Students identify the narrative elements in a work of art and learn how artists use symbolic imagery to communicate the larger narrative of a person's life. Students then write their own narratives about an historic figure and use visual symbols to create an image about that person that communicates important events in his or her personal narrative.

Students explore how an artist emphasized the narrative in a work of art that depicts a single moment from the story. They then write a newspaper article, using visual clues in the painting to imagine how the narrative depicted may have unfolded.

This Coronavirus Sanity Guide supports parents navigate children's anxiety about the coronavirus through practical, actionable ways of coping with stress, fear, and anxiety. The meditations, podcasts, blog posts, and talks on this website will help build resilience and find some calm amidst the chaos.

What can students do to make learning really stick?

Cognitive science tells us it's NOT to re-read our notes or textbook.

Instead, practice "retrieval" -- recalling what we've learned out of our brains, not our books.

This post outlines 10 simple tips and strategies you can use in class to make learning long-term, including:
1. Brain dumps
2. Two things
3. Retrieve taking (instead of note taking)
4. Student-produced quizzes
5. Guided conversation
6. Now, then, and way back
7. Self testing
8. Recall information visually
9. Retrieval mapping
10. White board exit ticket

This site offers a glimpse into the Mi’kmaw way of life - past and present and how it is shaping the current reality of the Mi’kmaw people.

An extensive list of resources is available.

1. What do you think the term cyber-bullying means?
2. What are some ways that kids can be cyber-bullied?
3. Has anyone ever sent you a mean email, text or instant message (IM)?
4. Have you ever sent someone else a text, email or IM that was mean?
5. What can you do if you are a victim of cyber-bullying?

Test statistics allow us to quantify how close things are to our expectations or theories. Instead of going on our gut feelings, they allow us to add a little mathematical rigor when asking the question: “Is this random… or real?” Today, we’ll introduce some examples using both t-tests and z-tests and explain how critical values and p-values are different ways of telling us the same information. We’ll get to some other test statistics like F tests and chi-square in a future episode.

This awesome science video explores how engineers make a plan to test all of the variables for the problem they are seeking a solution to.

Use a reference that you all have access to to complete this text features chart/cheat sheet. Students can use this as a reference as they read non-fiction.You can complete this together as a class, in small groups or individually, depending on the needs of your students.  Consider filling out each feature as you explicitly teach it and demonstrate how to effectively use the feature.  Then allow students to practice the skil with your guidance. 

Natural Reader is a professional text to speech program that converts any written text into spoken words. The paid versions of Natural Reader have many more features.

Do you want to foster a good classroom atmosphere and have the students learn about each other in a fun way?

Get students to fill in the template about themselves and and then guess the facts about the others in the class. They identify their favorite color, food, animal and subject. Background audio, animation and more fun stuff can be added.

Create a free Genially account (sign in through your Google account) to access this great resource.

A suite of resources, including videos, a teachers guide and lessons plans developed by the Canadian Civil Liberties Association to engage young people in discussions about the rights and responsibilities of citizens.

That’s Not Fair! is a series developed by the Canadian Civil Liberties Education Trust to invite kids, ages 7 to 11, to think critically about what it means to live in a democracy.

And thus begins the most revolutionary biology course in history. Come and learn about covalent, ionic, and hydrogen bonds. What about electron orbitals, the octet rule, and what does it all have to do with a mad man named Gilbert Lewis? It's all contained within.

Today we’ll explore how sociology defines family and the different terms used to describe specific types of family. We’ll look at marriage in different societies, as well as marital residential patterns and patterns of descent. And, of course, we’ll go over the three sociological schools of thought on the societal role of marriage and family.

Why is gender even a thing? To answer that, we’re going back to our three sociological paradigms and how each school of thought approaches gender theory. We’ll look at the structural functionalist view that gender is a way of organizing society into complementary roles, the symbolic interactionist take on how gender guides our daily life, and conflict theory’s ideas about how gender distributes power within society.

Today we’ll discuss two theories of global stratification. First, we’ll go over modernization theory and Walt Rostow’s Four Stages of Modernization. Next, we’ll explain dependency theory, the legacy of colonialism, and Immanuel Wallerstein’s Capitalist World Economy Model.

Last week we introduced deviance as a concept, but today we’re going return to our major paradigms in sociology and how each approaches deviance. We’ll explore how structural functionalism sees deviance fulfilling a function in society; how deviance is constructed, according to symbolic interactionism; and finally, how conflict theory views deviance as tied to power and inequality.

It's time to heat things up! LITERALLY! It's time for Hank to talk about the history of Thermodynamics!!! It's messy and there are a lot of people who came up with some ideas that worked and other that didn't and then some ideas that should have come first actually were figured out second.

This week on Crash Course Theater, Mike is acting like theater started in Greece. Well, for the western theater, this is true. The earliest recorded drama in the west arose in Athen, and these early plays grew out or religious ritual. Namely, they evolved from the worship of Dionysus, god of wine, fertility, and RITUAL MADNESS. That's right. I said RITUAL MADNESS

This lesson focuses on artworks that depict things people use for a meal. Students will build vocabulary and enhance language arts skills while learning about still life in a painting. Activities emphasize prepositions of location -- through discussions about objects depicted in the featured work of art.