by increasing access to quality standards-based resources for teaching and learning mathematics, including interactive tools for students and instructional support for teachers.

The website includes:
- Lesson plans
- Online math strategy games against a computer or other players across the world
- Activities
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ImTranslator is a great site for translations and comparisons at the same time. You can get a simple translation, back translation, and comparison between PROMT, Google, and Microsoft translators all at a same place. The site offers tons of languages as it links to other popular translation services like Google too.

As for extras, there are a bunch of helpful tools like the Back Translation tool which automatically translates the target text back to the original—this helps you compare for accuracy.

Take advantage of the automatic language detection, dictionary, spelling, and decoder feature with checkmarks. Or use the buttons to copy, paste, use text-to-speech, or share the translation via email. ImTranslator also provides special accent characters that include currency, math, and company symbols.

Use imagination and creativity to create pictures out of abstract squiggles and marks.

Indigenous people have long passed on knowledge from generation to generation through oral traditions, including storytelling. Storytelling teaches history, values, beliefs and ways of life.

Enjoy this series of oral stories told by Elder Hazel, where you'll hear all kinds of fascinating stories.

Students will create an infographic to share knowledge and data about an issue or science topic they are studying.

What Is It?

INNER EXPLORER PRESENTS A MINDFULNESS APP FOR FAMILIES - Helping Parents Raise Mindful kids.

Inner Explorer is a free mindfulness app (for Apple and Android) from Inner Explorer. Hundreds of school districts use Inner Explorer's mindfulness program to help educators and students become socially-emotionally present and handle situations with calmness and resilience.

Inner Explorer @ Home is specifically designed for parents and caregivers to use with their children and features daily guided mindfulness practices for all age-groups.

THE BENEFITS AND 5 W's OF MINDFULNESS
1. What is Mindfulness?
Mindfulness means paying attention to what’s happening right now with curiosity and kindness and without judgment.
2. Why Mindfulness?
Mindfulness is popular because it is very effective for reducing stress and for improving focus which helps learning.
3. When?
One can practice mindfulness any time. However, practicing mindfulness in the morning often sets the tone for a calm and lovely day.
4. Who?
Inner Explorer was designed for Pre K – 12th grade students. However, many adults utilize the program on a daily basis. Practicing as a family magnifies the benefits and creates calm and connection.
5. Where?
Practicing in as quiet a place as possible is always a good idea to minimize distractions.

Pobble365 helps to keep students writing. Every day, Pobble365 provides a weird, wonderful, and/or thought provoking image to spark ideas for discussions and writing. It is free and along with a different idea-inspiring image every day, Pobble365 provides a story starter, discussion questions, as well as sentence challenges and “sick sentences” to build language skills. If students don’t have online access, images and writing supports can be printed and photocopied.

The activities include a prompt, sentences stems, vocabulary bank, questions, and challenges to help you scaffold your lesson.

You will need to sign up and make an account to access the resources, but it is free to do so and each day includes a free prompt. You can also create your own!

Get your students writing every single day!

What Is It?
This checklist from Respectful Ways contains 14 activities for families to foster creativity, prompt discussion, expand children's imaginations, and cultivate social-emotional growth. Respectful Ways created these fun, interactive activities to guide family members through the process of recognizing and navigating negative feelings, understanding the origins of emotions, and help everyone cope with stress.

Interland is an engaging and fun online site that makes digital citizenship and safety lessons into a game. There are four fun games to choose from.

You can take a tour of 18 different scenes from the International Space Station with this Google Earth tour. Visit the Columbus Research Laboratory, SpaceX Dragon Docking Vehicle and more!

"The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center features works of art dating from the eighth through the twenty-first century, showcased against a backdrop of dramatic architecture, tranquil gardens, and breathtaking views of Los Angeles. The collection includes European paintings, drawings, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, decorative arts, and European, Asian..."

Take a virtual tour of the J. Paul Getty Museum from the comfort of your classroom or living room!

Dancing is one of the easiest ways to get your body moving … and grooving. As kids follow the moves on this YouTube-based dance challenge, they won’t even realize the’’re getting in a great cardio workout. Plus Just Dance features all their fave musical artists.

This TikTok videos share dozens of daily coaching and PE ideas that are:
😀 FUN
🏆 COMPETITIVE
🏃 ENGAGING
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"The best internet safety lessons recognize the complexity of these topics and help students build the critical-thinking skills and habits of mind to navigate the dilemmas they encounter."

This site links in the best lessons for internet safety from Common Sense Media for K-12.

October is agriculture month and a time to highlight our connection to food and the role that agriculture plays in the lives of Saskatchewan people and our students! This year’s theme is #MealsFromtheFarm.If you are interested in incorporating food or agriculture into your lessons this month, have your students enjoy some fun and learning with these "Meals From The Farm" Kahoots from Farm and Food Care Saskatchewan!  

This KAPA (Kids and Parents Active) YouTube video will get kids and their families active and enjoying the time together in fitness.

Kahoot! is a game-based platform that makes learning awesome for millions of people all over the world. Sign up to create and play fun quiz games!

Having students make quizzes on Kahoot! is a great way for them to extend their learning and benefit the entire class!

Kahoot! is an excellent formative assessment tool. You can give feedback to your students after each question as you play. Make learning a game show...your students will never have so much fun being assessed.

This site offers a collection of resources to help support learning while families are home due to the COVID-19 pandemic and suspension of in-class instruction. It will be updated as more resources are identified and there is new information to share.
Sections include: (for Early Learning and Primary Years through to Adult Learning)
- Weekly Home Learning Videos
- Activities
- Learning from Home
- Everyday Learning Activities (ideas for promoting learning in many subject areas and with many activities)
- Resources (including educational programming from museums, science centers, zoos, artists, storytellers and others on a wide variety of topics, activities, games, videos, books and reading, educational collections, hands-on activities, languages, math, outdoor education, science, natural and human history, special education, French resources, and much more)
- Keeping Healthy

This free online typing tutorial helps students practice touch typing skills while improving speed and accuracy. Keybr provides an advanced learning experience as it uses statistics and algorithms to generate lessons based on each student’s skill level.