With a solid understanding of biology on the small scale under our belts, it's time for the long view - for the next twelve weeks, we'll be learning how the living things that we've studied interact with and influence each other and their environments. Life is powerful, and in order to understand how living systems work, you first have to understand how they originated, developed and diversified over the past 4.5 billion years of Earth's history. Hang on to your hats as Hank tells us the epic drama that is the history of life on Earth.

In order to understand the history of media literacy we have to go all the way back to straight up literacy. In the first half of our look at the history of media literacy, Jay takes us all the way back to Ancient Greece and forward through the printing press, newspapers, and Yellow Journalism.

Jay continues our journey through the history of media literacy with the arrival of movies, television, and the other screens that now permeate our lives – along with some of the different approaches to media literacy that these inventions brought with them.

This thematic unit from Comox Valley Schools (SD71) in B.C. is aimed at Grade 6 Core French students, but is suitable for older grades and would be easily adaptable for younger ones. It is focused on oral practice and participation and would also be useful in French Immersion classes!Content Authors: Comox Valley Schools, Learn71, Beth Peddle

This art history video discusses Hannah Hoch's "Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany", collage, mixed media, 1919-1920.

Documentaire sur le hockey. Sport de compétition, jeu d'équipe, jeu de chocs et de chutes, le hockey est le sport national des Canadiens. Les jeunes le pratiquent avec enthousiasme et rêvent de devenir de grandes étoiles!

**pour élèves de 9 à 14 ans

This art history video discusses Hans Holbein the Younger's "Christina of Denmark", Duchess of Milan, 1538, oil on oak, 179.1 x 82.6 cm (The National Gallery, London).

This art history video discusses Hans Holbein the Younger's "The Ambassadors", 1533, oil on oak, 207 x 209.5 cm (The National Gallery, London).

This art history video discusses Hans Holbein the Younger's "The Merchant Georg Gisze", 1532, oil on oak, 97.5 x 86.2 cm (Gemaldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin).

This package has been generously provided by Zorbit's Math.

The ‘holiday slide’ in our students can be just as concerning as the dreaded ‘summer slide’. Zorbit’s offers students a fun way to keep their math skills up to snuff over the holidays and avoid this slide.

Holiday Trivia game especially for Educators. Spice up your December PD!

Many of us enjoy watching traditional year-end holiday movies and television specials. At SimpleK12 we also enjoy exchanging trivia questions about these holiday programs with our friends, families, and Teacher Learning Community members.
Over the years we’ve compiled a list of these questions and we thought you would enjoy them too. We encourage you to challenge your colleagues, students, and friends with these questions.

Ce dossier contient des ressources qui introduisent les élèves à l'histoire de l'Holocauste et qui les sensibilisent aux conséquences de l'antisémitisme et de toutes autres formes de haine.

Ce site contient 13 ressources pour les élèves de la 6e à la 12e année. On y trouve aussi quelques outils pédagogiques.

The Holodomor Research and Education Consortium provides opportunities to support teachers and students to learn more about the Ukrainian Holodomor of the 1930s. Information about teaching materials and resources, such as the recently-published resource, Holodomor in Ukraine, the Genocidal Famine 1932-1933 : Learning Materials for Teachers and Students can be found here.

Lessons & exemplars for high school visual and graphic arts courses.

This art history video discussion looks at the "Holy Thorn Reliquary" (made in Paris for Jean, Duc de Berry), c. 1390s, gold, enamel, ruby, pearl, sapphire, and rock crystal, 30 x 14.2 x 6.8 cm (British Museum, London).

The students would work in groups to prepare an entrée and a dessert. They would receive five mystery ingredients that they would have to incorporate into their dishes on the spot without a recipe to follow. They had to use their cooking knowledge and skills to come up with a meal and a desert that showcased the mystery ingredients, without looking for or using recipes (critical thinking). They worked in groups and, because they were restricted in time, had to be able to communicate quickly and work together well (collaboration). They made videos similar to the ones at the beginning of the show where the competitors introduce themselves. (Technology - new cameras/cellphones to video).

Students will investigate renewable and non-renewable energy options as they develop a plan to reduce the energy consumption of their household.

How would a Polar Bear do if you put it in the desert? Not well. But why? Why can't anything live anywhere? Well, this has to do with Habitats and how animals (including humans) are suited for living in one place over another. In this episode, Sabrina talks about how these Habitats form Food Webs and how those Food Webs help us understand a lot about the world.

In this activity, the students will use wax paper shaped as leaves and kite string to build a shelter to protect them from the rain. The students will then test the shelters for durability and water resistance.