This document map is meant for students to use and interact with as they move through their ELA courses. It enables them to keep track of the outcomes as they meet them on their personalized journey through the courses.
Re-telling an event
Inside Outside Circle Strategy
News Plan Graphic Organizer
What is My Questions Round Robin?
This strategy helps students develop their thinking processes while providing students with a sense of control and a higher sense of their academic ability. This is a small group activity.
Why use it?
To provide students with the opportunity to ask personally meaningful questions of content.
To provide students with the opportunity to develop skills related to asking divergent or open-ended questions.
To provide students with the opportunity to hear the perspectives of others on a common topic.
To provide students with the opportunity to practice the skills of communication, collaboration, and critical thinking.
To activate students’ prior knowledge on a topic to be discussed in class.
Learn about Métis culture, history, and language through beautiful colouring pages paired with informative lessons. This resource contains downloadable lessons and colouring pages to go with each letter of the alphabet.
The Métis Alphabet Colouring Book is an adaptation of Joseph Jean Fauchon's popular children's book of the same name. With enhanced cultural content, this colouring book highlights historical figures, significant events, places of interest and other aspects of Métis identity to take youthful readers beyond the alphabet to explore the richness of Métis history and culture. George Gingras's images--which are meant to be coloured and are inspired by illustrations and photos--provide an engaging complement to the text. The Métis Alphabet Colouring Book strengthens Métis pride and identity while providing young readers with an informative reference book about the essence of being Métis.
This resource is all about FLIGHT! Lessons include: Dressing for Altitude, History of Flight, Parts of an Airplane, Principles of Flight, Structures and Materials, Propulsion, Future Flight, Careers in Aeronautics, and Airspace.
This is a great resource for multi-grade classrooms or for students who require adapted levels of materials. There are different lessons for different age groups on the same topics. (Generally, their lessons are levelled K-4, 5-8, 9-12.)
The andut website provides up-to-date resources and guidance on foreign language learning in grades PreKĐ8, with the intention that such information will help provide a strong foundation for long-term language instruction. The website offers multiple links to other resources, such as a searchable database for early language learning schools and teaching resources. A listserv is available as well via the website.
Narrative Writing Lessons and Resources includes Sun West lesson plans, resources, and assessments for grades 1-12! Teachers in the 2019-2020 Writing Alignment PLC created these ready to use materials for educators. We hope you find them useful!
The Writing Alignment PLC has created a short video sharing the "Narrative Writing Lessons and Resources" resource that they created this year! The video explains their PLC goal and then takes viewers through the resource bank to view the lesson descriptions, as well as the elements of the resource itself. A must see video for ELA teachers grades 1-12!
Looking at interactions between North American natives and European settlers through primary sources offers us fresh and sometimes surprising insights into the fascinating exchanges that took place in early America as peoples encountered others who were different. It allows us to look beyond school textbook accounts of political and military conflicts or alliances to witness the plentiful cross-pollination between cultures. Indians and settlers were often intrigued by one anotherŐs ways, and open to adopting items, ideas and motifs that they found useful or pleasing. We see products of these encounters emerging that are hybrids of cultures Đ and are no less "authentically" Indian or colonial for being so. Examining remains of these interactions also helps us to dispel the seeming silence of native populations, as their words and ideas have been preserved in many forms. Texts, visual art, artifacts and physical structures all document ways that native peoples interacted with the Spanish, French and British in North America. They offer a richer and more complete story of what the encounters meant to the people involved, and give students a chance to explore those meanings for themselves.
Canadian Teachers of grades 4-11 classes can find free, downloadable, printable Teachers’ Resource Kits (TRK’s). These materials are usable as is or customizable for printing and use in the classroom, and include lesson plans, reference to background materials, in-class exercises, quizzes, and grading rubrics.
Themes included are:
- Myths, Legends, & Stories
- Poems
- The Spirit of the Drum
- The Science of Sound
- Constructing an Instrument
- Journals
The site also has other resources to explore.
Les enseignants canadiens des classes de 4e à 11e année peuvent trouver gratuitement des trousses pédagogiques téléchargeables et imprimables (TRK). Ces matériaux sont utilisables tels quels ou personnalisables pour l'impression et l'utilisation en classe, et comprennent des plans de cours, des références à des documents de fond, des exercices en classe, des quiz et des grilles d'évaluation.
Les thèmes inclus sont :
Mythes, Légendes et Histoires
Poèmes
L'Esprit du Tambour
La Science du Son
Construction d'un Instrument
Journaux
Le site propose également d'autres ressources à explorer.
Le Native Dance projet Web est une vaste dialogue sur la culture, l’histoire et les connaissances traditionnelles des Autochtones avec les partenaires culturels, les établissements d’enseignement, le gouvernement et l’industrie privée.
The National Museum of the American Indian honors American Indian Code Talkers.
During World War I and World War II, hundreds of American Indians joined the United States armed forces and used words from their traditional tribal languages as weapons. The United States military asked them to develop secret battle communications based on their languages—and America’s enemies never deciphered the coded messages they sent. “Code Talkers,” as they came to be known after World War II, are twentieth-century American Indian warriors and heroes who significantly aided the victories of the United States and its allies.
This site offers information on:
- Native Languages
- Boarding Schools
- Code Talking
- Coming Home
- Survival
- Recognition
Nature Companion is a free app and website that provides students with interesting and easy-to-understand information about plants, trees, birds, animals, insects, reptiles, and amphibians found in Canada’s four western provinces.
Each short description includes colourful photographs and a Did you know? section with fun facts about each species. Scroll through the colourful photographs and short descriptions to find out more about nature in your schoolyard or community. The tool is available on or offline and is a great way to connect kids with nature.
Le site Naître et grandir propose des ressources pour les parents et tuteurs d'enfants depuis la grossesse jusqu'à l'âge de huit ans: actualités, chroniques, dossiers, vidéos, balados, outils et tests, une infolettre personalisée, et un magazine gratuit, disponibles également en forme d'application mobile. Les contenus sont organisés par stade de développement de l'enfant et par thème, ainsi que par type de ressource.
« Source d’information fiable et validée scientifiquement, Naître et grandir a pour mission de soutenir quotidiennement les parents au Québec dans leur rôle afin de favoriser le développement de leur enfant, dès la conception jusqu’à 8 ans. Naître et grandir est financé et publié par la Fondation Lucie et André Chagnon, une société philanthropique québécoise ... Naître et grandir n’a aucun objectif lucratif ni attache commerciale et ne diffuse aucune publicité.
... Notre rôle consiste à fournir aux parents l’information leur permettant de prendre leurs décisions, sur une base quotidienne, dans leur rôle d’éducateurs... Nous collaborons avec les meilleurs experts au Canada et nous appliquons une procédure de contrôle de la qualité rigoureuse qui nous permet d’offrir un contenu digne de confiance.
...Naître et grandir s’adresse aux mères, aux pères, aux grands-parents et à toutes les personnes qui ont pour responsabilité de prendre soin d’un enfant. Notre objectif est de sensibiliser les parents et l’ensemble de la société ... à l’importance de favoriser le développement des enfants, dès leur plus jeune âge, afin de créer des conditions et des environnements propices à leur réussite éducative. »
TED Studies, created in collaboration with Wiley, are curated video collections 逖 supplemented by rich educational materials 逖 for students, educators and self-guided learners. In Mapping and Manipulating the Brain, explore the human brain's 100 billion neurons and 100 trillion connections among them, and learn how neuroscientists are using an array of techniques to chart 逖 and in some cases, change 逖 this amazing organ.
In preparation for a school-wide celebration of Cambodian New Year, middle school students (Grade 5-8) will identify and record the big idea behind New Year's celebrations in Cambodia as well as in the United States. Students will compile facts about both celebrations.
"From misinformation to the 24-hour news cycle (on TV and now on social media), students must learn to navigate a noisy, biased, and challenging world. But with the right support, they can learn to be critical and not cynical -- to speak up, not sit back. This collection of news and media lessons, videos, printables, and more is a great place to start. Everything's been carefully vetted by Common Sense editors (and fellow teachers) to help you find that "just right" resource for your classroom.
Check out our current favorites below. Read on for full collections. "
This video was created by Cindy Lee from noredink, specifically for Sun West teachers. It walks teachers through how to use and leverage noredink to help teaching writing and literacy using the free version. If you have any difficulty playing the video within the resource, it is also attached as a file that you can download to view. Click the two arrows in the bottom right corner of the screen to enlarge the video for a better viewing experience.
North Star chronicles the exceptional journey of Laurie Rousseau-Nepton, a young, Quebec-born Innu astrophysicist leading a massive research project at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. Drawing on a worldview rooted in a love of nature, as well as her talents as a science communicator, Laurie shares her passion for the study of celestial objects.
This blog post specifically talks about Number Lines and shows several ways to use them in the classroom that may be new for you!