This website showcases a variety of art work created by Sun West Students. Their reflections and insights are also shown. All Art Teachers are welcomed to submit their students work. Contact the creators listed below.
Submitted by Aaron Moore, Eli Dingle and Carrie Gooselin

Phase 1: Reflecting
Phase 2: Planning
Phase 3: Retrieving
Phase 4: Processing
Phase 5: Creating
Phase 6: Sharing
Phase 7: Evaluating

The purpose of my 21st Century Learning Goal is for students to be able to showcase their learning of curricular knowledge through creating explanatory videos. I have used this type of assessment technique primarily in the grade 7 math and science classroom. Through the creation of their videos, students will improve their oral explanation techniques as well as their use of manipulative and other visual aids. Students are able to showcase their creativity through these videos in ways they wouldn’t otherwise be able to through more traditional pen and paper or electronic document methods. They are able to explain oral or textually, and are also able to demonstrate their knowledge through the use of creative manipulative to demonstrate ideas and concept.

There is a paid and a free version of this tool. Teachers can sign up for free.

There are several options of pre-made lessons on this site (some are free and some cost money.) But you can also make your OWN. You can use existing PowerPoints to make presentations or lessons and add in video, quizzes, surveys, polls, etc. Kids can even draw their answers to questions.

"Nearpod is an award-winning student engagement platform with ready-to-run interactive lessons for K-12 teachers. Explore interactive lessons and interactive activities."

This is a self reflection document to be used at any point during the year with your students - but used specfically during report card time or three-way conferences. It provides students in kid-friendly language a way of understanding the FASA conditions and how they are able to apply these to their own habits at school. It is a great tool to use and assess during parent, student, teacher conferences. Co-created by Kira Toews and Brenna Siroski

This resource contains full online modules for wellness related to Covid.  There is a module for students and a module for teachers.  Please open the resource for more details. 

This resource is a handout for students with tips, tricks and steps with writing a formal essay.

Use this kit to give your students a quiz to see if they struggle with organization issues, then teach them how to organize themselves with the information contained.

TASK: Student will practice reading, writing, speaking and listening about type of Transportation.
Activity, To Do, Finished

This hands-on project is an impactful way to show students how truly immense our solar system is! You get to decide if you want your model to show scale planet sizes or the scale distances between planets. You can combine a planet-size model of one scale with a distance model of another scale. But if you want size and distance to be the same scale, you’ll need to spread your model across at least half a mile!
Specific directions on how to calculate size/distance scales are included.

This is a reflection that students can fill out to self-asses their SECRET 21st century skills as well as look at their strengths and weakness.

This DLC Visual Arts 20 student created a stunning and impactful piece of art about an issue she is connected to.  Below please find a copy of the image of her work, as well as the planning sheet she used to create this stunning and meaningful work of art. 

Purpose:
● To provide a collaborative ongoing process to support learning. ( Davies, 2001)
● To showcase the student's learning by having them lead the evidence of learning
● To collaboratively set learning goals for the student
● To involve students in the assessment process to improve student achievement
( Black & Wiliam 1998; Stiggins 2001)

The outcome for this artifact is to see student engagement and introduce vocabulary. It is based on recommendations from a Speech and Language Pathologist for students with Autism. This was part of an Eiip goal. When creating these stories it is important to keep the following suggestions in mind.

· Stories should be created using simple vocabulary and sentences. The stories should also be created using a repetitive format which will lend itself to allow the student to, eventually, fill in blanks in the story by handing picture cards to the reader (e.g., “Peter plays in the snow with ____.”).
· If there is, eventually, an expectation for students to point to individuals in his/her personalized stories (e.g., mom, dad), he/she will need to have separate pictures to be taught who is who in pictures. Begin this process using errorless learning. This means that the student’s finger should be guided to select the right person he/she has been asked to identify in the picture.
· If the student has demonstrated an interest in turning pages in books, it may be beneficial to use ‘page fluffers’ in the personalized stories to make the pages easier for him/her to manipulate and turn. (Joelle Lowen, 2016)
Ideally the student will be able to complete the cloze sentence either by using a picture or saying the word.

This PowerPoint resource includes multiple tips for students about to take their departmental exams. It covers general tips, ELA tips, Math tips and different strategies.

"The Student Transitions Guide is intended to provide school staff in Saskatchewan a framework to support students who are transitioning to a new school. This document explains the correlation between transition to new schools and reduced levels of achievement. It also outlines the importance of supporting new students, helps schools identify if a student needs support, what may be required and an action plan that will assist schools.
There may be local considerations that are not included. It is strongly recommended that each school in Saskatchewan develop a local student transition protocol to provide the best opportunity for success for all the new students in their school." (p.2)
From the Government of Saskatchewan at saskatchewan.ca

Student Vote is an independent evaluation commissioned by Elections Canada reports that the Student Vote program is having a significant impact among students in the key areas associated with future voting, as well as increasing the engagement of families in the election.

Teach students how to be informed and engaged citizens.

Mock elections are run at all levels of government and the materials are all provided for free once you register. Bring civics to life for your students!

This resource contains outstanding work from students at Outlook Elementary School.  Please find the following included:Grade 4 Traditional Plant PaintingsGrade 2 Shape Building Kindergarten Boat Constrution & Racing