The purpose of this activity is to demonstrate the importance of rocks, soils and minerals in engineering and how using the right material for the right job is important. The students build three different sand castles and test them for strength and resistance to weathering. Then, they discuss how the buildings are different and what engineers need to think about when using rocks, soils and minerals for construction.

Students learn about the process of reverse engineering and how this technique is used to improve upon technology. Students analyze push-toys and draw diagrams of the predicted mechanisms inside the toys. Then, they disassemble the toys and draw the actual inner mechanisms. By understanding how the push-toys function, students make suggestions for improvement, such as cost effectiveness, improved functionality, ecological friendliness and any additional functionality they determine is an improvement.

Imagining themselves arriving at the Olympic gold medal soccer game in Beijing, students begin to think about how engineering is involved in sports. After a discussion of kinetic and potential energy, an associated hands-on activity gives students an opportunity to explore energy absorbing materials as they try to protect an egg from being crushed.

Students learn how healthy human heart valves function and the different diseases that can affect heart valves. They also learn about devices and procedures that biomedical engineers have designed to help people with damaged or diseased heart valves. Students learn about the pros and cons of different materials and how doctors choose which engineered artificial heart valves are appropriate for certain people.

Students research engineering careers and create poetry to understand the vocabulary of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics).

In this service-learning engineering project, students follow the steps of the engineering design process to design an assistive eating device for a client. More specifically, they design a prototype device to help a young girl who has a medical condition that restricts the motion of her joints. Her wish is to eat her favorite food, pizza, without getting her nose wet. Students learn about arthrogryposis and how it affects the human body as they act as engineers to find a solution to this open-ended design challenge and build a working prototype. This project works even better if you arrange for a client in your own community.

Students begin by reading Dr. Seuss' "The Lorax" as an example of how overdevelopment can cause long-lasting environmental destruction. Students discuss how to balance the needs of the environment with the needs of human industry. Student teams are asked to serve as natural resource engineers, city planning engineers and civil engineers with the task to replant the nearly destroyed forest and develop a sustainable community design that can co-exist with the re-established natural area.

This week, we're headed back to England to learn about Sentimental Comedies. They weren't that funny, but they were definitely sentimental. The people of England were shaking off the Restoration hangover, and bawdy plays no longer had a place. In fact, there wasn't a place for much of any drama, as only two theaters were licensed to present plays. Rules and regulations everywhere, y'all.

English artist, John Constable (1776-1837), was famous for his landscape paintings. He concluded, "Still I should paint my own places best." Several resources / ideas for a study of John Constable, ranging from easy to more complex are included in this collection. 

The resources below include rubrics for assessing communication skills as well as student exemplars organized into writing continuums.

Saskatchewan Ministry of Education draft English Language Arts Writing Continuum 1-12 including: goals, outcomes, essential skills, and texts, as well as, before, during, and after prompts.

The Renaissance came to England late, thanks to a Hundred Years War that ran long and lasted 116 years, and then a civil war to decide who would be the royal family. BUT after all that, with the Tudors (relatively) securely installed on the throne, there was a flowering of humanism, science, and culture. Theater was a big part of it. Today, we're talking about the London theater scene and the playwrights that set the stage...ahem...for the main man of English Theater, William Shakespeare.

This week on Crash Course Theater, Shakespeare is dead. Long live Shakespeare. Well, long live English theater, anyway. Actually, it's about to get banned. Anyway, we're discussing where English theater went post-1616. We'll talk about Ben Jonson, revenge tragedies, and court masques.

Purpose
The purpose of the course EAL B10L Levels 1 and 2 is to provide students with a locally developed high school credit course in English as an Additional Language. The course is designed to build basic levels of English language proficiency for English language learners who are making transitions into secondary level academic areas of study. The course is based on 100 hours of classroom instruction.

The purpose of the course is to provide students with a locally developed high school credit course in English as an Additional Language. The course is designed for students who are making transitions into secondary level academic areas of study to enhance their English language proficiency.. It is based on 100 hours of classroom instruction.

The purpose of the course is to provide students with a locally developed high school credit course in English as an Additional Language. The course is designed for students who are making transitions into secondary level academic areas of study to enhance their English language proficiency.. It is based on 100 hours of classroom instruction.

This report covers language development from entering to proficient for listening, speaking, reading and writing.

This compilation of EAL resources by the STF is a extensive list of great materials to support teachers of English as an Additional Language students.

"Looking for a rewarding ESL, FSL or FFL language assistant job in Canada? Embark on your own Odyssey

Inspire youth to practise their English-speaking or French-speaking skills while earning a salary. That’s Odyssey.
Odyssey, part of the suite of Official Languages Programs (OLP-PLO), is a nine-month program that engages ESL (English as a second language), FSL (French as a second language), and FFL (French as a first language) language assistants in classrooms across the country.

Over 36,500 people have participated in Odyssey since its inception. Discover Odyssey for yourself!"

"À la recherche d'un emploi gratifiant d'assistant linguistique en ESL, FSL ou FFL au Canada ? Lancez-vous dans votre propre Odyssée.

Inspirez les jeunes à pratiquer leurs compétences en anglais ou en français tout en gagnant un salaire. C'est ça, Odyssey.
Odyssey, faisant partie de la gamme des Programmes de langues officielles (OLP-PLO), est un programme de neuf mois qui engage des assistants linguistiques en ESL (anglais langue seconde), FSL (français langue seconde) et FFL (français langue première) dans des salles de classe à travers le pays.

Plus de 36 500 personnes ont participé à Odyssey depuis sa création. Découvrez Odyssey par vous-même !"

Enhancing French skills is a website for intermediate learners of French. It includes authentic language videos from French websites, as well as interviews of French speakers on cultural topics. Videos and activities are organized into five broad themes and tagged by communicative language function with links into Tex’s French Grammar for specific grammar explanations and interactive exercises. Each theme includes a pdf of suggested classroom activities and homework.

Améliorer ses compétences en français est un site web destiné aux apprenants intermédiaires en français. Il propose des vidéos de langue authentique provenant de sites web français, ainsi que des interviews de locuteurs français sur des sujets culturels. Les vidéos et les activités sont organisées en cinq thèmes généraux et étiquetées par fonction communicative de la langue, avec des liens vers la grammaire française de Tex pour des explications grammaticales spécifiques et des exercices interactifs. Chaque thème comprend un fichier PDF d'activités en classe et de devoirs suggérés.