Education Week takes place from October 15 to 21, 2023.  The theme this year is "Bright Minds, Bright Futures".  The following collection has been put together to support you in encouraging your students to stretch their minds and thinking, and consider all the possibilities their future may hold. There are a number of resources to assit you in lighting the path for students to achieve their full potential. We hope this collection helps you to provide the opportunties that will create Saskatchewan's future leaders. Start by examining the first resource, "1. Start Here".  This resource provides a list of many exciting ideas for you to explore. Make sure you look here first, because some of the resources linked in are collections of resources that are not housed in this collection. Select something new from the list you haven't tried, and give it a try. Enjoy fostering bright minds and bright futures! 

This is available in website and app versions. This is a very user friendly way to make podcasts.  There are a variety of sound effects, clips etc to be used to make a polished more professional sounding podcast.  Students - make sure you have your school's and parent's permission before using this! 

English
Students face an overwhelming online information environment that is increasingly polluted with false and misleading information, spin, and dubious expertise.

CTRL-F: Find the Facts is a contemporary digital media literacy program from CIVIX that helps students learn to evaluate online sources and claims to determine what to trust, using evidence-based ‘lateral reading’ strategies.

Learning is anchored by short expert-led videos and interactive practice examples drawn from a range of platforms, supported by lesson plans, slide decks, and worksheets. The resources are free with registration, designed for grades 7 to 12, and available in English and French. For more information, visit ctrl-f.ca.

FRENCH
Les étudiants font face à un environnement d'information en ligne accablant, de plus en plus pollué par de fausses informations, des informations trompeuses, des manipulations et une expertise douteuse.

CTRL-F : Trouver les Faits est un programme contemporain de littératie des médias numériques proposé par CIVIX qui aide les étudiants à apprendre à évaluer les sources en ligne et les affirmations pour déterminer en quoi avoir confiance, en utilisant des stratégies de "lecture latérale" basées sur des preuves.

L'apprentissage est ancré par de courtes vidéos animées par des experts et des exemples interactifs tirés de diverses plateformes, soutenus par des plans de cours, des présentations et des fiches d'exercices. Les ressources sont gratuites sur inscription, conçues pour les élèves de la 7e à la 12e année, et disponibles en anglais et en français. Pour plus d'informations, visitez ctrl-f.ca.

Character Playbook is an innovative digital course that uses engaging strategies to educate students about cultivating and maintaining healthy relationships during their critical middle school years. Comprised of six lessons that cover key concepts around positive character development, social-emotional learning (SEL), and building healthy relationships, Character Playbook allows students to engage with real-world scenarios, including examples of bystander intervention, resolving conflicts, effective communication, and positive relationships.

This Course Covers
Analyzing Influences
Understanding & Managing Emotions
Communicating Effectively
Resolving Conflicts
Stepping In
Making Decisions

"A fun learning resource that engages, informs, and guides students through higher education and career options."

The Compassion Project for Character Development PeBL from Everfi

With so much emphasis placed on improvements in math and science, skills like compassion often receive less classroom time. This unintended trade-off may be short-sighted, as 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 students’ own sense of wellbeing and improves the learning environment for all learners. EVERFI’s new SEL program, The Compassion Project, is the first comprehensive, no-cost program designed to help educators facilitate lessons around fundamental SEL skills for students in grades 2-4, focusing on the complex but critical skill of compassion.

Grades 2-4 and about 45 minutes.

This Course Covers
Understanding Compassion
Self Compassion
Practicing Compassion

Click "Take the test" in the bottom left corner to get started.

A short and quirky personality style test created by Adobe to showcase varieties of creativity.

The quiz will outline your creative strengths, untapped potential and your ideal way of contributing. For example "The Artist" has the strength of being able to bring ideas and concepts to life; but untapped is fearlessness in expression and this person make a good producer.

Types are the artist, thinker, adventurer, maker, producer, dreamer, innovator, and visionary. Each type includes a goofy animated character that represents the type, there is a description of each type, and who they work best with.

This would be a great addition to a learner profile, or to explore when examining creativity. We can all be creative - just in different ways. This is a great way to illustrate that and spark some rich discussion in your classroom!

Look at the happiness calendar for short and meaningful ways to improve your life and the life of others around you!
Be happy!

Ce site offre le calendrier en français aussi! Il s'agit de trouver la section de "download and print" et vous pouvez l'imprimer en français!

STEM is everywhere—from businesses and organizations to the products that power our daily lives. That’s why it’s important to build the first fully STEM literate generation. Endeavor is a first-of-its-kind interactive program designed for middle school students built to empower learners with the knowledge they’ll need to build their career pathways. Learners engage with interactive content that reinforces key STEM skills while discovering some of the exciting STEM opportunities that await.

This Course Covers
The Careers Powering STEM Industries
Big Data and the Internet of Things
The Future of Manufacturing and Design
The Algorithms Behind Recommendations

Students have access to a number of courses in the area of:

*Social & Emotional Learning
*Financial Education
*Health & Wellness
*College & Career Readiness
*Early Learning

Sun West students - ask your teacher to add you to a course! Currently we access Everfi via the Clever portal. Leila Pullum (lpullum@everfi.com) is here to respond to student and teacher support questions, so please don’t hesitate to reach if you need help.

NEW courses are being added regularly.

ECE- K-3
Word Force
Healthier Me Jr
Compassion Project

Elementary/Middle 4-8
Vault
Healthier Me Middle School
Hockey Scholar Math & Science
Endeavour STEM Career Exploration
Ignition Digital Safety & Citizenship
Character Playbook
Venture Entrepreneurship
Mental Wellness Basics

High Schools 9-12
Mental Wellness Basics
Venture Entrepreneurship
AlcoholEdu
Prescription Drug Safety
Marketplaces
EVERFI Financial Literacy
Honour Code

Courses for ALL grades and ages!

ELEMENTARY
*Word Force - teach reading skills to Gr 1-2
*Compassion Project - teach empathy Gr. 2-5
*Healthier Me - Gr. 1-4
*Vault - Financial Literacy Gr. 4-6
*FutureSmart - citizenship & finance Gr. 6-8
*Ignition - Digital Citizenship Gr. 6-9
*SaveUp - Saving for the Future Gr. 6-8
*Future Goals - Hockey - STEM Gr. 4-7
*Sustainability Foundations - many options Gr. 5-9
*Endeavor - Career Exploration Gr. 6 to 9
*Character Playbook Gr. 7-9

HIGH SCHOOL
*Get Digital - Safety in the Metaverse
*Venture - entrepreneurship
*Data Science
*Money Moves
*Vaping
*Prescription Drugs
*Mental Wellness
*Honor Code - Bullying Prevention
*Alcohol Edu
*Financial Literacy
*Financing Higher Education
*College & Career Readiness

Access all Everfi programs via the Clever portal at Sun West.
For help launching programs with your students contact Jesus Grisanti Clavier

Vault is an interactive, online learning course specifically designed to teach financial education skills to young learners. Using the latest in new-media technologies and evidence-based learning, Vault brings complex financial concepts to life for today’s digital generation. With lessons on fiscal responsibility, money management, credit and borrowing, savings and more, Vault increase students’ basic financial literacy and builds the foundation of healthy financial decision-making at a young age.

Grades 4 to 6

This Course Covers
Responsible Money Choices
Income and Careers
Planning & Money Management
Credit & Borrowing
Insurance & Safety Management
Savings & Investing
Related Topics
K-12 Educators

Financial literacy is an important aspect of everyday life. EVERFI’s Financial Literacy online resource engages users through video, animations and interactive activities to bring complex financial concepts to life, empowering students to better manage their personal finances. The program includes 9 modules on a variety of topics, including Savings, Banking, Credit Cards & Interest Rates, Credit Scores, Financing Higher Education, Renting vs. Owning, Taxes & Insurance, Consumer Protection, and Investing, giving students the tools they’ll need to successfully manage their financial future.

This Course Covers
EVERFI Financial Literacy
Savings
Credit Scores & Reports
Funding Higher Education
Renting vs Owning
Insurance & Taxes
Consumer Protection
Investing
Banking Basics

The National Hockey League (NHL) and the National Hockey League Players’ Association (NHLPA) have partnered to launch the Future Goals program, a North-American initiative that provides K-12 students with STEM education. EVERFI’s Hockey Scholar course, with both a math and science edition, leverages highly interactive gameplay and the sport of hockey to reinforce key concepts like scientific thinking and data analysis, exposing students to foundational STEM concepts through real-life applications.
This Course Covers Foundational STEM Concepts Scientific Thinking,Data/Graphical Analysis

Uncover The Ice - Students derive area formula and proper units of measurement to calculate the area of each section of ice as they remove covering.
Area, units, unit square, square meters, formula 4 SS4.2 5 SS5.1-4 6 SS6.2 7 SS7.2 8 SS8.2-3

Paint The Ice - Students apply knowledge of geometric figures and coordinate planes to paint the ice rink. Point, coordinate, x/y-axis, line, chord, segment, parallel, right angle, congruent perpendicular, diameter, radius5 SS5.5 6 SS6.3-47 SS7.1-5

The Pass - Students measure and find patterns between angles lying on a straight line, by setting up a pass that bounces off the boards and discover the Law of Reflection based on their data. Protractor, degrees, right angle, straight angles, Law of Reflection, adjacent angles 6 SS6.1, SS6.3 7 SS7.1, SS7.3 8 OP8.1

The Shot - Students explore the interaction between applied force and frictional force and use this knowledge to hit specific targets on the ice.
Force, magnitude, direction, friction, Newton’s 1st Law 5 FM5.1-3 6 FL6.2

Speed - Students record and calculate a player’s average speed (using d = v/t formula) over short and long sprint distances Rate, units of distance (m, km, mi), trials, average, rounding, formula 5 SP5.3 6 SP6.1, N6.8 7 SP7.1-2 8 P8.1, N8.3

The Skate Blades - Students help players stop on a certain target based on the radius of hollow of their skate blades, and use this data to figure out the correlation between radius of hollow and stopping distance. Variables, radius, correlation 5 P5.1, FM5.1 6 P6.1, P6.3, FL6.3 7 P7.1, SS7.2, SP7.2 8 P8.1

"This tool allows you to create presentations, infographics, video presentations, resumes, and more.

It includes many templates with access to photos, animations, and illustrations giving the user the ability to make any image or text interactive.

Content can be shared through a link or downloaded.

Teachers can make materials to share with students or other teachers, and students can use to build resumes or design a product for summative assessment." (AASL)

The gamification options look really good within this tool. You (or your students) can make a variety of different games to test content.

There are some great product choices in here to demonstrate learning.

The choices students learn to make when they’re young can have a lasting impact on their lifetime well-being, happiness, and academic success. But 96% of elementary schools are unable to provide daily physical education. EVERFI’s Healthier Me is an innovative, games-based digital course that educates elementary school students about the importance of well-balanced meals and physical activity, preparing them to make healthy, informed decisions when it comes to nutrition and fitness and securing healthier, happier futures for the next generation.

This Course Covers
Making healthy decisions
Eating well-balanced meals
Nutritional properties of foods
Benefits of physical activity
Balancing strength, endurance, and flexibility

The health-related choices students learn to make when they’re young can have a lasting impact on their lifetime well-being, happiness, and academic success. EVERFI’s Healthier Me is an innovative, games-based digital course that gives middle school students the tools to make healthy, informed decisions when it comes to health and nutrition. Throughout the course, students embark on fun wellness adventures through interactive games—from completing grocery shopping to creating a well-balanced cafeteria lunch—working through true-to-life scenarios to help them achieve positive wellness outcomes.

This Course Covers
Interpreting & analyzing nutrition labels
Eating well-balanced meals
Nutritional properties of foods
Setting goals to increase healthy habits

Ignition – Digital Literacy & Responsibility™ combines the power of cutting-edge instructional design, new media, and simulations to educate teens and empower them with the skill set to leverage technology safely and effectively. The four-hour curriculum, designed for students in grades 6 – 9—informs students about how technology works and provides an introduction to STEM careers. In addition to the modules, students apply their learning in virtual environments, demonstrating their mastery of issues such as privacy, security, cyberbullying, conducting online research, digital relationships, and the viral nature of the web.

Grades 6 to 9

This Course Covers
Digital Footprint
Internet Safety
Cyberbullying
Conducting Online Research
Digital Time Management
STEM Careers

Use imagination and creativity to create pictures out of abstract squiggles and marks.