This is a PeBL based project where students are required to follow / research the NCAA March Madness College Basketball tournament. Each grade's assignment and tasks are based off of the Math Stats and Probability outcomes and indicators. Hands on learning and lots of fun! 

So, let me ask you the question: How often do we let students “work the problem” in our schools and classrooms?

Do we give students a chance to figure it out on their own or in a small group? Do we challenge them to solve a challenge in a fixed amount of time? Do we let them struggle and fail to the point where they have to work the problem and find a solution?

With PL - Now every student was “working their own problem” and stumbling, struggling, and fighting to find a solution of how to learn, make, create, and launch an idea out into the world.

“The Martian” is a great example of working the problem. He has to use a multitude of 21st Century Skills, along with his team, and the people back on Earth to work together to survive and get him home.

This Website allows you to directly locate and find lessons through the SK curriculum and has specific activities aligned with a number of different SK Subject Outcomes.
- Arts Education
- Career Education
- Social Studies
- Science
- Math
- Health
- Practical and Applied Arts
- Cross-Curricular Competencies
- ELA
- Communication Media

Grade 6 Specific Health Related Activities:
o Avatars and Body Image USC6.1
o Gender Stereotypes and Body Image USC6.1 USC6.2
o Image Gap USC6.1
o Introduction to Cyberbullying: Avatars and Identity USC6.1 USC6.2 USC6.5
o Kids, Alcohol and Advertising – Lesson 1: Messages About Drinking USC6.7
o Kids, Alcohol and Advertising – Lesson 2: Young Drinkers USC6.7
o Kids, Alcohol and Advertising – Lesson 3: Understanding Brands USC6.7
o Kids, Alcohol and Advertising – Lesson 4: Interpreting Media Messages USC6.7
o Media Kids USC6.2 USC6.5 USC6.7
o Media Minute Lesson 2: Media are constructions USC6.2 USC6.7
o Mirror Image USC6.2 USC6.1
o Pay for Play USC6.7
o Prejudice and Body Image USC6.1 USC6.5
o Stereotyping and Bias USC6.1 USC6.2
o Tobacco Labels USC6.7
o Understanding the Internet: Communication and Social Media USC6.7

Educational Games:
o Data Defenders
o A Day in the Life of the Jos (same as above – paid for program) USC6.1 USC6.2

Contained herein are projects for Grades 6 - 9 Math Outcomes for Stats and Probability. They are meant to use as extensions to the knowledge and skills of those outcomes and connect with real life and can be used in a Cross Curr with modifications. 

This resource is an editable PDF and Excel Spreadsheet for Grade 7 Physical Education. The resource will calculate grades as well as provide a snapshot summary for each outcome.

The following templates support the implementation of 21st century skills for character and academic skills.

There are two templates available. One template will be used for school-wide implementation, and one will be used for classroom implementation.

Take a virtual field trip of Rayner Dairy Barn in Saskatoon and then follow up with some classroom activities.Watch the video here.

Evaluating Online Resources for Credibility - information and mini game to practice checking the reliability and credibility of the website/ source.

Relevance is an annual magazine providing career and labour market information for Saskatchewan youth. Available in print and online. Discussion guide for class exploration or assessment available.

This tool will help get your students thinking about their futures. It explores a wide range of jobs to inspire students to find their dream career and work hard.

You will need to sign up to access all the materials - it's worth it!

STEM Challenges Powerpoint

Workshop Targets:

•Defining STEM/STEAM
•Benefits of STEM/STEAM
•STEM/ STEAM Format
•Assessing STEM/ STEAM
•Showcasing STEM/ STEAM ideas and resources
•Connecting to Outcomes/ Planning Time
•Feedback

This is a website full of resources for PowerPoint and projector and students to see math visually through games.

These strategies help middle school students improve their critical thinking, in turn encouraging them to take the initiative in their learning.

Do you want quick lessons that teach concepts or skills? Each 10-15 minute minilesson presents a concept and engages students in an activity. Minilessons are optimized to display on your interactive whiteboard, smart phone, or anything in between. This website offers a variety of mini lessons for Writing, 21st Century Skills, and Social Emotional Learning. They are user- friendly and free to use on the website.

Project-based learning, or PBL, challenges students to design and engage in more authentic, extended, and complex learning. But while PBL is a trusted strategy for increasing student engagement and learning, it's not easy to orchestrate. There are tons of moving pieces, and if you're doing it right, students will be engaging in a variety of interest-driven projects all with various needs and on different schedules. So how do you manage it all? Tech can be a huge help. This list gathers some useful productivity and organization tools that can help both teachers and students keep track of, finish, and assess projects. There are also a few tools designed specifically for PBL, as well as plug-and-play PBL experiences.

This is a list of Virtual Reality Expeditions that address and would incorporate Agriculture into your classroom in a fun and exciting way.

This is an excellent resource for understanding cultural burning and the importance of fire in First Nations communities.

From the website:
The resources, wise practices and lessons learned shared in the We are Fire Toolkit are based on interviews and a literature review carried out by the Muskrats to Moose Project Team on Indigenous-led fire practices and settler and state-led fire management in the Saskatchewan River Delta in Saskatchewan, Canada.

The Muskrats to Moose: Braiding Cultural Burning and Western Fire Management Project is being carried out by the following team members:

This is an excellent resource for understanding cultural burning and the importance of fire in First Nations communities.

From the website:
The resources, wise practices and lessons learned shared in the We are Fire Toolkit are based on interviews and a literature review carried out by the Muskrats to Moose Project Team on Indigenous-led fire practices and settler and state-led fire management in the Saskatchewan River Delta in Saskatchewan, Canada.

The Muskrats to Moose: Braiding Cultural Burning and Western Fire Management Project is being carried out by the following team members: