An inquiry-based project to map the land in your community. The key …
An inquiry-based project to map the land in your community. The key concepts in this unit are grounded in Indigenous beliefs of interconnectedness, connectedness, and respect for all things.
The driving inquiry questions for this unit are: 1. How can respect for the land be shown? 2. What do we look for when setting up a camp? 3. What stories or teachings are connected to key locations in and around our community? 4. How has the land around our community changed over time? 5. Who do we share our community’s lands with?
My Action Plan is related to Social Studies and the use of …
My Action Plan is related to Social Studies and the use of collaboration and critical thinking. I plan to evaluate the resources I am currently using in Social Studies and adjust or adapt them to move in the direction of collaboration, critical thinking, and technology. This is an activity that involves technology, collaboration and critical thinking.
Hank introduces us to comparative anatomy, which studies the similarities and differences …
Hank introduces us to comparative anatomy, which studies the similarities and differences in animal anatomy to support the theory of evolution and the shared ancestry of living things.
Introduce core SEL competencies to teach students how to practice compassion and …
Introduce core SEL competencies to teach students how to practice compassion and empathy, identify emotions, and exercise growth mindset.
Compassion is an important social-emotional skill that begins to develop in early childhood and is essential for lifelong health and success. Learning compassion increases a student's sense of wellbeing and improves the learning environment for all learners. By developing empathy in children, educators lay the groundwork for long-term understanding of diversity, equity and inclusion in the classroom(opens in new tab) and in life. Compassion education is important(opens in new tab) because it helps to build key social-emotional learning competencies, such as:
- development of the understanding of self - social awareness, and - relationship skills
With interactive online activities and robust offline lesson plans, The Compassion Project provides invaluable resources for teaching empathy in the classroom. The Lower Elementary Compassion Course has three online lessons; Compassion Playground, EmpathEyes, and Mindful Maze.
Sun West School Division: To access The Compassion Project: Lower Elementary, log into EVERFI through your clever account.
"The Compassion Project is a web-based learning platform focusing on social and …
"The Compassion Project is a web-based learning platform focusing on social and emotional learning (SEL) strengths like compassion and empathy. It begins with a tutorial, which students can always access by clicking the help button in the upper left corner. Each lesson starts with a pre-quiz to assess what students already know. After that, a bright and colorful two-minute video with cartoon characters describes the topic for the lesson. Four characters (Tye, Brandon, Alex, and David) narrate the videos in story format. After the video plays, there are reflection questions in the format of a text messenger app that students can click to answer. Characters introduce the SEL skills by describing what the skill (e.g., compassion) looks, sounds, and feels like.
Each skill has three activity lessons. For compassion, students identify when someone needs help and learn how to act with kindness. For empathy, students "see" life through the perspective of different characters. For mindfulness, students practice a breathing technique. Teachers can then provide debriefing and offline extension activities.
The teacher dashboard allows instructors to manage students, add classes, and re-teach when needed. Quiz grades are automatically uploaded and students can access their score by hovering over each lesson." (Common Sense Media)
Sun West School Division: To access The Compassion Project: Upper Elementary, log into EVERFI through your clever account.
The Compassion Project for Character Development PeBL from Everfi With so much …
The Compassion Project for Character Development PeBL from Everfi
With so much emphasis placed on improvements in math and science, skills like compassion often receive less classroom time. This unintended trade-off may be short-sighted, as compassion is an important social-emotional skill that begins to develop in early childhood and is essential for lifelong health and success. Learning compassion increases students’ own sense of wellbeing and improves the learning environment for all learners. EVERFI’s new SEL program, The Compassion Project, is the first comprehensive, no-cost program designed to help educators facilitate lessons around fundamental SEL skills for students in grades 2-4, focusing on the complex but critical skill of compassion.
Grades 2-4 and about 45 minutes.
This Course Covers Understanding Compassion Self Compassion Practicing Compassion
The Comprehensive Demonstration of Learning (CDL) is a full semester project where …
The Comprehensive Demonstration of Learning (CDL) is a full semester project where the students showcase their learning over the term in the form of a Google site or blog. At the beginning of the CDL project, the criteria are co-created by the students and myself. Students then need to demonstrate how they achieved or met the outcomes in the course. Students’ then check in periodically over the course of the term to discuss how the CDL process is going and I provide feedback on the submissions to their CDL’s.
What Is It? This guide connects research and actionable strategies to create …
What Is It?
This guide connects research and actionable strategies to create a 360-degree view of adult social-emotional learning in K-12 education today. Learn what it means to address the social-emotional needs of teachers and staff, learn about different approaches to adult SEL, and explore best practices for measuring and implementing adult SEL across your school or district.
In the guide read about: 1. What Is Adult SEL? 2. How to Strengthen Adult SEL 3. Effective Adult SEL Strategies 4. How to Measure Adult SEL 5. Adult SEL Resources
"More and more, district leaders are focusing on promoting and assessing students’ …
"More and more, district leaders are focusing on promoting and assessing students’ social-emotional learning (SEL) competencies.
Rigorous research shows that SEL leads to greater academic achievement, better mental health, and career success. Your district community -- from administrators, to parents, to teachers -- is likely bought into the idea that SEL can help children deal with the stressors and challenges in school and life.
But in order to cultivate students’ social-emotional skills, the adults in your building also need to feel supported and valued. Promoting student SEL starts with adults. In other words -- is your district attending to the social-emotional development and self-care of educators and staff?
This guide will equip you with the strategies and tools you need to strengthen adult SEL. By the end, you’ll understand different approaches to adult SEL as well as how to measure and implement it in your district.
Download Now: Adult SEL Toolkit [Free Worksheets & Resources]"
Sun West: To access the Professional Development Portal, it is suggested that …
Sun West: To access the Professional Development Portal, it is suggested that you log into CommonLit via the Clever portal.
Once you are logged into CommonLit, you will see a link the Professional Development Portal in the top right corner of your screen.
If you would like to access CommonLit without using clever request a a link to reset your password to get the credientials you need to log in.
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So last episode we talked about some basic file formats, but what …
So last episode we talked about some basic file formats, but what we didn’t talk about is compression. Often files are way too large to be easily stored on hard drives or transferred over the Internet - the solution, unsurprisingly, is to make them smaller. Today, we’re going to talk about lossless compression, which will give you the exact same thing when reassembled, as well as lossy compression, which uses the limitations of human perception to remove less important data. From listening to music and sharing photos, to talking on the phone and even streaming this video right now the ways we use the Internet and our computing devices just wouldn’t be possible without the help of compression.
"A Wonderville quick tips video on computational thinking. In this video, learn …
"A Wonderville quick tips video on computational thinking.
In this video, learn about how to introduce coding and programming into your class by first adopting computational thinking practices. Discover what computational thinking is, it's benefits for your students, and examples that can give them the opportunity to practice this mindset and skill through exact instructions activities.
For more STEM related videos, games, and activities, head to: http://wonderville.org
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Related exact instruction challenge videos found here : How to put on winter clothes- https://youtu.be/LquWGTgRS7U How to draw a butterfly- https://youtu.be/5ttqUx5KS9A "
This is a great guide from ITSE about how to use Computational …
This is a great guide from ITSE about how to use Computational Thinking in your classroom. It includes an introduction, definition, vocab and progression chart as well as lessons on: *Sequenciong *Growing Plants *Food Chain *Persaude Me *Budget Buddy *Research Skills *Traffic Jam *Conway's Game of Life It also looks at Middle School and High School scenarios, and resources for educators,
Sun West Computer & Digital Technologies K-5 Elementary Guidebook - please use …
Sun West Computer & Digital Technologies K-5 Elementary Guidebook - please use the table of contents to navigate this guidebook. Also, we invite you to share resources you think would be suitable for this guidebook with any of the author's of this guidebook.
Sun West Computer & Digital Technologies High School 10-12 Guidebook - please …
Sun West Computer & Digital Technologies High School 10-12 Guidebook - please use the table of contents to navigate this guidebook. Also, we invite you to share resources you think would be suitable for this guidebook with any of the author's of this guidebook.s.
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