A list of web sites that support PeBL and personalized learning in the classroom.
Who hasn't struggled with technology at one point another?!
This video has some great suggestions for troubleshooting fixing your technology when it's not working for you!
Remember - your last step after you've tried all of these things is to send a helpdesk ticket in!
Multiple health topics available as text or in audio format. Written for teens to understand.
The following are templates for Pre-K to Grade 9 year at a glance plans for outcomes. This template with show which outcomes you are focussed on, but it is not meant to be all that you are teaching. For mastery, certain outcomes will need to be revisited throughout the year. This is a flexible guideline for what will be covered each month.
What can students do to make learning really stick?
Cognitive science tells us it's NOT to re-read our notes or textbook.
Instead, practice "retrieval" -- recalling what we've learned out of our brains, not our books.
This post outlines 10 simple tips and strategies you can use in class to make learning long-term, including:
1. Brain dumps
2. Two things
3. Retrieve taking (instead of note taking)
4. Student-produced quizzes
5. Guided conversation
6. Now, then, and way back
7. Self testing
8. Recall information visually
9. Retrieval mapping
10. White board exit ticket
1. What do you think the term cyber-bullying means?
2. What are some ways that kids can be cyber-bullied?
3. Has anyone ever sent you a mean email, text or instant message (IM)?
4. Have you ever sent someone else a text, email or IM that was mean?
5. What can you do if you are a victim of cyber-bullying?
Test Anxiety PDF resource. Compiled from several resources. A 'how to deal' guide for students, teachers, and parents.
Testing assumptions page from Lee-Ann
A youthful poster for your classroom door to indicate that there is testing going on.
for development of OA
Do you want to foster a good classroom atmosphere and have the students learn about each other in a fun way?
Get students to fill in the template about themselves and and then guess the facts about the others in the class. They identify their favorite color, food, animal and subject. Background audio, animation and more fun stuff can be added.
Create a free Genially account (sign in through your Google account) to access this great resource.
A suite of resources, including videos, a teachers guide and lessons plans developed by the Canadian Civil Liberties Association to engage young people in discussions about the rights and responsibilities of citizens.
That’s Not Fair! is a series developed by the Canadian Civil Liberties Education Trust to invite kids, ages 7 to 11, to think critically about what it means to live in a democracy.
MediaSmarts and TELUS Wise have created a series of four short videos and accompanying resources called There’s No Excuse to help start the conversation around sexting and healthy relationships, and help youth understand that forwarding a sext can do a lot of harm.
Included:
*Videos
*Lesson
*Discussion
*Parent guide
This lesson focuses on artworks that depict things people use for a meal. Students will build vocabulary and enhance language arts skills while learning about still life in a painting. Activities emphasize prepositions of location -- through discussions about objects depicted in the featured work of art.
This lesson focuses on an artwork that depicts things people use in a room for both functional and decorative reasons. Students will build vocabulary and enhance language arts skills while learning about decorative arts. Activities emphasize using different action verbs with nouns -- through discussions about how people use objects depicted in the featured work of art.
This lesson focuses on artworks that depict things people wear. Students will build vocabulary and enhance language arts skills while learning about different media (painting and photography). Activities emphasize descriptions using adjectives -- through discussions about the clothing people are wearing in the featured works of art.
This amazing toolbox organizes Thinking Routines into categories.
When you open a routine, go to the section for Resource Links to access an explanation/lesson on how to use this tool.
Tools or strategies are divided into these categories (a few examples are listed but there are many more):
*Core thinking routines (E.g., See, think, wonder, What makes you say that?)
*Digging Deeper Into Ideas (E.g., Outside in, Layers, Fact or fiction?)
*Introducing and exploring ideas (Lenses, Step in - step out - step back)
*Objects and systems (Creative hunt, Parts-people-interactions)
*Perspective taking (Options explosion, True for who?)
*Perspectives, controversies and Dilemmas (Tug for truth, Sticking points, 4Cs)
*Possibilities and analogies (3-2-1 bridge, Creative quesitons)
*Synthesizing and Organizing Ideas (+1 Routine, Take note, Headlines)
*With Art or Objects (Creative comparisons, Looking: 10x2, Thinking with images)
This is a phenomenal website full of super useful information for students and teachers!
There are articles and resources for:
Science, Technology & Math
Humanities
Art, Music, Recreation
Anything and everything is available here from how to understand percentile scores - to writing a solid argumentative essay - to grade 2 writing prompts.
Click the menu in the top left corner to sort resources for students & parents, educators or adult learners!
For young brains to retain information, they need to apply it. Information learned by rote memorization will not enter the sturdy long-term neural networks in the pre-frontal cortex (PFC) unless students have the opportunity to actively recognize relationships to their prior knowledge and/or apply new learning to new situations.
Here are some teaching strategies to help build executive function in your students.
These suggested scopes and sequences of microtutorials will guide you to learn all about how to best leverage the Resource Bank based on your needs and available time.You can choose from:Expert (95 minutes)The Highlights (21-60 minutes)Get Started (15-30 minutes)