Canada is a vast and rugged land. From north to south it spans more than half the Northern Hemisphere.
- Subject:
- Education
- Elementary Education
- Material Type:
- Open Access Asset
- Author:
- National Geographic
- Date Added:
- 11/20/2024
This collection houses assets (or resources) from Saskatchewan Distance Learning Centre's Grade 8 ELA course.
Canada is a vast and rugged land. From north to south it spans more than half the Northern Hemisphere.
Each year, Indspire supports thousands of Indigenous students with reaching their educational
goals. A strong relationship exists between educational attainment and career success.
Therefore, understanding education as an integral part of career transition allows for the
creation of appropriate supports. With these supports, more students can be well prepared to
successfully transition into their careers of choice. Through inspiring Indigenous education and
achievement, Indspire can positively influence these students’ socioeconomic outcomes. To
support them in this journey, Indspire is interested in understanding Indigenous student
experiences in achieving career aspirations and to identify what supports they require for
success in the school-to-work transition. This helps identify areas to strengthen for Indspire’s
Rivers to Success (R2S) Indigenous Mentorship program, as well as for other organizations
looking to provide relevant support for Indigenous career success.
Indspire invests in educational achievement to support the long-term benefit of Indigenous
people, their communities, and Canada. The negative impacts of colonization have a direct
relation to the overrepresentation of Indigenous people experiencing poverty and
unemployment (MacKinnon, 2015). With the growing number of Indigenous students entering
post-secondary education and the workforce, it is a crucial time to ensure there is support for
achieving their full potential (MacKinnon, 2015). Indigenous students will provide an
increasingly significant source of labour that helps enrich Canada and work towards a path to
reconciliation. This is important for closing existing socioeconomic gaps and contributing to a
more equitable society where both Indigenous and non-Indigenous worldviews are valued in
education and the workplace.
Canada, coast to coast, is a huge country—and one filled with stunning scenery.
Take the 3 career quizzes to find out what occupations may be a good fit for you. These quizzes will help you identify possible career paths based on what you like or are good at.
PlaySport is an online activity-based resource designed to maximize the fun, inclusion, participation, and success of everyone when building their physical literacy.
PlaySport helps children and youth develop an understanding of and competency with skills and strategies associated with physical activities and a wide range of games and sports. The activities in PlaySport can provide experiences for participants to help them build physical literacy and skills for lifelong healthy, active living.
PlaySport uses the Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) approach. It has been designed for use in physical education settings, but can be adapted for use in other settings (e.g., intramural, recreation, community, or after-school programs) provided appropriate measures to adhere to the safety criteria within the activities are implemented.
Interactive website for generating a resume.
First published in 2006, Saskatchewan's Top Employers is an annual competition organized by the editors of Canada's Top 100 Employers. Saskatchewan's Top Employers. This special designation recognizes the Saskatchewan employers that lead their industries in offering exceptional places to work. This year's winners were announced on March 12, 2024, in a special magazine published in the Regina Leader-Post and Saskatoon StarPhoenix. Read the press release issued the same day for more background on this year's competition.
Are you a part of a cultural landscape? The Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 invited visitors to find out by exploring the temporary exhibition Shaping Canada: Exploring Our Cultural Landscapes. Visitors discovered the ways groups and individuals maintain and produce their cultural identities in Canada.
The exhibition featured contemporary portrait photography by Naomi Harris, archival images, oral histories, artifacts and visitors’ participation. It highlighted Canada’s cultural landscapes through seven case studies around key ideas like family, faith, food, recreation and neighbourhood. The result showed aspects of how people create, maintain and experience cultural landscapes across Canada.
Looking to develop, test, or improve skills that can help you get a job, progress in your current role or change jobs? Our Skills for Success program helps you do just that! Below you’ll find more information about what these skills are, along with workbooks, assessments, booklets, and much more! These tools are designed for students and teachers to use in their classes.
Essential Skills are the skills that people need for work, learning and life. These skills are used in the community and the workplace. They are used in different forms and at different levels of complexity depending on the activity. These skills provide the foundation for learning all other skills and enable people to better prepare for, get and keep a job. These skills help workers adapt to, and succeed in, changing workplaces. For further explanation of essential skills, refer to http://skillscompetencescanada.com/en/essential-skills/what-are-the-nine-essential-skills/.
This method enables students to master the skills that are essential if they are to become competent writers. In turn, those skills equip students to become better readers, to communicate more effectively in writing and speaking, and most importantly, to elevate their thinking.
The Hochman Method is a set of specific writing strategies that teachers use in every grade and in all subjects, including ELA, social studies, science, world languages, and math.
Select "Resources" from the top menu to find many excellent supports. You will need to sign up to access the resources, but the account is free!
Please note that Writing Revolution 2.0 is now available and includes - templates, examples, posters and teaching resources. Different PD options are also available to gain access to the full resource library (but there are still many great free resources that just require a free account).
Students actively learn about their interests, skills, passions, and feelings, and document what they discover about themselves in pictures, videos, and journals.