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Critical Thinking

  • A deep understanding of and capacity to apply the elements and processes associated with critical thinking and problem solving. 
  • The ability to acquire, process, interpret, rationalize and critically analyze large volumes of often conflicting information to the point of making an informed decision and taking action in a timely fashion. 

 

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The Human Impact of Climate Change
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These activities for ages 11-16 explore the human impact of the climate emergency and provide new spaces, approaches and opportunities for climate education and social action.

This resource frames the climate emergency as a human rights and people-centered issue and supports teachers to promote a sense of agency and empowerment within young people.

This in turn is recognized as one strategy to help young people manage eco-anxiety, as well as disillusionment and disengagement with climate issues.

The resource includes five activities:

Activity 1 - Climate change, human rights and equality - An activity to introduce the links between climate change and human rights

Activity 2 - Climate justice - A mystery activity to demonstrate the inequalities inherent in the global interconnectedness of climate change. All people are affected in some way by the climate emergency but who you are and where you are in the world matters

Activity 3 – Critically thinking about evidence -An activity to examine case study films and make conclusions about which human rights are most threatened by climate change, which groups in society are most affected and what the solutions are.

Activity 4 – A climate consequences wheel - A consequences wheel activity using evidence from one case study film to make inferences about the different impacts of climate change on members of a community with different personal characteristics (for example: male or female).

Activity 5 – The climate game - A role play activity for which a clear space, either indoors or outdoors, is required. Learners compare the impacts of climate change on people from different backgrounds and in different circumstances. For some participants, the impacts of climate change overlap and are amplified. This strengthens learners’ understanding of intersectionality (interconnectedness).

Subject:
21st Century Competencies
Education
English Language Arts
Social Studies
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Activity/Lab
GAP 6
Lesson
Unit of Study
Author:
Oxfam Education
Date Added:
05/18/2023
IDÉLLO
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IDÉLLO is a Canadian French language platform with over 13,000 Prekindergarten to Grade 12 educational resources, including streaming videos, games, websites, applications and teaching tools. The resources are designed to meet the needs of teachers, educators, students and parents and are curated by experts.

Subject:
French
Health Education
Math
Science
Social Studies
Material Type:
Homework/Assignment
Author:
Regan Gunningham
Elgin Bunston
Date Added:
07/10/2024
Incorporate Higher Levels of Critical Thinking in the ELA 8 Environment
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My action plan is currently focusing on including questions for deeper understanding (Blooms Taxonomy) in both Science and ELA 8. I wanted to also focus on using the 6 Thinking Hats of Debono alongside Blooms Taxonomy question in ELA to guide but not direct discussion on specific topics (Black Negative, Yellow Positive, Blue control, etc.) as well as integrating basic technology into PE games (Heart rate monitors, mileage/stepper counters during activity to measure distance covered, etc.) with a focus on eventually using more in depth tech in PE (QR codes, etc.)

Subject:
English Language Arts
Science
Material Type:
Homework/Assignment
Date Added:
09/07/2018
Information Fluency: Quickstart Skills Guide
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About This Guide
These guides are designed by the Global Digital
Citizen Foundation to help you gain a better
understanding of the 21st Century Fluencies and
how they work.
This guide contains a description of the stages of
Information Fluency, as well as a perspective on the
skills each stage develops and why they are important
for our students?and everyone?to learn.
We hope this information will help you with the
development of the Fluencies as you work to infuse
them into your students' learning experiences.

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Teaching/Learning Strategy
Provider:
Global Digital Citizen Foundation
Date Added:
08/15/2018
Infusing 21st Century Skills in Grades 4 to 6
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This resource provides ideas and supports for infusing 21st Century Skills into your classroom. The following 21st Century Skills are addressed:CharacterCollaborationCommunicationCreativitiyCritical ThinkingDigital & Computer TechnologiesCultural & Ethical CitizenshipLife Skills

Subject:
21st Century Competencies
Education
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
GAP 4
GAP 5
GAP 6
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
Melissa Lander
Correne McJannet
Kelli Boklaschuk
Carole Butcher
Jena-Lea Bang
Sandra Lutz
Shauna George
Shannon Libke
Danine Calkins
Kirsten McLean
Joell Edwards
Courtney Hopkins
Fern Block
Brie Phillips
Kira Toews
Heather Phillips
Nicole Francoeur
Crystal Johnson
Arlene Low
Date Added:
03/17/2023
Inquiry in Grade 4 Social Studies:  Reaching Beyond the Classroom
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We have been using more Inquiry and Project Based Learning in our Grade 4 Social Studies class at OES this year, with the students learning to think critically and work collaboratively as they investigated the “big questions” tied to the SS outcomes. They were encouraged to reach beyond the classroom and access resource people outside the school in their research. The Grade 4 Social Studies curriculum is based on Saskatchewan content and we were fortunate to connect with some excellent sources and learning partners from all around the province.

Subject:
Social Studies
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Date Added:
09/14/2018
Instructables: How to make anything
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Instructables is a website specializing in user-created and uploaded do-it-yourself projects, currently owned by Autodesk. It was created by Eric Wilhelm and Saul Griffith and launched in August 2005.

Instructables is dedicated to step-by-step collaboration among members to build a variety of projects.

Subject:
Arts Education
Computer Science
Design Studies
Drafting & Design
Education
Educational Technology
Elementary Education
Higher Education
Math
Practical & Applied Arts
Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Author:
Instructables
Date Added:
11/22/2018
K-12 100+ Project-Based Learning Ideas for Every Age – NextLesson Blog
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"I’ve listed 100+ PBL ideas below to help get you started on the project-based learning journey. The ideas below that are hyperlinked will send you to the project that is already developed. Those that are not yet hyperlinked are some of our ideas for future projects. I can’t wait to share them out when they are finished. In the meantime, use them to get inspired and give you some ideas to start PBL with your students."

Project ideas are organized by Education Level, and the High School ideas are further organized by subject.

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Arts Education
Education
Educational Technology
English Language Arts
Math
Science
Social Studies
Material Type:
Primary Source
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
A.J. Juliani
Date Added:
02/03/2020
KQED Education - Media Literacy Matters
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"All types of educators are bound to find something of use on KQED Education. Browse the classroom resources for access to high-quality videos, lesson plans, media creation ideas, and other standards-aligned content. Or read stories written and shared by other educators, and get inspiration and ideas for your classroom. Activities focus on creative use and analysis of media. For example, one teacher-created post describes how she used memes to teach media literacy. Another wrote about having students share their culture through media creation. While the site contains a mix of structured plans and ideas, it's easy to find activities that inspire forward-thinking instruction and encourage the development of a 21st century learning environment.

Check out the free professional development (PD) offerings as well: Teachers can earn certification as a PBS Media Literacy Educator by completing eight of the available modules. The site's pages are densely populated with activities, links to more KQED resources, and partner sites, but if you're willing to spend some time looking around, you'll find lots of high-quality materials." (Common Sense Media Review)

Subject:
Education
English Language Arts
Science
Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson
Primary Source
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
KQED
Date Added:
01/22/2020
Kialo - The tool to teach critical thinking and rational debate
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"Use Kialo to help students get to the core of the issues they’re discussing To put their knowledge into action.

To sharpen their critical reasoning skills

To demonstrate their understanding

To engage constructively with each other

Take your classroom discussions online, break down complex subjects for students, and shake it up with new types of assignments."

This education version is free for teachers to use!

Subject:
Biology
Chemistry
Education
English Language Arts
Higher Education
History
Science
Social Studies
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Author:
Kialo
Date Added:
12/10/2019
Kids Boost Immunity
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Free Science, Socials Studies and Health lessons developed by teachers to inspire digital-age students in support of UNICEF Canada!

All our content is free for teachers!

KBI provides a unique and tailored interactive classroom experience that is carefully curated to follow the school curriculum. In particular, our focus is on meeting the learning standards of the grade 5-12 curriculum in science and social studies that relate to:
The immune system, Disease transmission, Immunization, Pandemics, epidemics, and outbreaks; Global inequality issues in health; The role of NGOs; Antibiotic resistance; Evaluating sources …And many other topics!

Click on "How it Works" on the top menu to see the learning modules (and lessons/units available). Critical thinking, diseases, health equity, level of government, global community, immune system, diversity of living things and more.

Select the "Teacher Centre" to find a wealth of lesson plans for all subject areas. E.g., Women's day, colonization, misinformation, critical thinking, evolution etc.

We provide dozens of classroom activities and teacher resources, each of which are paired with an online quiz that students can take on their laptop, tablet, or phone. This two-pronged lesson approach enables teachers to tailor a classroom experience that is supplemented by a fun and interactive experience for the student. Our online quizzes have been developed by health and education professionals, as well as communication experts who have studied the online behaviour of students – as such, they are accurate, informative, but also engaging for the student.

Subject:
Health & Fitness
Health Education
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Author:
Unicef
Public Health BC
Date Added:
02/06/2019
Leadership 30 Collaborative Project
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This explains the history behind, instruction of and rubric about Leadership 30L - School Project Planning Assignment

Subject:
Education
Author:
Sun West School Division
Date Added:
06/19/2018
Learning for Justice (Formerly Teaching Tolerance)
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"Learning for Justice seeks to uphold the mission of the Southern Poverty Law Center: to be a catalyst for racial justice in the South and beyond, working in partnership with communities to dismantle white supremacy, strengthen intersectional movements and advance the human rights of all people."

Subject:
Social Studies
Material Type:
Reading
Date Added:
01/29/2019
Literature Circles in Lord of the Flies
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For my artifact, I incorporated literature circles into the reading of the novel, Lord
of the Flies. The first step in this process was to introduce the roles to the students and
to explain what was expected of them. Then, I split the students into their groups of four
using a random group generator (groups can be adjusted based on numbers, but four
worked best in my class). Once students knew what was expected of them, they talked
with their group members to determine who was doing what role for the first two
chapters. From there, we would read two chapters and I would allow the students time
to complete their role sheet (I also encouraged them to do this as they were reading
along, especially for quotes and vocab) and then they would meet with their group to
share their role with the other members. As the teacher, I would circulate between the
groups while they were sharing to listen to them and to provide any input/clarifications.
We would then repeat this process after each two chapters (there are 12 chapters in
total in the novel).

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Date Added:
09/20/2018
Literature Resource Center
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Gale Literature Resource Center includes biographical information, critical and literary analysis, and reviews on over 100,000 writers from a variety of disciplines and time periods.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Homework/Assignment
Author:
Regan Gunningham
Elgin Bunston
Date Added:
07/08/2024
Living Space - Let's Talk Science
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"Participating classes will explore how indoor environmental conditions influence human health, and identify the best conditions for healthy living. This knowledge is important not only on Earth, but also on the International Space Station (ISS), the future Lunar Gateway, and as long-duration space travel progresses, maybe even on Mars!"

"Students and educators will study the key environmental conditions that are monitored and managed to keep astronauts healthy on the ISS. Students will measure environmental conditions such as temperature, CO2, and relative humidity in their classroom and submit the data to a national database. After developing their understanding of optimal ranges, and collecting data on their current environment, students will make a plan for classroom environmental improvement. The national Living Space database allows students to compare their classroom data with information from other participating classrooms in Canada as well as data from the ISS!"

Join the project on this page!

Subject:
Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Let's Talk Science
Author:
Let's Talk Science
Date Added:
01/28/2020
Making Tough Choices with Kid President
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We all know there are some big decisions coming up on Tuesday. Kid President walks you through some good (and bad) ways to make BIG decisions.

This inspiring video can be used with students as a prompt to discuss the decisions they have made in the past, as well as ones they may be grappling with right now.

Students could reflect on an example of each time they've used the strategies presented and if they were effective or not.

Subject:
21st Century Competencies
Education
Health & Fitness
Health Education
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Author:
Kid President
Date Added:
11/02/2023
"The Martian" or Other Movie 21st Century Skills Activity
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So, let me ask you the question: How often do we let students “work the problem” in our schools and classrooms?

Do we give students a chance to figure it out on their own or in a small group? Do we challenge them to solve a challenge in a fixed amount of time? Do we let them struggle and fail to the point where they have to work the problem and find a solution?

With PL - Now every student was “working their own problem” and stumbling, struggling, and fighting to find a solution of how to learn, make, create, and launch an idea out into the world.

“The Martian” is a great example of working the problem. He has to use a multitude of 21st Century Skills, along with his team, and the people back on Earth to work together to survive and get him home.

Subject:
Arts Education
Design Studies
English Language Arts
Practical & Applied Arts
Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Date Added:
09/10/2018
Math Playground Project-Rebecca Athmer
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Math 9: Play Structure Rubric
REQUIREMENTS:
For this project, you must create a:
• Structure that is kid-friendly
• Structure show complexity and creativity

CRITERIA:
• Use a minimum of 6 3-D shapes, including at least one right rectangular prism, one right triangular prism and one cylinder in the play structure
• Include dimensions in your model/sketch (units)
• Calculate the total surface area of each 3-D object.
• Calculate the composite area of the entire 3-D object (Play Structure)
o Considering door, openings and overlaps

Subject:
Math
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Date Added:
07/25/2018