Want to communicate in the 21st century? You will need to go beyond email with Chat, Skype, Blog, Post and more.
Learn how to share with others by starting your own blog.
This lesson helps define imagination and creativity and explain how it helps us learn and about ourselves and the world. Caine created a massive cardboard arcade and is the inspiration behind this lesson.
Career Student Interest Survey
Give a customer the correct amount of cash back in all "big bills."
These are example rubrics for measuring growth in CHARACTER. Rubrics are provided for K-5, 6-9 and 10-12.
Sun West Character High School 10-12 Guidebook - please use the table of contents to navigate this guidebook. Also, we invite you to share resources you think would be suitable for this guidebook with any of the author's of this guidebook.
Sun West Character Middle Years Grade 6-9 Guidebook - please use the table of contents to navigate this guidebook. Also, we invite you to share resources you think would be suitable for this guidebook with any of the author's of this guidebook.
Each lesson plan relates to Character.org's 11 Principles of Effective Character Education.
Character Playbook is an innovative digital course that uses engaging strategies to educate students about cultivating and maintaining healthy relationships during their critical middle school years. Comprised of six lessons that cover key concepts around positive character development, social-emotional learning (SEL), and building healthy relationships, Character Playbook allows students to engage with real-world scenarios, including examples of bystander intervention, resolving conflicts, effective communication, and positive relationships.
This Course Covers
Analyzing Influences
Understanding & Managing Emotions
Communicating Effectively
Resolving Conflicts
Stepping In
Making Decisions
Socratic seminars are a democratic, student-centered, approach to class discussions. They can be used at any grade level with any subject area. In a Socratic Seminar, members meet in a circle and share their insights. Participants do not raise their hands or call on names. Because there’s no discussion leader, each member can comment or ask follow-up questions to one another. This approach can be empowering for participants because they own the conversation. Unlike a typical class discussion, the conversation moves fluidly back and forth rather than having to go through the teacher.
This article outlines several approaches to conducting a Socratic Seminar:
- The Giant Circle Approach
- The “Fish Bowl” Approach
- The Round Table Approach
- The Scattered Approach
- Multiple Seminars
- Online/Offline Seminars
The author also provides a sample of how to run a Socratic Seminar and tips for ensuring that all students can participate.
Play Pac Man (or other games) to review 21st century skills. This an example of a student made game!
To make more games, just simply click "Create a new game" on the bottom of the screen to create your own.
This site has an amazing variety of tools that students can use to share their learning.
Let your students have voice and choice!
Some of the best choices on this site include
FAKEBOOK - kids can make a mock facebook page ONLINE for a historical figure, or a character in a novel. Etc.
PAC MAN & ARCADE GAMES -transform your quiz into a trivia Pac Man game. The kids have to answer questions to play and if they die they must answer more questions to continue. The kids can make their own trivia games as well. This could be a great final product and you could play it on the smartboard as a class to evaluate it.
FAKE NEWS Headlines - this would be great for an important event in a novel, or current events, or historical info!
QR CODE TREASURE HUNT – no Internet needed. Kids can create these; or you could!
BURGER ESSAY PLANNER -students can plan and organized essays with the provided structure!
Other Options include: timers, turn your text into a Star Wars theme, 3D gallery, fake Twitter, random name picker, etc!
Code to Learn offers free resources to Canadian students and teachers to help them learn coding, robotics, computational thinking, and 21st century skills.
The Hour of Code started as a one-hour introduction to computer science, designed to demystify "code", to show that anybody can learn the basics, and to broaden participation in the field of computer science. It has since become a worldwide effort to celebrate computer science, starting with 1-hour coding activities but expanding to all sorts of community efforts. Check out the tutorials and activities. This grassroots campaign is supported by over 400 partners and 200,000 educators worldwide.
Students can code for just an hour, or complete full courses.
The courses are in 45 different languages.
There are even coding activities that can be down without computers called "unplugged".
These are example rubrics for measuring growth in COLLABORATION. Rubrics are provided for K-5, 6-9 and 10-12.
Sun West Collaboration High School Grade 10-12 Guidebook- please use the table of contents to navigate the guidebook. Also, we invite you to share resources you think would be suitable for this guidebook with any of the author's of this guidebook.
Sun West Collaboration Middle Years Grade 6-9 Guidebook- please use the table of contents to navigate the guidebook. Also, we invite you to share resources you think would be suitable for this guidebook with any of the author's of this guidebook.
These are example rubrics for measuring growth in COMMUNICATION. Rubrics are provided for K-5, 6-9 and 10-12.
Sun West Communication High School Grade 10-12 Guidebook- please use the table of contents to navigate the guidebook. Also, we invite you to share resources you think would be suitable for this guidebook with any of the author's of this guidebook.