ANCIENT ECHOES INTERPRETIVE CENTRE is nestled at the junction of the Coalmine Ravine and the Eagle Creek and offers both indoor and outdoor tours of our Palaeontology sites (dinosaur and fossil displays and dig), Prairie Grasslands Ecology (virgin prairie medicine and food plants, animals in the wild and taxidermy displays), and First Nations History (petroglyphs, rock formations, effigies, archaeological dig, teepee rings, buffalo jump, food processing site, tool artifacts and pottery making displays). A permanent art exhibition by Metis artist, Jo Cooper, expresses a visual and oral story with “The Disappearance and Resurgence of the Buffalo”. Additionally, sculptures outside the centre stimulate the imagination as well as humour.
Ancient Echoes is currently operating under their summer hours, which run from May 7th to August 31st. This means we are open Tuesdays-Sundays from 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (closed Mondays). Bookings can be made by calling the Centre at 1-306-377-2045 or emailing anciente@sasktel.net. Our Valley View Tea Room is open every Friday from 2:30-4:30 PM in May-August.

Ancient Echoes is a popular site for School Tours throughout the year offering custom-designed programs for students of all ages in the areas of Aboriginal History, Paleontology, Ecology, and Archaeology.

Ancient Echoes also offers regular summer programs including traditional pottery making, drum making, ecology and palaeontology hikes, full moon walks, educational and craft days for children, as well as numerous other “ project” days. A video of the ravine walk is available indoors for “rainy days”, or for those who do not wish to hike.

Ancient Echoes has just recently added a beautiful art gallery space to their walls. Our new Prairie Echoes Gallery offers numerous exhibits throughout the year of new and established artists and photographers.

Several resources to support youth, families and educators to address bullying prevention which can be found on this site.

Including:
Bullying
Cyberbullying
Gender & Sexual Diversity

Sign up for a 45 minute virtual field trip, and follow it up with a classroom unit about human rights and being an upstander. The classroom unit includes an inquiry project.

Virtual Field Trip:
Students will learn how to be human rights upstanders by discovering the stories of people who used their personal strengths to take a stand to protect their rights and the rights of others, creating change.

Students will:
1. Learn to identify traits all upstanders possess and understand that each of us also possess these traits in our own unique way.
2. Experience exhibits and the inspiring Museum architecture as if they were at the Museum in person.
Interact with a Museum guide and ask questions to better understand how they can take action for positive change.
3. Engage in discussion, critical thinking and reflection on their role in the protection of their own rights and the rights of others.

Classroom Unit:
The Be an Upstander resource is a project-based learning unit designed to complement the “Be an
Upstander” school program. This resource targets students in middle years and encourages inquiry and
action on human rights issues. Students will examine the traits of human rights upstanders and follow
their example. By the end of the project, students will have had the opportunity to explore an issue they
are personally passionate about, share their knowledge and lead others toward action.

The Be an Upstander website is a digital student experience designed to support student learning as part
of a larger human rights themed, project-based learning unit. Students developing upstander projects
will engage in personal inquiry and action on human rights issues that matter to them. Students will learn
about the traits of human rights upstanders, be introduced to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
and examine their personal strengths. Following the example of the upstanders they learn about,
students will be challenged to take tangible steps to becoming human rights upstanders themselves.

If you need this resource in a different format for accessibility purposes, please contact
info@humanrights.ca.

Be an Upstander website: https://humanrights.ca/upstander/#/
Complementary teacher's guide https://humanrights.ca/upstander/#/teacher-guide

«Produit[] en collaboration avec le Centre national pour la vérité et la réconciliation ... [et r]édigé par l’autrice autochtone primée, Monique Gray Smith, ce magazine, qui repose sur les Sept enseignements sacrés, s’adresse aux élèves de la 5e à la 12e année (cégep), et est offert en anglais et en français.

Chaque chapitre explique aux jeunes les pensionnats autochtones, les Traités et les relations historiques et actuelles entre les peuples autochtones et non autochtones.

Le magazine se veut à la fois un guide et un journal pour les jeunes et leur permet d’explorer leurs sentiments, de bâtir leur confiance et de développer leur respect et leur empathie tout au long de leur parcours vers la réconciliation.

Inscrivez-vous pour recevoir gratuitement votre exemplaire de notre magazine numérique. En outre, vous aurez accès à des plans de leçon et à des ressources numériques gratuites.»

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 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.

This is a 45 minute virtual field trip.

Your class will explore human rights ideas through an artistic lens. You will use a piece of paper and your thoughts and reflections to explore various artistic ways of expressing human rights. Our program interpreters will lead you through artistic journaling and the exciting views of art and human rights at the Museum.

Students will:

Learn to identify ways that art is used to express ideas for human rights.
Experience exhibits and the inspiring Museum art as if they were at the Museum in person.
Interact with a Museum guide and art journal to better understand how they can take action with art.
Engage in discussion, critical thinking and reflection on their role in expressing human rights through art.

Honouring the Buffalo: A Plains Cree Legend is a useful educational tool for social studies/treaty and language arts/literacy curriculum teaching. Included on the website is a resource guide, educational guide (questions), audio recordings, and curricular connections. There is a book trailer as well as an exerpt in English and in Cree.

Ignition: Digital Wellness and Safety is a digital literacy curriculum designed to provide students with the information they need to safely and confidently navigate the digital world.

Through six digital responsibility lessons, students take practical steps to protect their privacy and safety online. Students will learn critical digital literacy skills including how to evaluate content for accuracy, perspective, and motive. Ignition's digital literacy curriculum helps students acknowledge the benefits of online communities and resources while guiding them to successfully navigate potential pitfalls in their digital lives.

Ignition is a #DigCitCommit approved resource.

Sun West School Division: Log in through your clever account.

This is a 45 minute virtual field trip.

Learn about Canada’s ongoing human rights journey by engaging with Indigenous concepts of human rights and discovering how people have used and continue to use their voices and effective action to claim their rights. Our guides will take your students on an age‐appropriate and inspiring journey while helping them to see how these stories continue to be relevant and ongoing in Canada today. We’ll help your students walk away with a greater understanding of human rights and how the impacts of colonialism and racism continue to affect life in Canada.

Students will:
• Learn that human rights protections in Canada were fought for and won through the effective actions and voices of many groups and individuals.
• Experience exhibits and the inspiring Museum architecture as if they were at the Museum in person.
• Interact with a Museum guide and their classmates to deepen their understanding of equality and human rights.
• Engage in discussion, critical thinking and reflection on how colonialism and racism have ongoing impacts on the rights of people living in Canada today.

This resource was created by Sun West School Division teachers to support integrating allareas of wellness in the daily lives of our students to enhance their well-being.This resource includes activities for each domain of wellness: Physical, Mental, Emotional, Spiritual, and Social. The activities are arranged by month, but feel free to adapt the order to your classroom's needs. Students can work on these projects independently, with their families, or as a class.The resource includes connections to learning outcomes for the Grade K-2 curriculum including the Treaty Education Outcomes.We have included a focus on goal setting and reflection in order to meet ELA Assess & Reflect outcomes, as well as the Health Decision-Making and Action Planning outcomes. 

These 3 - 5 minute YouTube videos show students how to dance the various Pow-Wow dances in a step-by-step instructional video. The Pow-Wow dances include Men's Fancy Dance, Men's Grass Dance, Chicken Dance, Jingle Dance, Double Beat, Crow Hop, Traditional, and Old Style.

This unit plan overview provides links to all lessons along with links to accompanying teacher support materials that include: Student worksheets and answer guides for individual lessons; Inquiry activities with support materials. This unit includes 5 lessons that includes: Understanding Indigenous Symbols, Vocabulary and Literacy Builder activities, Medicine from the Land, "The Story of Sky Woman" and worksheets and activities to accompany the story.

All Nations Hope Network, Saskatchewan has created a resource for the sacred story of the Mistasiniy including background information into story telling from generation to generation. The atayohkewina (sacred story) is presented with both English and Cree.
The sacred telling of Buffalo Child, is a living narrative of how Buffalo Child stone (Mistasiniy) came into being. We follow the life story of a little boy called Buffalo Child, as he transitions into manhood within the embrace of his buffalo family. In this âtayôhkewina - sacred story, we trace Buffalo Child’s transformation as a human and into a four legged being, finally his manifestation into stone. The sacred telling ends in the demise of Mistasiniy.

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. »

«Inscrivez-vous pour une visite virtuelle de 45 minutes, puis suivez-la avec une unité en classe sur les droits de l'homme et le rôle d'intervenant. L'unité en classe comprend un projet d'investigation.

Visite virtuelle :

Les élèves apprendront à être des intervenants en droits de l'homme en découvrant les histoires de personnes qui ont utilisé leurs forces personnelles pour défendre leurs droits et les droits des autres, créant ainsi un changement.

Les élèves vont :

1. Apprendre à identifier les traits communs à tous les intervenants et comprendre que chacun de nous possède également ces traits de manière unique.

2. Découvrir les expositions et l'architecture inspirante du musée comme s'ils étaient physiquement présents.
Interagir avec un guide du musée et poser des questions pour mieux comprendre comment ils peuvent agir pour un changement positif.

3. Participer à des discussions, à la réflexion critique et à l'évaluation de leur rôle dans la protection de leurs propres droits et des droits des autres.

Unité en classe :

La ressource "Soyez un Intervenant" est une unité d'apprentissage basée sur des projets conçue pour compléter le programme scolaire "Passez à l'action". Cette ressource cible les élèves de l'intermédiaire et encourage l'investigation et l'action sur les questions de droits de l'homme. Les élèves examineront les traits des intervenants en droits de l'homme et suivront leur exemple. À la fin du projet, les élèves auront eu l'occasion d'explorer une question qui les passionne personnellement, de partager leurs connaissances et de guider les autres vers l'action.

Le site web "Passez à l'action" est une expérience numérique conçue pour soutenir l'apprentissage des élèves dans le cadre d'une unité d'apprentissage basée sur des projets axée sur les droits de l'homme. Les élèves qui développent des projets d'intervenants participeront à une enquête personnelle et à une action sur les questions de droits de l'homme qui leur tiennent à cœur. Les élèves apprendront les traits des intervenants en droits de l'homme, seront introduits à la Déclaration universelle des droits de l'homme et examineront leurs forces personnelles. En suivant l'exemple des intervenants dont ils apprennent l'histoire, les élèves seront mis au défi de prendre des mesures tangibles pour devenir eux-mêmes des intervenants en droits de l'homme.

Si vous avez besoin de cette ressource dans un format différent à des fins d'accessibilité, veuillez contacter info@droitsdelapersonne.ca »

Site web de «Passez à l'action» https://droitsdelapersonne.ca/passezalaction/#/
Guide pédagogique du programme «Passez à l'action» https://droitsdelapersonne.ca/passezalaction/#/guide-pédagogique»

Faire face à la séparation ou au divorce de ses parents est une expérience difficile, même pour l’enfant le plus confiant et le plus équilibré qui soit. Il existe toutefois des choses qui peuvent aider un enfant pendant le processus de séparation et lui offrir du soutien pendant qu’il s’adapte à sa nouvelle situation familiale.

Ce site aide au prof à soutenir les enfants qui vivent ces expériences.

To continue to raise awareness and showcase our love for one another a colouring book was created.

This initiative brought together Indigenous artists of all ages to contribute their work that focuses on Indigenous culture, safety, and honouring those affected by MMIWG2S+.

The video series goes through the seven sacred teachings in kid-friendly language. There are seven videos, one for each teaching, as well as an overview video. The videos are short and can stand alone without the resource. The resource goes along with each of the videos. Could be paired with Leader in Me or character education.

Life can be overwhelming, anxiety invoking, and stressful. Sometimes we all need a healthy escape. This Virtual Calming Room was inspired by School Counselors and School Social Workers across the United States to help students locate tools and strategies to positively manage their emotions.