Replaces Kid's InfoBits for K to Grade 5 and features:

-A completely redesigned interface specifically for young students that encourages exploration through a visual topic tree
-Text-to-speech technology and on-demand article translation into over 20 languages
-Searching by Lexile range or finding content based on basic, intermediate, or advanced learning levels
-Over 16,600 indexed images, 600 videos, and 1,700 charts and graphs

To access Blackboard visit [www.edonline.sk.ca]www.edonline.sk.ca.

Your username is: firstname.lastname and your password is MMDD using the 4 digits of your birthday (for example, if your birthday is February 1st, you would enter 0201).

Once you are logged in, change your password. If you need to request a password reset follow this link www.edonline.sk.ca/webapps/blackboard/password.

All students have an Edonline account and use the same username/password convention as described for teachers above.

This is a link to the Teaching Tool and Support page to help you get started. https://tinyurl.com/SWSDBlackboard

If you have issues logging in, you can contact the Ministry of Education’s Support Desk at 1-866-933-8333 or email at networkservices@gov.sk.ca.

A Google a Day challenges users to put their searching skills to the test by asking them to answer a question using Google search. With Google’s search education lesson plans you can take this game even further and begin teaching search literacy in your classroom.

CAN YOU FIND THE ANSWER?

Hints about Print demonstrates the process of evaluating a nonfiction print resource to determine its appropriateness for a research project.

This is a safe way to have your children and students search the Internet!
*Safe Search
*Kid-oriented results
*Big thumbnails
*Large Font
*Privacy

Middle Years Inquiry Guidebook.
A resource guide for beginning the inquiry process with your students. Links to many resources and mini-lesson ideas.
Resources included:
- Brainstorming & forming research questions
- Skimming & Scanning
- Online Research Skills
- Note taking & paraphrasing
- Embedding quotations
- In text citations & works cited

This research skills booklet was compiled by The Grade 7 PLC at Sun West.
Topics include: clarifying, searching, summarizing, citing sources, evaluating sites.

The following is a resource for teaching research skills to grades 1 and 2 students. This works with the 21st century skills SECRET framework, but would also easily work with the 7Cs. It looks at teaching them:
How to ask a question
How to search for information
How to evaluate resources
How to take notes
How to share your learning

Each small group of students researches one aspect of the same big topic, such as the Gold Rush, and teaches what they have learned to the rest of the class.

This is a series of toolkits for older students.

The toolkits allow students to explore a topic, watch videos on the content, and apply what they learn.

Topics include:
Interacting with profs, library skills, managing your time, preparing for exams, presentation skills, reading textbooks, taking notes, thinking critically, working in groups, and writing.

This continuum breaks down the necessary research skills for kindergarten to Grade 8 in Sun West. It includes when to introduce the skill as well as the transfer of responsibility (I do, we do, you do) level expected at each grade.