It is no surprise that there is an increase in global anxiety and stress for many people because we are dealing with a worldwide pandemic. This website allows parents to practice, model, and teach their children about the importance of calm and self-care.

A Guide for Parents and Families of Aboriginal Students

This resource covers the following topics:
How Can My Involvement Benefit My Child?
How Can I Help My Child’s Learning?
Ideas for Parents and Families of Students in Early Years
Ideas for Parents and Families of Students in Middle School Years
Ideas for Parents and Families of Students in High School
School Partnerships in My Child’s Learning
What Questions Can I Ask About My Child’s Learning?
What Should I Do If An Issue Arises?
Other Sources of Help and Information

This website allows students to uoload writing they have done. The site then reviews the writing and gives tips to improve it.

Today we’re going to talk about ethical data collection. From the Tuskegee syphilis experiments and Henrietta Lacks’ HeLa cells to the horrifying experiments performed at Nazi concentration camps, many strides have been made from Institutional Review Boards (or IRBs) to the Nuremberg Code to guarantee voluntariness, informed consent, and beneficence in modern statistical gathering. But as we’ll discuss, with the complexities of research in the digital age many new ethical questions arise.

Hank and his brother John discuss heredity via the gross example of relative ear wax moistness.

This is part of the Heritage Saskatchewan Heritage Fairs initiative. “The Heritage Fairs program is an opportunity for students in grades 4-8 all over Saskatchewan to research, present, and explore Living Heritage topics of their choice.” https://heritagesask.ca/ We had local judges assess the projects. 3 Went on to the Regional fair and 1 is going on to the Provincial Fair.
Connection to critical thinking: Historical Thinking is a competency which is designed around 6 concepts that “help students explore the forest of historical data.” Ken Osborne. Better put, it is a way to critically think about and engage in history rather than have students simply address history at the knowledge and comprehension level of thinking. This is all based on the book The Big Six Historical Thinking Concepts by Peter Sexias and Tom Morton.

In Social Studies 8, students worked over a 6-week period to create Heritage Fair projects on a topic of their choice connected to Canadian history. Throughout the process, I taught a series of mini-lessons that covered the Big Six Historical Thinking Concepts, as well as research methods and techniques. The flexibility of the project allowed students to cover a wide variety of topics within the Social Studies 8 curriculum.

This artifact encompasses creativity, collaboration, and critical thinking as it
presents the process of creating heritage fair projects with grades 4 and 5 students.
The heritage fair project was completed through a co-teaching and focused on
student-centered learning and project-based learning.

The new website for the Heritage Fairs (& High School Heritage Challenge) is now live and ready to accept project submissions for the Virtual Heritage Fair (grades 4-8) and the High School Heritage Challenge (grades 9-12)!

The Heritage Fair program provides the opportunity for students and their families, teachers and communities to learn about diverse Living Heritage projects.

There is still lots of time to prepare and submit a project to these contests, as the deadline is Monday, April 24. The online contests are open to all students in Saskatchewan.

Links to register and submit projects are on the homepage, as well as available in the dropdown menus for each respective contest.

Be sure to check out the Heritage Fairs toolkit that will give you topic inspiration, a list of popular research sources, and a detailed breakdown on how to create your presentation and share your findings. The toolkit is available in both English and French.

Le nouveau site web des Fêtes du patrimoine (et du Défi du patrimoine au secondaire) est maintenant en ligne et prêt à accepter les soumissions de projets pour la Fête du patrimoine virtuelle (niveaux 4 à 8) et le Défi du patrimoine au secondaire (niveaux 9 à 12) !

Le programme des Fêtes du patrimoine offre l'occasion aux élèves et à leurs familles, aux enseignants et aux communautés d'en apprendre davantage sur divers projets de patrimoine vivant.

Il reste encore beaucoup de temps pour préparer et soumettre un projet à ces concours, car la date limite est le lundi 24 avril. Les concours en ligne sont ouverts à tous les élèves en Saskatchewan.

Les liens pour s'inscrire et soumettre des projets se trouvent sur la page d'accueil, ainsi que dans les menus déroulants de chaque concours respectif.

Assurez-vous de consulter la trousse des Fêtes du patrimoine qui vous fournira de l'inspiration pour votre sujet, une liste de sources de recherche populaires et une description détaillée sur la création de votre présentation et le partage de vos résultats. La trousse est disponible en anglais et en français.

This site offers a database of lessons and units searchable by content and cultural standards, cultural region and grade level.

The following is a list of creative writing ideas and prompts for high school students.

This website features all of the great things Highlights Kids has to offer: activities, jokes, games, opportunities to explore fascinating things, view podcast and playlists, and participate in "Hidden Pictures" adventures. Lots of fun for kids to explore!

Students will work in groups to visually analyze a work of art and then research what was happening in the time period when the work was made. Students will then discuss what impact their research had on their original perceptions. Students will finally be given background information about the work of art and will discuss how their ideas are different or similar to what they read.

Options are provided for I DO, WE DO and YOU DO for this very well-planned Grade 7/8 project.

Students will view and react to the video/readings "GENERATION ONE: LIVING IN TWO WORLDS".

The historical thinking concepts developed and promoted by the Historical Thinking Project have been incorporated into curricula, classroom resources, and professional development tools. They include:

Provincial Historical Thinking Projects - Application process and criteria.

Blog Archive - Read about the experiences and reflections of four young teachers on the challenges and rewards of working with the historical thinking concepts.

Books - Order books that explore more deeply the teaching with the six historical thinking concepts.

Historical Thinking Posters – A set of six 12 x 17" posters illustrating the Historical Thinking Concepts is available in English and in French.

Demonstrations and Discussions - PD resources to assist in incorporating historical thinking into the classroom.

Lessons - We are currently in the process of transferring lessons from the old site. These are not yet available.

Other Classroom Materials - Teacher’s resource guides, historical thinking lessons developed by other organizations (usually in collaboration with us), and links to websites that contain historical thinking lessons.

Research - A sampling of research related to historical thinking and the curriculum.

Workshops - Contact these experienced workshop providers directly for assistance in professional development.

Use of Materials/Copyright

We encourage the use of resources, lessons, and information from our site, but we ask that you credit the Historical Thinking Project for the ideas and materials, by listing our name and our website URL (www.historicalthinking.ca). Fair use of resources does NOT include posting of HTP power points, videos, or other resources on other sites. Use a link to www.historicalthinking.ca instead.

We want historical thinking incorporated into curriculum, classrooms, and educational resources as widely as possible. When you reference the Historical Thinking Project (www.historicalthinking.ca) you are helping us to achieve this goal.

This PBL leads students to study and analyze people and events connected with "English Civil War and Glorious Revolution". The PBL includes disclosures for the students to consider and assessments (formative and summative). A PowerPoint of pictures of the historically important people is attached.

In the 21CC project the students will put together a trunk full of artifacts or ‘keepsakes’ from the perspective anyone who would have lived through the 1920s and 30s. The truck has to demonstrate the change the occurred over that 20 year span. The artifacts must be tangible (not only a picture of an artifact but a picture could be an artifact); could be original or replica (made by them). It follows the 6 phases of creativity with a student project guide and an artifact presentation rubric.

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge Objectives (K) - The student will:

1. Know that all nations must determine how to use their available human and material resources and that determination will involve choices among perceived/real demands on those resources.
2. Know that scarcity is the relationship that occurs because the unlimited wants exceeds the limited resources available to meet those wants.
3. Know that major events/situations such as wars will affect the resources a nation has available and will influence how those resources are used.
4. Know that distinct populations will seek to have control over the decision making process which affect their lives.
5. Know that groups seeking to fulfill their agendas have a number of alternative methods to achieve those agendas including the use of violent and nonviolent tactics.
6. Know that nations will sometimes consider certain geographic regions, including other nations, as being strategic importance to their interests and will seek to have a preponderance of influence over that region.
7. Know that every society has to establish some fundamental criteria that can be used to justify the allocation of supreme power within that society to certain individual or groups.