Sun West 7C & SECRET Guidebooks for Kindergarten to Grade 5 including: character, collaboration and communication.

Sun West 7C and SECRET Guidebooks for High School including: character, collaboration, communication and self-management.

Sun West 7 Cs 21st Century Skills Poster
Creativity
Critical Thinking
Collaboration
Communication
Character
Citizenship
Computer & Digital Technologies

Sun West Design Thinking Workshop PowerPoint Presentation Collection.
The following is a collection of resources from Noble Wainewright from the University of Saskatchewan.

Resource booklets are included for K-4 and 5-12. This excellent resource has everything you should need to get started on learner profiles in one place!

A poster that shows the connections and relationships between the 7 Cs and SECRET skills to teach 21st Century Skills at Sun West.

TELUS Wise helps Canadians stay safe in a digital world.

TELUS Wise® is a free digital literacy education program that offers informative workshops and resources to help Canadians of all ages have a positive experience as digital citizens.

TELUS Wise workshops and resources cover topics including protecting your online security, privacy, and reputation, rising above cyberbullying, and using technology responsibly.

This site offers a section called "TELUS Wise schools and teachers" that will help you in preparing your students for our digital world and future-proof today's youth by teaching important digital literacy and safety skills.

At the 2008 Serious Play conference, designer Tim Brown talks about the powerful relationship between creative thinking and play -- with many examples you can try at home (and one that maybe you shouldn't). Tim Brown is the CEO of the "innovation and design" firm IDEO--taking an approach to design that digs deeper than the surface

This app provides focused lessons designed to boost typing speed and accuracy very quickly. Students can see a heat map of where their fingers are hitting the keyboard to better understand where they can make improvements. The advanced levels will take them through tough tapping patterns, symbols, numbers, and complicated sentences.

You will find everything you need here to use STEM challenges to introduce and teach your students 21st Century Skills.

Before each activity look at the "What Skills Do I Need?" attachment and discuss what needs to be done. Then show them the specific challenge - plan and do it! After have the kids complete the related reflection. All files below.

Before every challenge - What Skills Do I Need?
Challenge 1 & Self-Management Reflection
Challenge 2 & Effective Participation Reflection (also includes self-management)
Challenge 3 & Creativity Reflection (includes both skills above as well)
Challenge 4 & Enquiry Reflection (includes other 3 skills above as well)
Challenge 5 & Reflection Reflection (includes other 4 skills above)
Challenge 6 & Team Work Reflection (includes all other skills)
21st Century Skills reflection includes all skills
All documents are word files (except one) so you can edit them - if you have a problem with fonts etc, let me know and I can send you the pdf versions. Melissa.Lander@sunwestsd.ca

Kodu lets students create games on Windows PCs via a simple visual programming language. Kodu can be used to teach creativity, problem solving, storytelling, as well as programming. Anyone can use Kodu to make a game, young children as well as adults with no design or programming skills. No previous experience is required!
You will find videos, lessons, and many other resources to get started.
The software is free!