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.
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.
Students learn about the mechanics of a lunar eclipse.
Students will use the Danjon Scale of Lunar Eclipse Brightness to assign an “L” value at three points during an eclipse. After the eclipse, students compare and justify their evaluations of the eclipse.
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!
This lesson from NASA explains how the Earth's tilt causes the seasons. There are also links to related resources on the webpage.
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.
Independant writing assignments for grades 1 through 9 including descriptive, expository, narrative paragraphs; poetry; scripts, letters, biographies, rebus stories, story from a picture, and reports.
In 2022, two collaborative groups of Australian educators formed to create Syntax & Punctuation and Morphology resources.
These resources are available for free to promote a culture of sharing and collaboration amongst schools.
The lessons can be edited and adapted to reflect the topics & curriculum content taught in your classroom.
You must sign up for an account to access the resources.
*These activities also align with The Writing Revolution!
The Syntax Project & The Morphology Project; Lessons; PD & More
Zearn is the 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational organization behind Zearn Math, the top-rated math learning platform used by 1 in 4 elementary-school students and by more than 1 million middle-school students nationwide. Everything we do is driven by the belief that every kid is a math kid.
Free for teachers and students. Teachers will need to sign up for an account.
e-Learning For Kids is a great site with some wonderful interactive learning games that are engaging and fun.
Click - Kids Start Here to get students directed to the activities.
You can use the icons/tabs across the top of the page to filter the activities by subject and grade!
This site is for K-6.
Write interactive stories, choose your own adventure stories, etc.
This is a great tool to boost writing engagement.
