Three lessons from the NFB for Pink Shirt Day.

1. Bully Dance - This film "...can be a starting point for discussions about peer pressure, respect, sharing and cooperation, and empathy. For older students, the conversation can move towards how groups can influence/negate a bully culture and how bystanders can unknowingly reinforce bully behaviours."

2. Door to Door - This film "...encourag{es] positive, open dialogue between two grade levels...highlighting the proactive results of conflict resolution."

3. Glasses - "This film highlights ideas related to peer pressure, inclusivity and friendship." *Warning - mention of self-harm.

These three lessons from NFB can be used for Pink Shirt Day.

1. Bully Dance - shows how a community can deal with a bully. There are two teacher guides in CAMPUS (remember as a teacher in SK you have full access to CAMPUS for free!)

2. Discrimination: Tales of Ordinary Fatphobia - the story of a young girl who faces bullying because of her body. There is a viewing guide and a lesson plan to go with this film.

3. Cyberbullying - Star Wars Kid: The Rise of the Digital Shadows - this story deals with cyberbullying and the impacts it can have. This connects media studies and bullying. A lesson is provided.

This site has a series of pre-made free lesson plans that are ready to teach right away. MATH, ELA, SCIENCE, SEL, CAREER, ART, DIGITAL LITERACY, TECH, STEM

They have clips of popular movies and TV shows built right in - and you are allowed to use them bc the site is made by AT
&T and Warner Bros.

"The Achievery helps connect students to a new world of digital learning through stories that spark curiosity and content that entertains as well as teaches."

Don't miss checking this one out! You can use the filters to find exactly what you need.

Copy and paste this url into a browser to watch a short 1 min intro video - https://youtu.be/w-y0u82ps3o

You will have to sign up to access the lessons but it's totally worth it.

"Quick, grab-and-go lessons to help your students think critically about AI and its impact.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the world we live in. From using generative AI for schoolwork to dealing with misinformation and befriending AI chatbots, students have a lot to consider when it comes to this ever-evolving technology.

This collection of quick lessons (20 minutes or less!) provide an introduction to AI and help address its social and ethical impacts. Through these lessons, students will:

Understand what AI is and how it works
Consider some of its potential benefits and risks
Think critically about how we can be responsible and ethical users of AI"

Note - you will need to sign up for a free account to access lessons.

This lesson provides teachers with support for using text-dependent questions to help students derive big ideas and key understandings while developing vocabulary from the text Blue Willow. Janey's father is an immigrant worker and this forces Janey and her family to move around every few months, but Janey finds a friend named Lupe and a place she would like to call home permanently. Janey has to go to Camp Miller School for immigrant children like herself and she finds once again she must learn whether the new teacher will be a friend or just another teacher like the ones before her.

This lesson provides teachers with support for using text-dependent questions to help students derive big ideas and key understandings while developing vocabulary from the series of poems, Danitra Brown Leaves Town. Danitra and Zuri are two city-girls and best friends, and Danitra goes away to her auntĺ䁥_s house for the summer. These poems tell a story about how the girls stayed in touch by writing letters to each other, and how they discovered that they could have fun apart from one another while still remaining friends.

The following is a list of assignments that deal with either family, friendship or love.

Students make predictions about "Bridge to Terabithia" and its characters, complete character studies, and relate the characters' experiences to their own as they identify ways to make and keep friends.

"We all need somebody to lean on, and Watchwellcast is here to help you find just that. Whether your teen is looking for a best friend or wants to know how to approach a friendly new face in class, the straightforward social skills presented in this video will help them form new bonds, build confidence, and become more self-aware." (Common Sense Media)

"Human rights stories are all around us. We explore contemporary and historic human rights stories, from Canada and around the world."

This resource from The Canadian Museum for Human Rights explores numerous stories about Indigenous Perspectives (treaty education, witness blanket, UN Rights of Indigenous, Mincome, reconciliation, veterans, etc. ), Social Justice (BLM, misogyny, racism, genocide, antisemitism, Holodomor, refugees, etc.)

Each story contains information, artifacts, images, and questions to guide your thinking. It also links to related stories for further exploration.

This lesson provides teachers with support for using text-dependent questions and Common Core literacy strategies to help students derive big ideas and key understandings while developing vocabulary using the text, "Marven of the Great North Woods." To keep their only son, Marven, safe from the influenza epidemic, Marven's parents decide to send their ten year old Jewish son far away to a logging camp filled with French Canadian lumberjacks. He copes with language and cultural differences while he learns his bookkeeping job and makes a wonderful friend.

This lesson provides teachers with support for using text-dependent questions and Common Core literacy strategies to help students derive big ideas and key understandings while developing vocabulary using the text, "Sing to the Stars." Ephram loves to play the violin, and when he discovers that a blind neighbor was once a musician, but stopped playing the piano due to a family tragedy, he encourages the man to return to his music. Each encourages the other, and they perform together at a community concert.

Julian meets Gloria, a new girl in his neighborhood. Together they make a wish kite, with wishes fastened to its tail; both wish for lasting friendship.

"The website includes clusters of task-based lessons and examples of tasks that fit within each of Willis’ (1996) six types of tasks. The LCD Group is also dedicated to promoting intercultural communicative competence (see Foundations section) in the second language classroom and has included a section of activity ideas and lesson plans to demonstrate how intercultural themes can be embedded in and complement second language instruction."

In the story Wings, Ikarus Jackson is shunned and tormented by his peers, as well as community members because of his unique physical appearance.