Students apply the knowledge gained from the previous lessons and activities in this unit to write draft grant proposals to the U.S. National Institutes of Health outlining their ideas for proposed research using nanoparticles to protect against, detect or treat skin cancer. Through this exercise, students demonstrate their understanding of the environmental factors that contribute to skin cancer, the science and mathematics of UV radiation, the anatomy of human skin, current medical technology applications of nanotechnology and the societal importance of funding research in this area, as well as their communication skills in presenting plans for specific nanoscale research they would conduct using nanoparticles.

Narrative Writing Lessons and Resources includes Sun West lesson plans, resources, and assessments for grades 1-12! Teachers in the 2019-2020 Writing Alignment PLC created these ready to use materials for educators. We hope you find them useful!

Detective Nate the Great searches San Francisco for a lost joke book. He discovers that the wrong place can be the best place to look for a lost item.

This downloadable resources offers 10 weeks of daily plans you can assign with a click! Each day of mix-and-match activities includes skills practice, informal writing, and essay writing.

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In this packet, you’ll find unit plans that remotely guide students to craft a formal essay over the course of two weeks. Plans include two weeks of pre-made assignments, with a mix of pre-writing, targeted skill development, and scaffolded essay drafting. Choose from the following genres:
● Persuasive
● Argumentative
● Literary Analysis
● Expository/Informational
● Narrative
● Rhetorical Analysis

No Red Ink is an online site that helps students specifically with grammar. It gives quizzes and exercises tailored to that students’ interests (sports, celebrities, etc) and offers a number of different differentiated platforms and games.

You have to sign up to use this for your students. Some features are locked for paid accounts, but that being said, there are a number of excellent activities for free as well!

Students complete a diagnostic test, do the practice and then write an assessment.

*grammar
*writing prompts
*skill building
*reading response
*bell ringers
*exit tickets
*fluency
*persuasion
*informational texts
*novel activities

'Students have an opportunity to learn about Christmas in French. During the learning activities, students will become familiar with Christmas vocabulary, explore what Christmas means to them, discuss ways Santa knows their behaviour during the year, and what they would like for Christmas. They even invent a toy-making machine. For the experiential goal, students will write a letter to Santa and present their letters to the class.

'The teacher’s guide includes learning objectives, a list of resources and step-by-step suggestions on how to teach the unit. In addition, the guide includes answer sheets, suggested vocabulary and motivational games, supplementary activities, flashcards, model letter to parents, evaluation grids and activities, and website addresses.

'The student workbook includes the necessary student activity sheets, vocabulary lists, and teacher, peer and self-evaluation grids. '

*Most instructions are in English, except for a few of the worksheets.*

This thematic unit from Comox Valley Schools (SD71) in B.C. is aimed at Grade 5 Core French students, but is suitable for younger grades and would be easily adaptable for older ones. It is focused on oral practice and participation and would also be useful in primary French Immersion classes!Content Authors: Comox Valley Schools, Learn71, Beth Peddle

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Ocean Heroes Bootcamp empowers existing and emerging youth leaders to create their own campaigns to take action against ocean plastic pollution. Through a collaboration with a group of ocean health organizing partners, the Ocean Heroes Bootcamp provides youth with the skills, resources, and confidence to create campaigns to tackle single-use plastic pollution in their communities. Ocean Heroes HQ fosters a globally connected community of youth around one central goal: to create and implement campaigns that permanently reduce plastic pollution. Campaigns created by Ocean Heroes support the achievement of UN SDG 14.1, “By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution.” Campaigns also support the Clean Seas campaign of organizing partner UN Environment.

The Remote Network of Ocean Heroes is a free, open-source curriculum designed to enable ocean health organizations, education institutions, and passionate communities to implement the Ocean Heroes Bootcamp content seamlessly into their youth programs.

This story is a folktale about a princess named Aziza who chooses her husband based on his answer to a math riddle. After traveling the kingdom, many suitors (a scholar, a merchant, and a soldier) try to answer her riddle but to no avail. A simple farmer is able to easily solve the riddle and that is who she chooses as her husband.

This expository nonfiction text is about how an oak tree may become vulnerable to disease from its bark being damaged by a bear clawing it.

Simple. You’ll see one word at the top of the screen.
You have sixty seconds to write about it.
Don’t think. Just write.

Free Online French Listening Resources for teachers, students and parents with videos, online quizzes and printable worksheets for online learning, practice at home, lessons and school work.
The videos have subtitles in French AND English, apart from a few repeats with no subtitles or just in French that have been specially requested by French teachers.

The world wide web has many supports for us as well. Here are a few that will lead you to further exploration that will provide support in your Writing journey.

The following resource contains the assets (or resources) to accompany the Sask DLC Creative Writing 20 course. Please note that this is not the content of the course, but the assets used to support and deliver it. The files are organized in a zip folder and a collection. 

The following file contains the assets (or resources) to accompany the Sask DLC ELA 9 course. Please note that this is not the content of the course, but the assets used to support and deliver it. The files are organized in a zipped folder, and you can download it and extract the files. Links are also provided to other materials like videos and other suggested resources. 

The work that teachers do varies greatly, but they are connected by their belief the power of talk. During the year these teachers supported oral language in their own way. This projected used an appreciative inquiry model to support and capture the widely divergent strategies, learnings, and support teacher's individual needs while supporting oral language development in the classroom.

Orthographic Mapping is the process of forming letter-sound connections
in order to combine and recall the spelling, pronunciation, and the
meaning of words. It is the mental process we use to permanently store
words for immediate, effortless retrieval. Orthographic mapping is a skill
that develops from phonemic awareness and grapheme-phoneme
knowledge.