In this packet, you’ll find unit plans that remotely guide students to craft a formal essay over the course of two weeks. Plans include two weeks of pre-made assignments, with a mix of pre-writing, targeted skill development, and scaffolded essay drafting. Choose from the following genres:
● Persuasive
● Argumentative
● Literary Analysis
● Expository/Informational
● Narrative
● Rhetorical Analysis

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. 

No Red Ink is an online site that helps students specifically with grammar. It gives quizzes and exercises tailored to that students’ interests (sports, celebrities, etc) and offers a number of different differentiated platforms and games.

You have to sign up to use this for your students. Some features are locked for paid accounts, but that being said, there are a number of excellent activities for free as well!

Students complete a diagnostic test, do the practice and then write an assessment.

*grammar
*writing prompts
*skill building
*reading response
*bell ringers
*exit tickets
*fluency
*persuasion
*informational texts
*novel activities

In this activity students develop a simplified log table using information from their Log Tapes. Then they use it to solve arithmetic problems by looking up and combining logs, and finding the antilog. Because these problems are extremely simple, students appreciate the logic of logarithms without getting bogged down in the arithmetic detail and error.åÊThis is activity B3 in the "Far Out Math" educator's guide. Lessons in the guide include activities in which students measure,compare quantities as orders of magnitude, become familiar with scientific notation, and develop an understanding of exponents and logarithms using examples from NASA's GLAST mission. These are skills needed to understand the very large and very small quantities characteristic of astronomical observations. Note: In 2008, GLAST was renamed Fermi, for the physicist Enrico Fermi.

Ideas for children to do when they are not in school to keep learning!

Acting as biomedical engineers, students design, build, test and redesign prototype heart valves using materials such as waterproof tape, plastic tubing, flexible plastic and foam sheets, clay, wire and pipe cleaners. They test them with flowing water, representing blood moving through the heart. As students creatively practice engineering problem solving, they demonstrate their understanding of how one-way heart valves work.

Students explore the causes and effects of the Earth's ozone holes through discussion and an interactive simulation. In an associated literacy activity, students learn how to tell a story in order to make a complex topic (such as global warming or ozone holes) easier for a reader to grasp.

This site offers illustrated recipe picture books that get kid chefs excited about cooking.

A number of great resources all based around the theme of safety in SK.
Community Safety
Farm Safety
Fraud Prevention
Senior Safety
Traffic Safety
Workplace Safety
Youth Safety

In which John Green teaches you about nonviolence and peace movements in the 20th century. What is nonviolence? What is a peace movement? Well. traditionally, humans often resort to violence when they come into conflict. In the 20th century, it became much more common for people to enact change by means of nonviolence, and there was a common thread of connection between many of the most notable advocates of peaceful change. Crash Course will take you from Gandhi to Gregg to Bayard Rustin to Martin Luther King, Jr, to the Cold War to Arab Spring along a path of nonviolent resistance and peaceful change. It's pretty great.

Today is the day we finally talk about the normal distribution! The normal distribution is incredibly important in statistics because distributions of means are normally distributed even if populations aren't. We'll get into why this is so - due to the Central Limit Theorem - but it's useful because it allows us to make comparisons between different groups even if we don't know the underlying distribution of the population being studied.

So, what happens to normal stuff (like water) when it goes to not so normal places? What happens if you take a glass of water to the top of Mt. Everest? Or Space? In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina shows us how matter is affected by different pressures and how that make water do some weird things.

North American Association for Outdoor Education offers a rich bank of resources to get students to interact with nature through art and science exploration. There are many cross-curricular activities that can be done in students’ backyards. Some resources include printable material, while others have links to videos and detailed activity guides. While this resource is North American, rather than specific to Canada or Saskatchewan, many of the activities align with Saskatchewan Curriculum.

Each age level find:
- Resource Guides, Lesson Plans, and Teaching Activities
- Interactive Websites
- Apps
- Podcasts & Videos

North Star chronicles the exceptional journey of Laurie Rousseau-Nepton, a young, Quebec-born Innu astrophysicist who’s 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.

Celestial navigation is the art and science of finding one's geographic position by means of astronomical observations, particularly by measuring altitudes of celestial objects sun, moon, planets or stars. This activity starts with a basic, but very important and useful, celestial measurement: measuring the altitude of Polaris (the North Star) or measuring the latitude.

The site has options for:
- Kids (recommended for K-5 students)
- General Resources (recommended for older students and a general audience)
- Advanced Resources (recommended for independent researchers)
- Resources for University of the Arctic students
- Resources for K-12 Teachers

The "For Kids" section contains information about the northern countries. On this site, students can be a detective, looking at images and writing about and by people of the North to try to discover the story they tell. Or, they can look at exhibits, where other people have told one story based on the same information.

Resources for teachers includes questions, activities, and points to other sites which may be of interest to students and of assistance in developing your lesson plans. In some cases, references can be linked directly back to one of the exhibits created specifically for this site. Additionally, there are links to other resources which may be of use.

Students create and use their own simple compasses, which are each made from a bowl of water, strong magnet, stick pin and Styrofoam peanuts. They learn how compasses work and about cardinal directions. They come to understand that the Earth's magnetic field has both horizontal and vertical components.

Ancient Sanskrit theater is one of the oldest theater traditions, and thanks to Bharata Muni and his treatise on theater, the Natyashastra, we can tell you quite a bit about it, all the way down to eyebrow and nostril poses. This week you'll learn about the drama of ancient India, and its connection to the Mahabharata and the Ramayana.

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