Newly revised in 2012! This easy-to-read booklet is perfect for teachers, coaches, and families who want to help students with asthma take part in sports and physical activities. Discusses how to help students control their asthma and follow an asthma action plan. Also explains how to manage asthma triggers, ensure students have access to their asthma medicines, recognize worsening asthma symptoms and take action, and modify activities based on a childs asthma status. Includes sample asthma action plans and information about using a peak flow meter, metered-dose inhaler, and dry powder inhaler.

ADHD can affect how kids use technology. See how common problems like too much screen time or too little sleep tie in to ADHD symptoms—and get practical tips on how you can help.

The past three decades have seen a dramatic increase in the number of resources with a First Peoples theme or focus aimed at young people. This guide has been created to help teachers make appropriate decisions about which of these resources might be appropriate for use with their students. The annotated listings provided in this guide identify currently available authentic First Peoples texts that your students can work with to meet provincial standards related to literacy as well as a variety of specific subject areas.

Leading museums share their collections through virtual, augmented and mix reality.

Bringing the arts to life through virtual, augmented and mixed reality, Boulevard is reshaping the landscape of storytelling and revolutionizing the way the world looks at art and culture.

The "Educate" and "Experiences" tabs are a great place to start.

There are full lessons in here under "Educate"!

Powerpoint presentation on what you need to know about blogging
What is a blog, why do people use a blogs, what are some "rules" for blogging

Why are good organizational skills necessary in everything?

* They allow you to work efficiently and effectively at any task you undertake.

* They reduce stress that can hinder your achievement

* They buy you time and energy to reach your true potential

* They allow your true talents and abilities to shine through by preventing chaos and disorder

Sara Metz, Kindergarten Teacher at Explore Elementary in Thornton, Colorado, gives us a window into her purposeful planning and delivery of a Close Read-Aloud. She takes us through her process of analyzing the curriculum's Close Read-Aloud guide, planning based upon the needs of her students, and responding in the moment. We see Sara analyze student work and plan for future instruction. This video is part of the "Behind the Practice" series and is also a companion to the two-part video series Close Read-Aloud in the Primary Grades, which features Sara and her students in action.

This video shows Sarah Mitchell (Instructional Coach), Katie Benton (2nd Grade Teacher) and Brenna Schneider (Kindergarten Teacher), thinking about their work implementing the K-2 Skills Block at Lead Academy.  The coach and teachers describe the importance of the Skills Block, and how to use the phases and micro-phases to most strategically group students and plan differentiated activities. The video addresses common questions and challenges teachers face when implementing this component of the EL Education Language Arts curriculum at grades K-2, in particular how to make most strategic use of the differentiated small group time.

Best of History Web Sites, created by EdTechTeacher, is an award-winning portal that contains annotated links to over 1200 history web sites as well as links to hundreds of quality K-12 history lesson plans, history teacher guides, history activities, history games, history quizzes, and more.

Un recueil de matériel pour le soutien de tout.e élève, en considérant les diverses forces et besoins de chacun.e. Le tout est en français. Niveau scolaire: 1ere à 9e année.

Collections proposées:

-Le point de vue de l'élève: « Utilisez les formulaires de cette section pour recueillir des renseignements sur vos élèves. »

-Le point de vue des parents: « Utilisez les formulaires de cette section pour orienter les discussions avec les parents ou encore comme outils pour recueillir des renseignements sur vos élèves, aux fins de planification. »

-Français: « Cette section contient les grilles d’évaluation en fonction du niveau scolaire pour l’écriture, l’exposé, l’écoute, l’interaction et le travail avec les autres élèves. »

-Mathématiques*: « Cette section comprend des grilles d’évaluation en fonction du niveau scolaire sur les notions mathématiques relatives au sens du nombre. »

-Participation à la vie sociale et comportement: « Utilisez les stratégies, les appuis à l’enseignement et les outils de planification contenus dans cette section pour améliorer la participation sociale des élèves » (comprend des gabarits de plans individualisés de renforcement du comportement)

-Information sur les conditions médicales et les incapacités: « Certains élèves peuvent présenter plus d'une condition médicale ou plus d'une incapacité; de ce fait, il sera primordial que les enseignants les considèrent comme un tout lorsqu'ils détermineront les stratégies et les appuis nécessaires. »

-Exemples de gabarits pour les plans d'intervention*

-Stratégies et appuis à l'enseignement: Universels, visés & spécialisés

-Technologies d'apprentissage: Information à l'intention des enseignant.e.s

-Perfectionnement professionel*: « Cette section contient des exemples d'activités d'apprentissage professionnel qui peuvent être effectuées à l'école ou dans l’autorité scolaire afin d'approfondir les connaissances des enseignants sur la planification de la réussite pour chaque élève de la classe. »

*Plusieurs liens dans cette section ne sont pas à date.

Biomimicry in Youth Education: A Resource Toolkit for K-12 Educators is a digital flipbook indexing over 80 biomimicry education resources, selected to assist teachers working with students from kindergarten through high school.

The collection includes quality lesson plans, curricular units, digital media, and more, gleaned from a broad survey of available materials. For educators new to the subject of biomimicry, the toolkit also offers a thorough introductory section containing an orientation to biomimicry’s core concepts and suggested strategies for communicating those ideas to students.

Biomimicry is an approach to sustainable innovation that looks to living things for inspiration. In the classroom, biomimicry has helped improve student performance in STEM subjects, encourages appreciation for biodiversity, and cultivates a willingness to sustain the environment.

This website offers a curriculum for teaching sexual health to students with autism and developmental disabilities. Resources and instructional strategies are presented.

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This site created by Primary Source provides teachers with a key event in African American history for every day of February. For each key event, the site provides links to websites which may include primary sources and lesson ideas.

Your blog project is intended to serve several purposes and fill many objectives:

Purposes:

To express your personal responses to projects and learning that occurs throughout the course
To make connections between classroom learning and your own experiences
To reflect on learning opportunities in the classroom
To share your ideas and thoughts an audience – peers, parents, community (local/global)
To share your voice about issues and topics related to this course
To link to websites and sources with related materials
Objectives:

Share and present ideas
Make connections
Reflect on learning
Demonstrate respectful communication in an online environment

Creating
arrange, blend, deduce, devise, construct, create, design, present, rearrange, rewrite, synthesize, write

Evaluating
appraise, argue, award, critique, defend, interpret, judge, measure, select test, verify

Analyzing
Classify, compare, contrast, test, distinguish, determine, form, generalizations, categorize, illustrate, select, survey, transform

Applying
Choose, convert, determine, demonstrate, differentiate, discover, discuss, examine, experiment, prepare, produce, record, use

Understanding
classify, describe, demonstrate, discriminate, fill in, find, identify, outline, predict, represent, trace

Remembering
acquire, define, lable, list, match, read, recall, retrieve, recognize, state

This booklet contains 7 chapters on topics related to how to earn, save, budget, spend, borrow, protect and give money. Whether you get a weekly allowance or get paid for walking your  neighbor’s dog, your first step in handling your money well is to think about short-term and long-term goals. Then make a plan to reach them. It takes a bit of practice to master your money, just like it takes time to learn to  ride a bike. But once you get the hang of it, you’ll be ready to tackle all sorts of money twists and turns.

It can be scary to hear about a disease outbreak, but learning the facts through this video can help ease your mind.