Resources for a novel study on the "The Outsiders". Resources include literature circles, rubrics and extension activities.
Students read The Outsiders in a Literature Circle setting. Students use creativity, collaboration, and critical thinking throughout the novel study to complete assignments and work with one another focusing on comprehending and responding to the novel, creative writing pieces relating to the novel, and assessing and reflecting their work and other work.
Auto Body is considered to be a "pure" course. When modules from different PAA courses are combined, a "survey' course is created.
Safetycare Videos
The following link will get you to the Safetycare video website:
http://www.safetycare.com/videos_3/usa/montie/default.html
Note: Safetycare videos must be played on a Windows Media Player. For this reason they will not work on a MAC.
Students needed to become a little bit more independent in the cooking lab in creating their own final product to present to a panel of judges. Students had a lot of fun with the “competition” aspect of it. They competed for 5 classes worth of not having to wash dishes.
The Cupcake Color Wheel activity provides a meaningful, memorable way for students to study Color Theory. Used in my Practical and Applied Arts 10- Survey class, it is part of the Interior Design module. Through this activity, students learn color terminology, mixing colors, and gain knowledge and understanding in the concepts of complementary colors, values, and chroma. If this activity is completed as part of a Food Studies class, it provides students an opportunity to gain knowledge and skills in the kitchen basics, and in the preparation of cakes and frostings.
All the students in our school have iPads and I recently had received 2 LEGO robotics kits; I wanted to find a way to mesh the two together. LEGO has a free app (for iPads only) that allows students to program their robot and connect to it via Bluetooth. The goal of this assignment is to learn about basic function of the LEGO EV3 robot. This includes the motor, color sensor and ultrasonic sensor. The main objective is to learn how to program, or "code", the robot to perform various functions using the "LEGO Mindstorms Programming App".
Students work in pairs to create venn diagrams that will show the differences and similarities between an online and an offline community. The class brainstormed examples together, creating a large list on the board. Examples include: twitter, vine, Instagram, the school volleyball team, places people work, a youth group center. Once pairs have selected their communities, they used Creatly.com to create a venn diagram that showed their ideas about how each community is unique yet has some things in common. When students completed their venn diagram, they posted it on a Small Group in Edmodo to share it with the class. Students then individually commented on each of the other pairs diagrams, telling them one thing they liked about the diagram and one thing that they think might have been done better.
"The Safety Construction Orientation Training (SCOT) program is an interactive, online-training course composed of 13 modules, each focused on a different fundamental aspect of worksite safety. SCOT is convenient, easy-to-use, easy-to-understand, and is interactive and accessible as the program is available on the web. A user can purchase and take the program via this website. The program begins with an introductory module that describes the content, purpose and important practical information necessary to help participants navigate through the training experience. The program provides the basics in construction safety and requires 100% mastery of 13 modules which take approximately three to five hours to complete." - www.scsaonline.com
-Design Studies 10
-Design Studies 20
Full Curriculum Documents available at Saskatchewan Curriculum
This webinar, presented by Barbara McKinnon from the Ministry of Education (Student Achievement and Supports), explains the Ministry's partnership with the Junior Achievement Program.
The City - Teaching Financial Literacy: This online course offers 11 modules to teach students about financial concepts in an interactive way. Lessons are fully planned for teachers. Funded by the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada.
Junior Achievement of Saskatchewan: In partnership with Junior Achievement of Saskatchewan, the Ministry of Education is working towards advancing the entrepreneurship experience in Saskatchewan schools. Entrepreneurship teachers from several schools have already committed to a new initiative which integrates the Junior Achievement Company Program into Entrepreneurship 30, thus providing students with the real-life experience of creating and operating their own business venture. The initiative puts project based inquiry at the forefront and allows students to experience business firsthan d. Barbara McKinnon, education consultant in the areas of Entrepreneurship and Financial Literacy is available to collaborate with teachers and the Junior Achievement organization bringing this program to high schools within your school division. Please contact her directly at 306.787.2334 by email at Barbara.mckinnon@gov.sk.ca for further information.
PBL Peer Assessment
PBL Planning Forms
PBL Project Essentials Checklist
PBL Project Management Kit
PBL Project Planning and Management Tools
PBL Project Planning Forms
PBL Rubric for Project Design Evaluation
PBL Sample Rubrics
PBL Science 10 CR1 Chemical Reactions
We intend to create a winter garden and landscape the garden patch on the east side of the school. The landscaping will help make the school look more inviting and create a more welcoming atmosphere that persuades people to come into our school! The following are the powerpoints and outlines we used to do this.
To give students an aid to help them track their food intake and track their exercise.
MyFitnessPal is a website ( www.myfitnesspal.com ) that helps people count their calories by entering it into an online diary, as well as keep track of their exercise. • Exercise Tracker: MyFitnessPal has more than 350 exercise stored in its database, and it shows how much each person burns during each activity, based on their specific height, weight, and gender. It includes most cardio and strength training workouts, as well as yoga and Pilates. • The app’s calorie counter is basically an online diary of each MyFitnessPal member’s intake. The counter allows members to set daily goals, and the app can add multiple foods at once. It also automatically stores food and meals that members eat often, which makes them easy to find when they eat them again and need to log them. • MyFitnessPal is not a one-size-fits-all app. Personal diet profiles can be changed to fit a person’s specific needs, whether they are on a strict diet or have certain recommendations from their doctor or dietitian. The program calculates caloric need based on height, weight, gender, and lifestyle.
LessonIntroduction
-students will be handed out a review sheet on measuring angles, perpendicular lines, parallel lines and angle bisectors. (10 mins)
Body
-Students will be instructed to use popsicle sticks and marshmallows to construct a building. They are to ensure that some walls will be perpendicular to each other as well as parallel along with the roof. An expectation is that the building will be symmetrical and all angles on each side will be equal to the other side. (30 mins)
Science Background:
• The covered flames go out because the trapped air is used up
• The fire warms the trapped air causing it to expand and be pushed out of the jar
• When the fire goes out the air cools which causes the trapped air to contract creating a partial vacuum in the jar
• The jar and the container are forced together allowing you to lift the whole system.
Materials: plasticine, plastic container with a smooth bottom, birthday candles, water, matches, jar
Patient Problem Solving is a method of solving problems that you don't
already know how to solve. You are required to ask questions in order to
even start solving the problem. Sometimes those questions are asked of the
teacher, sometimes other students, and sometimes Google. For example,
students are asked to use a ticker tape timer to calculate their speed. First of
all students (and maybe you as the teacher) need to figure out what a ticker
tape timer does. There are a variety of ways to solve these problems, and
creativity will help them get to an answer.
Early in the year, have the students fill in the questionnaire and begin to think of activities they would enjoy participating in. This will help the teacher make decisions regarding class activities and individual time for students. Spend some time in a lab allowing students to find activities that will work on areas identified in their FITT plan (for example, if they want to improve their flexibility on the sit and reach by 10 cm, have them research exercises that increase flexibility). Students will add these exercises to their portfolio. Allow students time to work on their FITT plans during designated times throughout the year. Students can track results through FItstats fitness tests performed 5 times per year.
Fitness Assessment Booklet
Summary
Personal portfolios will allow the students to use creativity to choose and show and share their strengths and personal portfolio.
Personal Portfolios
The object of the portfolio is to showcase yourself and your strengths as well as accomplishments. The portfolio should give the reader a clear overview of who you are as a person, your strengths, and why you should be chosen for a particular job, school, or whatever applying for.
I piloted the Roadways tier 3 reading intervention program. I followed the program with fidelity; however, I personalized it for the students that I worked with. The portion that I found needed to be more personalized was the teacher reading portion. I used the props that were recommended in the Reciprocal reading guide. They worked well to introduce the concepts to my students, but after a while they focused so much on the props that they had a difficult time focusing on the task at hand. I felt hat other strategies needed to be added. Everyday we still focus on the Fab Four (Summarize, Clarify, Question and Predict), but everyday I add in another activity focusing on one of the Fab Four Strategies.