A Year plan to guide your classroom or school in implementing the 21st Century Skills

Artifact: From Tracey Uhrich at RCHS for Outcome WA10.1 (Workplace and Apprenticeship Math 10)

Artifact Description: Students need to gather data from grocery store and make decisions on best to purchase. They must work together to put their findings into a PowerPoint to share with their peers.

Sun West Character Elementary K-5 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 Collaboration Elementary K-5 Guidebook- please use the table of contents to navigate the 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.

Summary:
-after a mini unit on pencil sketching, have students sketch a Saskatchewan scene. Be sure students do not include a lot of detail.
-photocopy the sketch
-use primary colours to paint the picture
-allow the students to use the paints to create secondary colours
-paint the second picture using only the secondary colours.
-display the two art samples
-look at and discuss various Sk art and talk about colours
Outcomes:
CP6.11 Investigate and use visual art forms, images, and art-making process to express ideas about identity.
CP6.12 Demonstrate increased skills and problem-solving abilities in a variety of visual art media.
CR6.3 Examine arts expressions and artists of various times and places.

Sun West Creativity 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.

Sun West Creativity Middle Years 6-9 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 Critical Thinking 10-12 High School Guidebook - please use the table of contents to navigate the guidebook. Also, we invite you to share resources you think would be suitable for this guidebook with any of the authors of this guidebook.

Sun West Critical Thinking Middle Years 6-9 Guidebook - please use the table of contents to navigate the guidebook. Also, we invite you to share resources you think would be suitable for this guidebook with any of the authors of this guidebook.

Sun West Cultural and Ethical Citizenship High School 10-12 Guidebook - please use the table of contents to navigate the guidebook. Also, we invite you to share resources you think would be suitable for this guidebook with any of the authors of this guidebook.

Sun West Cultural and Ethical Citizenship Middle Years 6-9 Guidebook - please use the table of contents to navigate the guidebook. Also, we invite you to share resources you think would be suitable for this guidebook with any of the authors of this guidebook.

Sun West Cultural and Ethical Citizenship Elementary Guidebook - please use the table of contents to navigate the guidebook. Also, we invite you to share resources you think would be suitable for this guidebook with any of the authors of this guidebook.

This project completes Module requirements for both Communication Studies 20 (Module 6, 9, and 15: Persuasive Speaking, Writing and Presenting Proposals, and Writing Collaboration), and Entrepreneurship 30 (Most of the early modules related to Business Plan preparation: Modules 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12,13, and 14).-21C Competencies: Developing Critical Thinking and Collaboration Skills

For this assignment, students were asked a series of open-ended questions relating to the Civil Rights Movement. Students scanned QR Codes, which took them directly to the assignment. The prompts allowed students to think critically, while investigating what the Civil Rights Movement was, and predict how the events in To Kill a Mockingbird would have been different if the Civil Rights Movement had occurred prior to the setting of the book.  While researching, students were only allowed to use Sweet Search, a site that searches for only credible sources. Questions included: Who was Martin Luther King Jr? What was the Civil Rights Movement? Using specific examples from To Kill a Mockingbird, consider how the portrayal and treatment of African American people may have been different if the Civil Rights Movement had occurred before the events in the novel took place. 

This year I had a goal to try and do more collaborative projects. I decided to choose an Art/ELA based project for the 21 CC artifact. The students wrote and produced a stop motion film in small groups. They used LEGO blocks, used still cameras and software to edit the project. Students chose the soundtrack and special effects.

My 21st century goal for this year was to find creative ways to integrate higher order thinking, encourage student collaboration of different levels and abilities, and develop higher order thinking in the classroom. One of the ways that I achieved this goal was with a collaborative Book Trailer project at the end of our ELA and Social studies unit on Deborah Ellis’ Breadwinner. Students were assigned to use the content of the novel and their acquired knowledge on life in Afghanistan to create an engaging and suspenseful book trailer. Students worked in partners for this project, and collaboratively planned and created a book trailer using a new movie program, One True Media.

Task: To develop an advanced level of Critical thinking and to implement it in the ability to ask questions.

This activity is designed to serve as an end of unit project after an in-depth study of Democracy in Canada. I have given an extremely condensed version of the process/topics covered before the project was assigned. 

The following lesson plan focuses on collaboration mostly but also engages students with an aspect of critical thinking.

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