A collection of resources to teach students the 21st century skills they need to be successful in life!
This resource contains 9 lessons to get Genius Hour off the ground in your classroom.
This is a safe way to give Genius Hour a try The kids just simply start by picking 4 areas of interest, narrowing their choice down, using a think tank to help solve problems and doing a very basic PowerPoint on their topic choice. THEN you can go for it and actually have them do it when you feel ready!
Genius Hour Rubric
Conferencing with kids during Genius Hour is a game changer. Use this editable template (I suggest kids even fill it out before they meet you if they are capable) to help students project plan and meet their deadlines! This build in accountability to Genius Hour.
Genius Hour or Personalized Learning 21st Century Skill Reflection.
The Only Free Global Stock Game!
Trade Stocks, Commodities, and Currencies.
A global stock game needs to support a global audience!
All of the portfolio simulation functions are available in English, French, Spanish, Hungarian, Polish, Mandarin Chinese, Greek, and Czech. More languages coming soon!
Goal Setting 21st Century SECRET Skills PeBL
The SECRET of my Success has students set an academic or behaviour goal and make a plan to achieve it.
This amazing program has gamified kindness! This is a game for people who want to: Changing the world! Help others! Have fun!
The Good Card is a real physical card made from recycled plastic which gives you access in The Good Cards app.
Scan the card with the mobile app (beta version) and you will be sent on a mission to do something good for someone else.
Do some good today!
You can get the app for this in the app store as well!
Did you know that you can access Google services, like Gmail, Google Docs and YouTube, from one account? Creating a Google Account simply allows you to manage and customize settings for the Google apps and services you use. You can even set up an iGoogle home page to view, log in or open your favorite Google services all from one convenient spot.
Google's web browser Chrome is simple, safe and fun to use. Learn why.
Google Docs is a free, cloud-based suite of tools for creating documents, spreadsheets, presentations and more. This tutorial will cover the Documents application in Google Docs, in addition to showing you how to access and store your Docs from Google Drive.
Get to know Google's cloud-based file storage and document creation services Google Drive and Google Docs.
Learn how to use the free Spreadsheets application from Google Docs and Drive.
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?
Educational Scavenger Hunts for the 21st Century!
This app helps you facilitate scavenger hunts, where teams of students compete to find items you assign (in the physical world), then take photo evidence at each point and post it on the app. The app then keeps track of team points so you know which team won by the end.
This tool could be used for teams to complete assessments, or to provide feedback and capture an snapshot of their current level of understanding of the material. Students could also CREATE these for summative assessments to share with their peers if centered around a topic of study in the classroom.
Leveled rubrics for 21st Century SECRET skills. Rubrics could be used with grades K to 2.
It should be noted that these rubrics will be much more meaningful if you have your class build their own in their own words, simply using these as a guideline.
This is a six week plan to introduce 21st century skills to younger students using the SECRET framework. Please note you will want to use the SECRET Posters and Book List also in the resource bank. (They are also attached here for ease.)
Leveled rubrics for 21st Century SECRET skills. Rubrics could be used with grades 2 to 5.
It should be noted that these rubrics will be much more meaningful if you have your class build their own in their own words, simply using these as a guideline.
TWENTY amazing lessons to teach computer science to Grades 3 to 5.
The curriculum is organized into 5 units: sequence, events, Makey Makey, loops and final project.
This fabulous resource has everything you need to get started coding and computer science with your students TODAY!
Green is the starting level - you can progress to Blue (Level 2) once you complete this level, and then onto Purple (Level 3). These resources are also in the bank or available using the tabs along the top of the website.