This website hosts a variety of resources related to the science of reading.

This interactive Atlas focuses on historical written evidence of Inuit presence in most of the Canadian Arctic. It contains a selection of material obtained from hundreds of published and unpublished documents produced by explorers, ethnographers and other visitors who were in contact with Inuit during the early contact period or shortly before Inuit moved to permanent settlements. A very significant proportion of those trails and place names are still used today. The Atlas is a database, and the sources can be found through searches, or clicking on the features on the map. Each document has been given a geographic reference (which in some cases, it occupies the whole Canadian Arctic). Whenever possible Inuit place names and trails encountered in the documents were digitized separately.

Panic

Many people experience some mild sensations when they feel anxious about something, but a panic attack is much more intense than usual. A panic attack can be very frightening and you may feel a strong desire to escape the situation or to seek emergency assistance.
Panic disorder is used to describe the condition where panic attacks seem to happen unexpectedly rather than always in predictable situations. Importantly, someone with panic disorder has a persistent fear of having another attack or worries about the consequences of the attack. Many people change their behaviour to try to prevent panic attacks. Some people are affected so much that they try to avoid any place where it might be difficult to get help or to escape from. When this avoidance is severe it is called agoraphobia.

**Site includes worksheets, workbook and information sheets available for download.

Paper by WeTransfer is a digital sketchbook full of powerful tools to create beautiful illustrations. Begin with a brief tutorial and get started drawing. There are no buttons, and the emphasis on touch features makes for an intuitive design. Sketches are stored in sketchbooks that sit neatly on a shelf. Once your book is full, you can start a new one. Share your creations via Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter, or email, or save them to your camera roll. Paper is completely free, including the additional tools (mixer, color, write, outline, and sketch), which formerly were in-app purchases. Creating can be done with your finger, but you can also purchase Paper's aptly named stylus, Pencil.

Click "Start Writing Now" to let the games begin.

Students can create paragraphs right on the site using the writing prompts provided. They are then guided through: Introduction | Topic | Pre-Writing | Writing-Topic Sentence | More Pre-Writing | Writing--Body | Organizing | Writing--Conclusion | Revising--Overview: Style, Sentence Structure, Grammar, Proofreading | Publishing

There are also a ton of great writing prompts available. This is a great low pressure way to get kids writing!

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)

Parents matter in education. They matter as vital partners who contribute much to the work of our educators, schools, and communities. They matter as parent leaders, parent mentors, and models of commitment to excellent in education, and they matter everyday as they influence and support their children’s academic
achievement. (From the included document)

Top Five Reasons to Engage Parents
1. Decades of research show when parents are involved students have:
- Higher grades, test scores, and graduation rates
- Better school attendance
- Increased motivation, better self-esteem
- Lower rates of suspension
- Decreased use of drugs and alcohol
- Fewer instances of violent behavior
National Parent Teacher Association

2. Family participation in education is twice as predictive of students’ academic success as family socioeconomic status. Some of the more intensive programs had effects that were 10 times greater than other factors. Walberg (1984) in his review of 29 studies of school–parent programs.

3. School Benefits:
- Improves teacher morale
- Higher ratings of teachers by parents
- More support from families
- Higher student achievement
- Better reputations in the community
A New Generation of Evidence: The Family is Critical to Student Achievement, edited by Anne T. Henderson and Nancy Berla, Center for Law and Education, Washington, D.C., 1994 (third printing, 1996)

4. Parent involvement leads to feelings of ownership, resulting in increased support of schools. Davies, Don. (1988). Low Income Parents and the Schools: A Research Report and a Plan for Action. Equity and Choice 4,3 (Spring): 51-57. EJ 374 512.

5. Parents express a genuine and deep-seated desire to help their children succeed academically, regardless of differences in socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity, and cultural background. Mapp (1999)

Who should use this document?
Schools interested in improving student achievement.

What is the purpose of this document?
To help you understand if you are moving toward best practice in parent engagement.
Specifically this tool is designed to help your school begin a conversation about
environment and how welcome people feel in your building. This initial conversation will
start you on your way to continued conversations about honoring and connecting with
parents in ways which support student achievement.

The following handout can be given to parents to support their use of The Sun West Resource Bank.

Including hot tips, cool ideas and practical suggestions for supporting all parents to be effectively involved in their children’s education.

The following is an example from 2018-2019 of what parents can do at home to support phonological awareness with their child at home.
Each month has approximately 10 or more very short activities you can do with your child, and it includes the answers you should expect from your child.

There are many partners who play significant roles in educating children. Parents are the first teacher of their child, and theirs is a crucial role in the education of their children.
Conferences are the formal framework that parents and teachers can use to learn together how to provide the best possible support system for the child’s learning.
While many schools still use the standard fifteen minute conference format in which a teacher will see parents individually over the course of an afternoon or evening, in recent years, the traditional meeting has been challenged by two alternative conference formats: the three way conference and the student led conference.

If parents did these 5 simple things they would greatly improve their child's readiness for school and reading. These suggestions come from a former Reading Recovery Teacher and a mother of a very early reader.

These cue cards include strategies on how to support teens with time management, organization, screen time, peer pressure, homework, and risky behaviour.

Parents Canada is a Canadian website aimed at parenting children at all ages and stages of life.

This is a resource that shows how parliament in Canada works. It outlines the different levels of government responsibility.

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