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4 GAP Theme: Who am I?

This comprehensive collection of resources is thoughtfully curated to support Grade 4 teachers in exploring the meaningful theme of "Who Am I?". It offers a diverse range of materials and activities that encourage students to explore their personal identities, cultural backgrounds, and connections to their communities. The collection includes interactive worksheets, reflective exercises, and engaging projects that foster self-discovery, empathy, and inclusivity. Students will explore topics such as family heritage, traditions, and the importance of diversity. These resources provide opportunities for students to develop a strong sense of self, respect for others, and appreciation for the diverse identities within their classroom and beyond. By utilizing these resources, teachers can create a supportive and inclusive environment that empowers students to celebrate their individuality while cultivating a sense of belonging and understanding among their peers.

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Art Lesson: Micrography Self-Portraits
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This lesson has students creating a self portrait using image and text.

This lesson can be completed in Art & ELA.
Morphology of the word micrography – micro – small; graphy -writing – students use small writing to create portraits!

Students will need to have a good understanding of self to create their portrait. Ideas could include words to describe the student, phrases, quotes, song lyrics, family members, poetry, or random thoughts. Some students may need guidance as to what information to include (or a model).

Sun West - Contact your school’s technology coach if require help with the technology piece of this lesson.

Extension – this lesson could be extended further into Social Studies or ELA by having students complete micrography portraits of historical figures, indigenous leaders, scientists or characters from novels or stories they are studying.

Multiage - Grade 4 students could complete this activity for prairie landscapes & Grade 5 students could complete this on pop art.

Subject:
Arts Education
English Language Arts
Indigenous Perspectives
Social Studies
Visual Arts
Material Type:
GAP 4
GAP 5
GAP 6
Lesson
Author:
Incredible Art
Date Added:
02/28/2023
Colour Psychology - Wellness & Social Emotional Wellness
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Colours have the power to make us think and feel different emotions. This assignment allows students to dive into the psychology of colours. 

Subject:
Emotional Wellness
Mental Wellness
Psychology
Material Type:
Assessment
GAP 4
GAP 5
GAP 6
Homework/Assignment
Unit of Study
Author:
Kirsten Elder
Nichole Bredy
Date Added:
03/29/2023
Compassion Project: Lower Elementary
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Introduce core SEL competencies to teach students how to practice compassion and empathy, identify emotions, and exercise growth mindset.

Compassion is an important social-emotional skill that begins to develop in early childhood and is essential for lifelong health and success. Learning compassion increases a student's sense of wellbeing and improves the learning environment for all learners. By developing empathy in children, educators lay the groundwork for long-term understanding of diversity, equity and inclusion in the classroom(opens in new tab) and in life. Compassion education is important(opens in new tab) because it helps to build key social-emotional learning competencies, such as:

- development of the understanding of self
- social awareness, and
- relationship skills

With interactive online activities and robust offline lesson plans, The Compassion Project provides invaluable resources for teaching empathy in the classroom. The Lower Elementary Compassion Course has three online lessons; Compassion Playground, EmpathEyes, and Mindful Maze.

Sun West School Division: To access The Compassion Project: Lower Elementary, log into EVERFI through your clever account.

Subject:
Education
Elementary Education
Emotional Wellness
Health & Fitness
Health Education
Mental Wellness
Spiritual Wellness
Wellness
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
GAP 4
Provider:
Everfi
Author:
EVERFI
The Compassion Project
Date Added:
04/21/2023
Exploring Identity Through Art - Based on Leah Dorion's "The Giving Tree"
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Explore the elements of art, culture, and identity through this guided lesson based on Leah Dorion's "The Giving Tree: A Retelling of a Traditional Métis Story." We are connected through place and culture! The values, beliefs, traditions, religion, natural environment, recreational activities, music, dance, and art that surround us help to form our identity. We share, listen, learn, and grow from and with each other. Students will think about their own identity and the many pieces that make them unique as they create a painting in the style of Leah Dorion's work.

Subject:
Arts Education
Indigenous Perspectives
Social Studies
Material Type:
GAP 4
GAP 5
GAP 6
Lesson
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
Brie Phillips
Date Added:
06/29/2023
Four Directions Teachings
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FourDirectionsTeachings.com is a visually stunning audio narrated resource for learning about Indigenous knowledge and philosophy from five diverse First Nations in Canada. Navigate to the site map for access to the teacher lesson plans to go along with the interactive audio and visual content.
Junior: Grades 1-6
Intermediate: Grades 7-9
Senior: Grades 10-12

Four Directions Teachings rend hommage à la tradition orale autochtone, en mettant en valeur le procédé d’écoute attentive, lorsque un ancien ou un professeur traditionnel partage un enseignement, selon son point de vue, sur la richesse et la valeur des traditions culturelles provenant de sa nation.

Available in:
Flash Version - English and French
HTML Version - English and French
Subtitles Version - English and French

Subject:
English Language Arts
French
Indigenous Perspectives
Language Education
Native Studies
Social Studies
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
GAP 4
GAP 5
GAP 6
Lesson
Reading
Unit of Study
Author:
Patrimoine canadien
Canadian Heritage
Date Added:
10/30/2018
Healthier Me: Elementary School (Grade Alike Planning GAP Focus)
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The choices students learn to make when they’re young can have a lasting impact on their lifetime well-being, happiness, and academic success. But 96% of elementary schools are unable to provide daily physical education.

EVERFI’s Healthier Me is an innovative, games-based elementary school health curriculum that educates elementary school students about the importance of well-balanced meals and physical activity. These elementary health lesson plans prepare students to make healthy, informed decisions when it comes to nutrition and fitness, securing a healthier and happier future for the next generation.

This course could easily be extended to having students create an action plan (Health Education DM and AP outcomes) based on what they have learned in this course.

Sun West School Division: log into this EVERFI course through your clever account.

Subject:
Education
Elementary Education
Health & Fitness
Health Education
Physical Wellness
Wellness
Material Type:
Unit of Study
Provider:
Everfi
Author:
EVERFI
Date Added:
04/21/2023
LIVE Arts: Bison Truths with Kevin Wesaquate and Nyle Miigizi Johnston. Grades 4 & 5
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In this LIVE Arts installment Kevin and Nyle explore Indigenous stories and storytelling. Students write their own stories and use them as the basis for a visual artwork that combines text, image and color.

Subject:
Arts Education
Creative Writing
Education
Elementary Education
English Language Arts
Indigenous Perspectives
Social Studies
Visual Arts
Material Type:
GAP 4
GAP 5
Author:
LIVE Arts
ROVER
Date Added:
05/02/2023
LIVE Arts: Métis Art and Stories in the Classroom with Leah Marie Dorion. Grades 3 & 4
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Why were bison essential to people living on the plains, prior to the time of Treaty negotiations (1870s)? What does the bison represent today? This LIVE Arts broadcast features contemporary artwork and storytelling by Métis artist Leah Marie Dorion, based on her children's book, "Métis Camp Circle: A Bison Culture Way of Life." Leah reads from the book, discusses the importance of bison (past and present), explains the use of Métis symbolism and discuss the composition and design of the illustrations. Leah guides students through a live drawing activity where they learn to draw and paint a bison as inspired by Leah's particular style of creating and imagery.

Subject:
Arts Education
Creative Writing
English Language Arts
Indigenous Perspectives
Science
Social Studies
Visual Arts
Material Type:
GAP 4
Author:
ROVER
LIVE Arts
Date Added:
05/02/2023
Passport for Life- PHE Canada
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Passport for Life supports the awareness, assessment, development and advancement of physical
literacy among students and teachers. The four components of physical literacy that are assessed in
Passport for Life are Active Participation, Living Skills, Fitness Skills and Movement Skills. Passport for Life combines student responses to online questionnaires with student data resulting from
their participation in fitness and movement skill tasks that teachers administer and observe.
Based on the results of the physical literacy assessments, the Passport for Life website generates a
Student Passport and a Class Passport. These passports highlight gaps in students’ physical literacy
levels and support teachers in adapting their programming and instruction to provide targeted lessons
that are relevant at both the class and student- levels. The passport results are user-friendly for
teachers, parents and students and offer these target groups a platform to engage in meaningful
conversation about student physical literacy assessment outcomes to support future improvements.

Teachers need to register for a free account.

Subject:
Education
Elementary Education
Health & Fitness
Physical Education
Physical Wellness
Wellness
Material Type:
Assessment
GAP 4
GAP 5
GAP 6
Author:
PHE Canada
Date Added:
04/18/2023
Reader's Theatre - The Signing of Treaty 6 FNMI
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This is a lesson designed to teach Elementary students about Treaty 6.

The script has been divided into four scenes, each taking place at a different location. To help students make sense of the locations, here is an outline map of Canada with capital cities.

I have listed the readers in each scene to allow you the opportunity to include all class members in the Reader’s Theatre experience.

New words and locations are identified by an asterisk * to give teachers an opportunity to stop the reading to discuss the term.

Photographs of the people involved in the Treaty process are included at the end of the script.

Resource by Jade Ballek

Subject:
Education
Indigenous Perspectives
Native Studies
Social Studies
Treaty Education
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
GAP 4
GAP 5
Date Added:
08/31/2018
Ready Check Go- PHE Canada
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The Ready, Check, Go! Series is a physical activity tracker designed to help children and their parents/guardians understand the importance and enjoyment of incorporating regular daily physical activity in ways that suit their personal beliefs and needs.

The Ready, Check, Go! Series includes:
- Participant/Student Workbook to track physical activity (ages 9-11 and 12-14), and Leader/Teacher, and Parent Guides
- Activities to promote the importance of participating in regular physical activity
- Goal setting worksheets to help enhance physical activity behaviours
- Inclusive activities for children of all abilities

The objective of this program is to help children, youth and their parents/guardians understand the importance of regular physical activity; their current physical activity behaviours; and strategies to help them engage in more physical activities. This knowledge can help increase the amount of physical activity children and youth engage in, value and enjoy, in ways that suit their personal beliefs and needs. Specifically, the Ready, Check, Go! is a learning activity to help children aged 9-14 discover more about:
- How physically active they are on typical day;
- The different types of activities they undertake, when, and for how long;
- The intensity (moderate- to vigorous) of their physical activity;
- Identifying ways that they can be more active.

Register with PHE Canada for free access to this resource.

Subject:
Education
Elementary Education
Health & Fitness
Health Education
Physical Education
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
GAP 4
GAP 5
GAP 6
Homework/Assignment
Lesson
Author:
PHE Canada
Date Added:
04/18/2023
Wellness: Stress & Anxiety
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An authentic guide to learning about stress, anxiety, depression, self-awareness and wellness. included are TED Talks, definitions, causes, symptoms, triggers and reflections.Included is information and quizzes about stress, anxiety and depression. Also includes a 20+ Slide presentation about the role of the brain!

Subject:
Wellness
Material Type:
GAP 4
GAP 5
GAP 6
Homework/Assignment
Author:
Kirsten Elder
Nichole Bredy
Date Added:
05/04/2023