Sun West endorsed resources.
Sun West endorsed resources.
Authentic assessment is the process of gathering evidence and documenting a student’s learning and growth in an authentic context. Authentic assessment, unlike traditional assessment, is used to evaluate the individual student.
The past three decades have seen a dramatic increase in the number of resources with a First Peoples theme or focus aimed at young people. This guide has been created to help teachers make appropriate decisions about which of these resources might be appropriate for use with their students. The annotated listings provided in this guide identify currently available authentic First Peoples texts that your students can work with to meet provincial standards related to literacy as well as a variety of specific subject areas.
In this lesson, students consider the different factors that make online sources reliable or unreliable. They then learn quick steps they can take to gauge an online source’s reliability and practice these steps by playing an interactive online game. Finally, students create a media product to teach other students how to do one of the tactics they’ve learned.
This site offer a big list of children's book writers doing virtual author activities and read alouds.
In this course, students will learn about career pathways available in the automotive industry by taking a tour of relevant industry websites.
Module titles include:
- Navigating Your Future in Automotive and Mobility
- Discover Your Inner Recreation Vehicle (RV) Tech
- Exploring Career Opportunities in the RV Industry
- Getting Down to (Automotive) Business
- Drive Automotive Excellence in B.C.*
- The Real Deal on New Car Dealerships in B.C.*
Auxy is a digital-music-creation app for iOS that focuses on beats and electronic music. It's gorgeously designed, offering a simple-to-hop-into experience that has tons of depth. To start creating your track, add a melodic instrument or drum sound from the app's built-in sound pack. Then, press and hold to edit your loop, duplicate it, or toggle a 12-tone chromatic scale or an 8-tone major, minor, or harmonic minor scale. The next screen shows a grid. Each column represents a note of the scale, and each row is a single beat. Tap the boxes in each row to indicate which notes you want to play on each beat. You can add as many instruments as you like to your one-, two-, or four-bar loop. Then, swipe to the right on-screen to create the next loop in your song with the same instruments. Tap the gear at the top of the screen to alter settings for your project (such as tempo and key).
From the menu at right, you can render your project and then export it directly to SoundCloud or save it as a video, audio, or uncompressed WAV file to your device. You can also export your project as a MIDI file or export the individual instruments. The top-left menu lets you browse built-in projects and your own creations, and you can also browse and download additional sound packs. You can also browse other users' creations on SoundCloud or view the Auxy Instagram feed.
In this lesson students are introduced to the concept of “avatars” and share their experiences creating and playing avatars in video games and virtual worlds. They then create avatars using a program that is intentionally limited in terms of available body types and gender markers, first creating an avatar of their own gender and then of the opposite gender, and then discuss the program and relate it to representations of gender and body image in games and virtual worlds and in other media. Students then create avatars using a much more flexible version of the program and compare that experience to the more limited version. Finally, students use the more versatile program to create avatars that represent how they see themselves and how they would like others to see them online and reflect on the choices that went into creating them.
This site offers 5,390+ robust, original stories based on primary sources and presented in various media formats: written, dramatized narrations, videos, images, maps, and more!
Free stories each day are available for access - see the home page and the What Matters Now tabs
The inspiration for this site came from John Allen Paulos' book Innumeracy. From it Fawn Nguyen took the mathematical fun facts, etc. and created middle school mathematics critical thinking problems that relate to ratios and proportional reasoning and require students to compare stuff and really get them thinking.
Here's an example:
Tortoises have the longest lifespan among vertebrates, about 200 years.
A fruit fly's lifespan is about 45 days.
If we scaled both lifespans down so that a tortoise's 200 years is now 1 day, then what is the fruit fly's lifespan, in seconds?
The Atlanta 1996 Olympic men’s 4x100m relay captured the eyes of the world. It was a showdown between the USA host team and the Canadian underdogs. Few people noticed that the team’s starting runner, Carlton Chambers, was not racing at his best. He had sustained a slight injury and hoped that it would be better for the final. After a discussion with the team, the truth was evident and he knew he had to step down for the good of the team. Fortunately, Robert Esmie was waiting in the wings and ready to fulfill his role as team reserve. The race was an epic moment in Canadian sport history. The gold medal likely would not have been won, except for Carlton’s teamwork.
This resource shows students that teamwork requires that you put the good of the team first. Sometimes that means making personal sacrifices like letting someone else take your spot or play a role you would have liked to play yourself.
Download the complete lesson, featuring the following outcomes:
- Identify characteristics of successful teams and team members;
- Understand how to practice effective teamwork;
- Learn how to take teamwork experiences in the classroom and apply them to everyday challenges.
Leading museums share their collections through virtual, augmented and mix reality.
Bringing the arts to life through virtual, augmented and mixed reality, Boulevard is reshaping the landscape of storytelling and revolutionizing the way the world looks at art and culture.
The "Educate" and "Experiences" tabs are a great place to start.
There are full lessons in here under "Educate"!
"‘Tis the season of gratitude and reflection, of homecomings and joyous tidings... At least, that’s what the end-of-year holiday time usually brings. While we acknowledge that this year has been anything but usual, simply saying “2020 is different” feels like too obvious an understatement.
Many of us simply aren’t ready or even willing to reflect on a year of thwarted plans, grave safety concerns, and extraordinary challenges to our core values and identities. Even so, we realize that some kind of closure, however small or personal, is essential to moving forward with courage and wholeheartedness.
With this toolkit, we share our favorite practices for heart-centered breathwork, movement and mindful presence. The journey of returning to joy can carry us through sorrow, anger or exhaustion, and we provide tools here to support you with release, relief and rest.
In this toolkit, you’ll find practices for:
Hope
Rest
Reflection
Joy
Connection
Processing Grief
Letting Go
Sitting with Stress
Enter your email to download the toolkit today."
Classroom Culture
Instill a sustainable, positive culture in your classroom with these lessons and activities.
Elementary - 8 Activities for Building a Compassionate Classroom Culture
Middle School - 7 Activities to Foster Decision-Making and Character Skills
High School - 6 Ways to Embed Mental Wellness into Classroom Culture
Components of a balanced literacy program.
Bamboo Learning is the leader in voice powered education, having won three national awards for voice-based e-learning tools. Our Alexa skills, Bamboo® Books, Bamboo® Luminaries, Bamboo® Math, Bamboo® Music, and Highlights Storybooks from Bamboo, get more challenging as students master different levels. Bamboo skills also track progress & award badges. Bamboo Grove is a web-based parent dashboard for parents to follow their children’s progress in Bamboo Learning’s Alexa skills.
In this art history video discussion Beth Harris and Steven Zucker consider the Barberini Faun, c. 220 B.C.E. (Glyptothek, Munich).
Learn More at mathantics.com Visit http://www.mathantics.com for more Free math videos and additional subscription based content!
This is a basic user profile that can be used with students or adults. This profile was used at the 2018 Sun West Triad Retreat.
This webinar will give you a refresher on top notch lesson planning criteria that we all know to be effective…except with a twist! The twist is sharing tips and tricks for doing this in an online environment! The tips are tricks will include how to:
-engage online learners
-create navigational patters and repeated routines for our learners
-connect with our students and families
-provide timely and meaningful feedback
-deliver content clearly and effectively
-activate prior knowledge
-apply new knowledge to their personal lives
Most of all, we will share templates, strategies, online tools to help us all create fun and engaging learning experiences for us all!
Powerpoint presentation on what you need to know about blogging
What is a blog, why do people use a blogs, what are some "rules" for blogging