"A new tool for anyone seeking to improve their ability to focus."
Users progress through timed steps, with self-regulation activities embedded in their progression.
This tool can also be used with groups to encourage better focus.
Focusable is free - but there is also an upgraded version available.
Here's a way to use ChatGPT to help students grow confidence in their writing!
🛠️ How it works: Take a writing prompt and generate three responses from ChatGPT (or another AI assistant). Students pick the best parts from those responses and assemble their final version, commenting on the writer's decisions they made. Students reflect on their writing decisions with draggable arrows.
☝️ Why this works: It's a scaffolding technique. It gives students practice making decisions as a writer without having to write all of the words.
Use a downloadable PowerPoint or Google Slides presentation.
For more information on ChatGPT, head over to https://ditchthattextbook.com/ai.
Free online education courses. The site features a lot of material found only on universities’ private sites, all in easy to browse categories. Use the filters on the right side of the screen to find the items listed below:
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Learn to code. EARN CERTIFICATIONS.
Free code camp is a great website for online learning. The site lets you learn to code with free online courses, programming projects, and interview preparation for developer jobs.
You can even get certificates for some of the courses!
Free online courses from the world's leading experts.
This website is full of typing games for all ages and grades.
This site offers keyboarding practice for all ages.
This tutorial explains how to find French language resources in the Resource Bank for Core French and French Immersion.
Link to the fundamentals video housed on ROVER and to the MySchoolSask booklet
This video presents the basic user knowledge necessary for beginning to use MySchoolSask/MonÉcoleSask. This includes a) logging into the application for the first time b) setting a new password as well as other user preferences, c) navigating the views, tabs, and other aspects of the application, and d) learning the basics of searching using filters and field sets.
The National Hockey League (NHL) and the National Hockey League Players’ Association (NHLPA) have partnered to launch the Future Goals program, a North-American initiative that provides K-12 students with STEM education. EVERFI’s Hockey Scholar course, with both a math and science edition, leverages highly interactive gameplay and the sport of hockey to reinforce key concepts like scientific thinking and data analysis, exposing students to foundational STEM concepts through real-life applications.
This Course Covers Foundational STEM Concepts Scientific Thinking,Data/Graphical Analysis
Uncover The Ice - Students derive area formula and proper units of measurement to calculate the area of each section of ice as they remove covering.
Area, units, unit square, square meters, formula 4 SS4.2 5 SS5.1-4 6 SS6.2 7 SS7.2 8 SS8.2-3
Paint The Ice - Students apply knowledge of geometric figures and coordinate planes to paint the ice rink. Point, coordinate, x/y-axis, line, chord, segment, parallel, right angle, congruent perpendicular, diameter, radius5 SS5.5 6 SS6.3-47 SS7.1-5
The Pass - Students measure and find patterns between angles lying on a straight line, by setting up a pass that bounces off the boards and discover the Law of Reflection based on their data. Protractor, degrees, right angle, straight angles, Law of Reflection, adjacent angles 6 SS6.1, SS6.3 7 SS7.1, SS7.3 8 OP8.1
The Shot - Students explore the interaction between applied force and frictional force and use this knowledge to hit specific targets on the ice.
Force, magnitude, direction, friction, Newton’s 1st Law 5 FM5.1-3 6 FL6.2
Speed - Students record and calculate a player’s average speed (using d = v/t formula) over short and long sprint distances Rate, units of distance (m, km, mi), trials, average, rounding, formula 5 SP5.3 6 SP6.1, N6.8 7 SP7.1-2 8 P8.1, N8.3
The Skate Blades - Students help players stop on a certain target based on the radius of hollow of their skate blades, and use this data to figure out the correlation between radius of hollow and stopping distance. Variables, radius, correlation 5 P5.1, FM5.1 6 P6.1, P6.3, FL6.3 7 P7.1, SS7.2, SP7.2 8 P8.1
On June 10, 2024, the Sun West School Division Grade-Alike Planning Team hosted a Share Out Day in which they presented their collaborative projects and provided links to all resources explored throughout the year. The teacher recommended resources for Grades 7, 8, and 9 are available in the GAP Hub. This participant handout contains information about each of the learning topics and includes learning outcomes and links to informative websites as recommeded by the guest presenters.
Teachers understand that there are many layers of content, outcomes, skills, and experiences that our students require throughout their educational journey to become competent 21st century learners. Teachers have must dos, such as curricular outcomes and assessment, but there are also many additional elements to provide enrichment to learning for students. All of these layers can become overwhelming if only considered from the perspective of teaching these elements in silos. GAP or Grade Alike Planning in Sun West has offered opportunities to teachers to reimagine these elements by infusing them together. The GAP Infusion Poster illustrates a visual of this philosophy where many elements are blended thoughtfully together to meet many learning outcomes, provide many opportunities, and give students' voice and choice in their learning by exploring their interests and learning needs.
AppGameKit's Education Pack includes everything a teacher or lecturer needs to teach coding skills and is an easy to use tool that can be deployed quickly and easily in the classroom.
AppGameKit works across a range of abilities so is suitable for primary and secondary schools, sixth form colleges, universities and summer camps.
Teachers will need to register to get a free kit and get started.
"This tool allows you to create presentations, infographics, video presentations, resumes, and more.
It includes many templates with access to photos, animations, and illustrations giving the user the ability to make any image or text interactive.
Content can be shared through a link or downloaded.
Teachers can make materials to share with students or other teachers, and students can use to build resumes or design a product for summative assessment." (AASL)
The gamification options look really good within this tool. You (or your students) can make a variety of different games to test content.
There are some great product choices in here to demonstrate learning.
This simple geometric shapes activity for kids is easy to do at home or as a math center in school. It also makes a terrific STEAM project including a bit of art and design too. Learn by doing, creating, discovering, and exploring with a simple, fun geometry activity.
Check out the long list of activities on the Little Bins Little Hands site that include STEM Challenges; free printables; indoor fun ideas; STEM at home projects; free math worksheets; distance learning activities; LEGO activities; STEM activities for physics, chemistry, edible science experiments, the scientific method, oceans, weather, space, and outdoors; all kinds of slime activities; and activities for different seasons.
Teacher Page
After presenting the basic ideas of a RAFT to students as well as the sample roles, audiences, formats, topics and verbs, place students into cooperative groups and give them the following assignment. The assignment is also outlined on the student page)
Student Page
Your teacher will explain the important aspects about writing RAFTs. You should refer to the notes below in developing your own RAFTs.
This site hosts a "collection of small, simple, single-task tools, mostly designed to help people with tasks they find overwhelming or difficult."
This site can help you break down things you need to do at home, school or work into a manageable list of tasks using the "Magic ToDo" tab. The "Estimator" tab will help you know how long your tasks will take.
You can also use the "Formalizer" to improve writing; the "Judge" tab to help determine the tone of something; the "Professor" tab to give you a crash course on anything, the "Compiler" tab to take a brain dump and turn it into tasks and even the "Chef" tab to help you decide what to make for lunch.
This tool is free through the website (the app has a charge).
Google Gemini is an experimental conversational AI chat service created by Google. It is designed for text-based interactions, providing responses that mimic human dialogue. Utilizing advanced natural language processing techniques, it effectively understands and generates text based on user prompts, making it a valuable tool for natural language comprehension and generation.
Google Gemini is free to use.
Google's NotebookLM condenses the sources you provide into both text and audio formats to enhance your understanding. Google refers to it as "your personalized AI research assistant.
Users can enter their notes (up to 50 items) into NotebookLM, and the AI evaluates the content to generate summaries, emphasize key details, and recommend related information. Additionally, the tool enables users to search their notes using natural language, simplifying the process of locating specific information.
The coolest feature - it will create a 10 minute podcast about your subject as well.
Google NotebookLM is free.
TWENTY amazing lessons to teach computer science to Grades 3 to 5.
The curriculum is organized into 5 units: sequence, events, Makey Makey, loops and final project.
This fabulous resource has everything you need to get started coding and computer science with your students TODAY!
Green is the starting level - you can progress to Blue (Level 2) once you complete this level, and then onto Purple (Level 3). These resources are also in the bank or available using the tabs along the top of the website.