Students use washable paints, markers, and construction paper to illustrate a month from the traditional Cree Calendar

Students will be able to:

illustrate a month from the traditional Cree calendar;
demonstrate an understanding of the changes, cycles and patterns that occur in nature through words and images;
draw/paint geometric and organic shapes;
create the illusion of depth in space using size;
connect personal life experiences to their artworks.

Choice boards are a great way to provide voice and choice to your students in their PeBL learning journey. Please see the PowerPoint presentation attached for more information.

Grade Alike Planning (GAP)A job embedded, structured planning framework that infuses key pieces to students educational experiences.

This unit integrates ELA and Arts Ed Outcomes in the hopes of the students being able to show what they know through the use of the text, “If You’re Not From the Prairie”.

2. Opening activity: Give students the line “If You’re Not From the Prairie”…. In partners, have students generate a list of things that are unique to Saskatchewan. Encourage them to think of something the other groups will not have on their lists. Post these lists. After reading “If You’re Not From the Prairie”, compare the student-generated lists to the ideas mentioned in the poem. Check off how many student ideas were included in the poem. (Could make it a competition, depending on the class, and have a ‘Saskatchewan' for the pair of students with the most ideas included in the poem)

This is a cross-curricular unit using the poem "If You're Not from the Prairie".
It includes Grade 4 outcomes for ELA, Arts Ed and Social Studies.
Created by Danielle Jamieson

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Materials for early childhood and grades K-12. Freely available.

This mini unit provides students an opportunity for developing an understanding of Power and Authority in the context of using stories It includes a cross-curricular opportunity for ELA and Health. In the unit there is the development of some essential questions, brainstorming ideas, ideas for using short stories (The Recess Queen, The Cat in the Hat) to explore characters using their power, as well as scenarios where they consider the use of authority. Graphic organizers helps students to consider the similarities and differences between power and authority.

- created by Danielle Jamieson