A video to demomstrate how to organize and name files when collaborating with others.
Orthographic Mapping is the process of forming letter-sound connections
in order to combine and recall the spelling, pronunciation, and the
meaning of words. It is the mental process we use to permanently store
words for immediate, effortless retrieval. Orthographic mapping is a skill
that develops from phonemic awareness and grapheme-phoneme
knowledge.
Ditch That Textbook offer 4 videos to will support teachers in preparing students for a future in which they will be in control, by letting them practice having autonomy and choice.
VIDEO 1: EMPOWER STUDENTS WITH CLASSROOM VOTING
VIDEO 2: BUILD RELATIONSHIPS WITH CLASSROOM SURVEYS
VIDEO 3: INSTILL RESPONSIBILITY WITH CLASSROOM JOBS
VIDEO 4: CREATE AN "OUR CLASS, OUR VOICE" CLASSROOM" - AUTONOMY & VOICE
This video demonstrates how Common Core literacy standards can come to life naturally, thoughtfully and joyfully for kindergartners, who engage in real-world research in their own school. Through interviewing school staff members, the kindergarteners come to understand their contributions to the school and the meaning of community, and create beautiful informational cards to honor staff.
Talk for Writing is an engaging teaching framework developed by Pie Corbett, supported by Julia Strong. It is powerful because it is based on the principles of how children learn. It enables children to imitate the language they need for a particular topic orally, before reading and analysing it, and then writing their own version.
This extensive unit, developed by Cindy Menzies, details the outcomes, indicators, suggested lessons, classroom posters/student reference materials, formative and summative assessments for the following modules of Food Studies 7:
Module 1 – Kitchen Basics and Tools
Module 2 – Kitchen and Food Safety
Module 3 – Baking Basics
Module 4 – Cooking Basics
PBL Peer Assessment
PBL Planning Forms
PBL Project Essentials Checklist
PBL Project Management Kit
PBL Project Planning and Management Tools
PBL Project Planning Forms
PBL Rubric for Project Design Evaluation
PBL Sample Rubrics
PBL Science 10 CR1 Chemical Reactions
This document offers an example of a peer assessment that could be used for a PBL project.
This workshop is optional for a school prior to completing the full Day PBL Professional Learning PD. It is not mandatory that you do this work prior to the main PD, but it will allow your school to focus on skill development and make collective agreements about who will teach what in each grade skill-wise.
This is meant to give insight into our process to help with your school's brainstorming process. There are so many different ways to take project-based learning and we have been experimenting with a few of them.
Explore the many forms of visual art, from basket weaving to painting, and glasswork to furniture, with resources that encourage analysis, research, and practice. Preschoolers can practice their colors and discover how colors change when mixed with a lesson from the Abracadabra series. Middle and high school students can design self-logos and write descriptions of them after watching "The Art of Logo Design" from Off Book. The Math + Arts collection provides cross-curricular lessons that combine math with visual arts topics such as Shapes & Patterns, Perspective Drawing, and Totem Poles. Filmmaking, photography, and architecture, in addition to careers in art, the history of visual arts, and art institution, are all also explored.
Explore the videos, interactive lessons, interactives, lesson plans, galleries, audio files, images, documents, webpages and collections. Lots to offer!
Invasion games: soccer, basketball, football, rugby and hockey.
Target games: golf, archery, bowling, bocce ball, and billiards.
Net/wall games: tennis, volleyball, squash and badminton.
Striking/fielding games: baseball, cricket, softball and kickball.
Chasing & Fleeing Games
Movement Skill Games
Cooperation Games
Health & Fitness Games
Poster to display in your classroom or gym for elementary schools - Be a PAL: Positive Active Listen
Socially-based Curriculum Unit
In this unit developed for NAC1O (Expressing Aboriginal Culture), students create a collaborative art piece that expresses Aboriginal identity in a variety of areas. The collaborative art piece consists of many individual pieces of art that form together to form the word “pride.” Each letter has a group assigned to it, and each letter is assigned a theme/idea (ie. clanship, land claims, traditional teachings, community activities, etc) that is researched and then expressed in the artwork of each letter and presented to the class.
Students are provided with an opportunity to discover why Aboriginal peoples identify and are concerned with certain social and political issues. They are also given the opportunity to research an assigned topic, express themselves creatively, work in a group setting, discuss salient issues, and present to their peers. The project also fosters a sense of classroom unity via large group collaboration.
Instructional expert Jim Knight visits first year middle school teacher Aisha Santos to discuss pacing and structure of her lessons.
This website hosts a variety of resources related to the science of reading.
This resource provides information for parents and caregivers about outbreaks, how they can prepare to reduce stress and anxiety, how it may affect your family both physically and emotionally and ways to cope.
A handout for parent use. Tips, strategies and resources to help students increase math fluency with help from parents at home.
This site is full of resources about literacy for parents and their children. Information is divided into birth-Prek, K-3, 4-6 and 7-12.
Each section contains informational sites for parents, as well as activities students can do at home to improve their literacy skills.
There are many partners who play significant roles in educating children. Parents are the first teacher of their child, and theirs is a crucial role in the education of their children.
Conferences are the formal framework that parents and teachers can use to learn together how to provide the best possible support system for the child’s learning.
While many schools still use the standard fifteen minute conference format in which a teacher will see parents individually over the course of an afternoon or evening, in recent years, the traditional meeting has been challenged by two alternative conference formats: the three way conference and the student led conference.