About This Guide
These guides are designed by the Global Digital
Citizen Foundation to help you gain a better
understanding of the 21st Century Fluencies and
how they work.
This guide contains a description of the stages of
Information Fluency, as well as a perspective on the
skills each stage develops and why they are important
for our students?and everyone?to learn.
We hope this information will help you with the
development of the Fluencies as you work to infuse
them into your students' learning experiences.

This resource provides ideas and supports for infusing 21st Century Skills into your classroom. The following 21st Century Skills are addressed:CharacterCollaborationCommunicationCreativitiyCritical ThinkingDigital & Computer TechnologiesCultural & Ethical CitizenshipLife Skills

The importance of creativity, the quality of screen time, perfectionism, creativity in the classroom, finding your "tribe", problem solving, and the art of copying are explored. Other resources and contacts are also linked in.

This educator toolkit offers a general road map with a collection of tools and resources for developing and implementing a successful STEM-based project.

The detailed steps in Inquiry-Based Learning Educator Toolkit are outlined as follows:
STEP 1: Identify and Clarify Your Project Idea
STEP 2: Craft the Focus Question
STEP 3: Plan the Assessment
STEP 4: Launch the Project
STEP 5: Manage the Project
Conclusion, Appendix and References

It is intended to support educators in developing their understanding of inquiry-based learning, its application in the Health and Physical Education Curriculum, and the benefts it provides to students.

This guide is divided into four sections to support educators in exploring inquiry in health and physical education. Section One provides an overview of inquiry-based learning as it applies to Health and Physical Education. Section Two provides an overview of assessment in inquiry-based learning and related implementation tools. Section Three demonstrates how educators may apply an inquiry-based learning approach in Health and Physical Education, with guidelines for educators to use as they consider different components of the Inquiry Framework. Section Four provides sample inquiry plans for both elementary and secondary Health and Physical Education, including related implementation tools.

The tools for educators include:
~ Problems of the Month - The Problems of the Month are non-routine math problems designed to be used schoolwide to promote a problem-solving theme at your school. Each problem is divided into five levels of difficulty, Level A (primary) through Level E (high school), to allow access and scaffolding for students into different aspects of the problem and to stretch students to go deeper into mathematical complexity.
~ Jumpstart Guide for Practitioners - guide to accompany the Problems of the Month
~ Formative Re-engaging Lessons - Formative Re-Engaging Lessons involve a cycle of inquiry, instruction, assessment, analysis, selection, and re-engagement around a mathematical concept. Each Formative Re-Engaging Lesson includes a classroom video of the lesson, downloadable lesson plan, student pages, pre- and post-assessments, and supporting instructional materials.
~ Classroom Videos
~ Resources for Social and Emotional Learning in Mathematics Classrooms

Pixar's "Inside Out" is a movie that's all about feelings, and this makes it perfect for sparking discussions with kids about social and emotional learning. Since the central characters all embody a different emotion, students learn to see parts of themselves or their experiences in each character.

As we know, watching a movie can involve way more than just watching. Use the "Inside Out Movie Guide" (with lesson materials) to explore how joy and sadness can come together and make sense of the mess of our emotions.

(Grades 3–6)

***Sun West teachers can access the movie Inside Out using ACF Streaming.

Modelled Reading
Shared Reading
Scaffolded/Guided Reading
Independent Reading
These are all examined with the transfer of responsibility. This document should form the basis of a good reading program. All types of lessons must be included.

These strategies support active student participation in math lessons and allow teachers to assess the developing proficiency levels of all students in the class by walking around to monitor student responses. These strategies are especially effective during the Mental Math part of an Everyday Mathematics lesson.

What Is It?
This checklist from Respectful Ways contains 14 activities for families to foster creativity, prompt discussion, expand children's imaginations, and cultivate social-emotional growth. Respectful Ways created these fun, interactive activities to guide family members through the process of recognizing and navigating negative feelings, understanding the origins of emotions, and help everyone cope with stress.

This is a great already pre made with slide transitions and animations if you are making study games, etc! All you need to do is plug in your own questions and content!

This is a free student interactive notebook that sparks excitement, and takes learning to a new level.

This is a digital template you can use in Canva.

You'll have to provide your name and email to download the notebook, but you can unsubscribe at any time.

From Ditch That Textbook
"Interactive notebooks have taken lots of classrooms everywhere by storm. The idea: a central space where students can create, write and make meaning.

When they’re done well, students get that spark of excitement. Learning goes to a different level.

When they’re done poorly, it becomes worksheets glued to pages.

Interactive notebooks don’t have to go in paper notebooks, though.

This is why we've partnered with Matt Miller and Ditch that Textbook to give you a digital interactive notebook made in Canva that incorporates EduProtocols. It's a win-win!"

As a pilot teacher for the new Physical Science 20 course, the challenge in the pilot year is to develop the
course content to meet student interests and student needs, while meeting the outcomes indicated by the new
curriculum. In an effort to teach outcomes and appropriate indicators, Aaron Biberdorf of Sun West Distance
Learning Centre and I developed an action plan to find interactive or virtual labs for each outcome for the
three major units of Physical Science 20. This would be most beneficial for the Distance Learning Centre,
where students are studying a science course but may not have access to lab materials while working
independently. Further, for students who are absent in a regular classroom and miss a lab, the virtual lab(s)
could be an alternative assignment.

This is an interactive questionnaire for students to learn about where the "fit" in the Canadian (or provincial) economies, how they compare to the rest of the population. It compares our SK population to the rest of Canada, job interests to where the rest of Canadians are employed and budget choices to others. It's interesting for students to see how the statistics of other Canadians and how they compare (across ages and geographies).

This handout is designed for use in a high school classroom where Internet research is being utilized. In this handout, we are building student’s digital citizenship.

The templates and worksheets in this customizable downloadable toolkit will help you build processes around two critical components of MTSS (Multi-Tiered System of Supports): intervention planning and progress monitoring with data.

More and more classrooms are using weblogs as a tool for sharing and reflecting on learning experiences. Some teachers use weblogs as a communication tool, posting regular updates about the classroom so that parents are kept informed about classroom activities. Others teachers invite students to use blogs as a way to publish final written products such as stories, and critiques. Blogs can also be used to share rough drafts, and first impressions, to chronicle an entire learning journey. There are many different ways to incorporate either a class blog, or individual student blogs, into your own classroom. (Blogs from Sun West)

This course provides language development opportunities in the four skill areas (listening, speaking, reading, and writing), in representing, and in viewing. Initial emphasis will be on developing oral language skills but all literacy readiness skills are incorporated.

Furthermore, since basic numeracy skills are needed for everyday communication and academic life, these students will gain awareness of the relationship between language and numbers. Students will have the chance to explore a range of practical and academic math applications.
Students will have opportunities to develop basic English language skills for communicating about self, family, school and community as well as the literacy, language and skills needed for .eventual participation in ELA and other content areas.
Finally, this course helps students develop confidence to learn in a formal setting and reduce the gap between the students’ age and the target academic skills for their age group.