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This is a collection of resources to teach Creativity including using imagination, making connections, asking questions and taking creative risks.

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Nutrien WonderHub - Discovery Museum

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Nutrien WonderHub - Discovery Museum

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Formerly the Children's Discovery Museum - The Nutrien Wonderhub brings children and families together to create, learn, play, and explore without boundaries.

Nutrien Wonderhub is a not-for-profit organization that fosters creativity, curiosity, and a lifelong love of learning in children and their grown-ups through hands-on exhibits, programming, and outreach. We support intergenerational play and independent discovery. The museum is a safe space for children of all backgrounds and abilities to explore, experiment, and interact with the natural and built world. The Museum includes a large variety of exhibits for children to explore.

Subject:: Agriculture Studies; Arts Education; Computer & Digital Technologies; Health & Fitness; Indigenous Perspectives; Physical Education; Science; Wellness
Material Type:: GAP 4
Author:: Kira Toews
Date Added:: 05/05/2023

Offline Choice Boards

Offline Choice Boards

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If teachers or parents are looking for ways to engage students in offline learning activities at home, check out this choice board. It is composed of activities that encourage students to think critically and creatively, document their learning, reflect on these unconventional learning experiences, and share what they’ve worked on with their peers.

Subject:: Arts Education; Education; English Language Arts; Science
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Homework/Assignment
Author:: Catlin Tucker
Date Added:: 04/22/2020

PAA 7-12: Cupcake Color Wheel

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PAA 7-12: Cupcake Color Wheel

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The Cupcake Color Wheel activity provides a meaningful, memorable way for students to study Color Theory. Used in my Practical and Applied Arts 10- Survey class, it is part of the Interior Design module. Through this activity, students learn color terminology, mixing colors, and gain knowledge and understanding in the concepts of complementary colors, values, and chroma. If this activity is completed as part of a Food Studies class, it provides students an opportunity to gain knowledge and skills in the kitchen basics, and in the preparation of cakes and frostings.

Subject:: Arts Education; Design Studies; Food Studies; Interior Design; Practical & Applied Arts
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Homework/Assignment
Date Added:: 09/09/2018

Photography Courses - CK-12 Foundation

Photography Courses - CK-12 Foundation

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Course 1 - Digital Imaging 1 - Digital Photography Basics
Course 2 - Digital Imaging 2 - Image Editing
Course 3 - LKSD Digital Photography

Subject:: Photography; Practical & Applied Arts
Material Type:: Lesson; Module; Unit of Study
Author:: ck12.org
Date Added:: 12/21/2023

Physical Education 8 - Critical Thinking and Creativity in Designing a Personal Skill Related Fitness Plan

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Physical Education 8 - Critical Thinking and Creativity in Designing a Personal Skill Related Fitness Plan

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My plan for my 21st century competency dealt with critical thinking and creativity in designing a personal skill related fitness plan in my Physical Education 8 class. The assignment I had the students complete was a personal plan in an area, of a sport or activity, that they struggled in. Students were encouraged to develop skills in an activity or sport they enjoyed. This was determined in order to develop a physical education program that was designed for their needs. In order to develop this skill plan, students were taught about the components of skill related fitness, different types of muscle fibers, and different planning methods (i.e. F.I.T.T.) in class one. They were then given two classes to work on their plan. Throughout the year, they were given class time to work on their own plans and practice what they had put down on paper.

Subject:: Health & Fitness; Physical Education
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Homework/Assignment
Date Added:: 09/12/2018

Podcasting Can Work in Any Subject

Podcasting Can Work in Any Subject

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Podcasting is a powerful way for students to share their voice with the world. Along the way, they learn to communicate, engage in critical thinking, and go through the design process as they ultimately publish their work to an authentic audience.
This site offers 20 creative ideas for podcasts you can do with your students.

Subject:: Computer & Digital Technologies; Education; English Language Arts; Math; Practical & Applied Arts; Science; Social Studies
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Homework/Assignment; Podcast
Author:: John Spencer
Date Added:: 01/12/2022

Project Based Learning Summit

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Project Based Learning Summit

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This is a collection of excellent webinars from the online Project Based Learning Summit.

Subject:: Education
Material Type:: Teaching/Learning Strategy
Date Added:: 05/22/2020

Question Creation Chart (QC 2 )

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Question Creation Chart (QC 2 )

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What is a Question Creation Chart (QC2)?
The Question Creation Chart (also known as a Q-Chart or Q-Matrix) provides students with a framework for developing a range of personally meaningful questions, encompassing both close-ended factual questions and open-ended, divergent questions. (Adapted from Weiderhold, 1997).

Why use it?
To provide students with a framework for creating their own divergent and convergent questions on a specific topic.
To encourage students to think deeply about a topic.
To help students strengthen their understanding and comprehension of a topic.
To stimulate students’ prior knowledge about a topic.
To collect information about students’ knowledge and understanding of a topic.

Subject:: Arts Education; Career & Work Exploration; Education; English Language Arts; Health & Fitness; Health Education; Language Education; Math; Practical & Applied Arts; Science; Social Studies
Material Type:: Teaching/Learning Strategy
Provider:: Let's Talk Science
Author:: CurioCity
Date Added:: 01/21/2019

Questioning Strategies

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Questioning Strategies

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Materials to develop questioning strategies while reading.

Subject:: English Language Arts
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Homework/Assignment; Teaching/Learning Strategy
Date Added:: 10/14/2018

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Recycled Art

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In small groups, students were to create a piece of art out of
recycled materials. Students were given creative freedom to design, plan,
and build their projects.

Subject:: Arts Education
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Date Added:: 09/18/2018

Resiliency Thought Bubbles

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Resiliency Thought Bubbles

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The Resiliency Thought Bubbles project provides an opportunity for students to
demonstrate their knowledge of Microsoft Word. The assignment requires students to
use critical thinking and creativity in writing their own original idea that demonstrates
both Fixed Mindset and Resiliency. Students were shown a series of videos that
demonstrate the meaning of Resiliency then challenged to use critical thinking when
they wrote their own examples. Finally, I selected one student example from each of my
six PAA Multimedia classes and created a bulletin board display; the display includes a
Brain illustration that was a collaborative and creative endeavor between a grade ten
student and a grade twelve student.

Subject:: Practical & Applied Arts
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Date Added:: 09/18/2018

Rube Goldberg Assignment for 21st Century Skill Development

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Rube Goldberg Assignment for 21st Century Skill Development

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Rube Goldberg machines are a fun and innovative way to integrate 21st century skills into your math, science, STEM or design learning class.
Rube Goldberg machines involve using a series of complex steps to do a simple task.
Students first begin reflecting on what 21st century skills they will need to pull this activity off. Then they must make an effective plan as a group before they are able to gather their materials and build. The plan can (and likely should!) change as they work and that is fine. Students should reflect on their 21st century skills daily to give them an opportunity to regroup and refocus as needed.
This is really a fun and valuable activity! This version was done a 7/8 Math class.
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Source: www.pxleyes.com
Title : rube goldberg photoshop contest (4530), pictures page 1 – pxleyes
Dimension : 1500 x 1230
File Type : JPG/JPEG

Subject:: Computer Science; Design Studies; Education; Math; Practical & Applied Arts; Science
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Assessment; Homework/Assignment
Date Added:: 09/10/2018

‎ScratchJr

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ScratchJr is an app that is available through Apple (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id895485086?ign-mpt=uo%3D4) or Google Play (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.scratchjr.android).

With ScratchJr, young children (ages 5-7) learn important new skills as they program their own interactive stories and games.

By snapping together graphical programming blocks, children can make characters move, jump, dance, and sing. In the process, children learn to solve problems, design projects, and express themselves creatively on the computer. They also use math and language in a meaningful and motivating context, supporting the development of early-childhood numeracy and literacy. With ScratchJr, children don’t just learn to code, they code to learn.

Subject:: Education; Educational Technology
Material Type:: Game
Author:: Scratch; Scratch Foundation
Date Added:: 04/29/2021

Simple Machines and Modern Day Engineering Analogies

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Simple Machines and Modern Day Engineering Analogies

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Students apply the mechanical advantages and problem-solving capabilities of six types of simple machines (wedge, wheel and axle, lever, inclined plane, screw, pulley) as they discuss modern structures in the spirit of the engineers and builders of the great pyramids. While learning the steps of the engineering design process, students practice teamwork, creativity and problem solving.

Subject:: Physics; Science
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Lesson
Provider:: TeachEngineering
Provider Set:: TeachEngineering
Author:: Brett S. Ellison; Denise Carlson; Jacquelyn Sullivan; Lawrence E. Carlson; Malinda Schaefer Zarske
Date Added:: 09/18/2014

Skills Canada Saskatchewan

Skills Canada Saskatchewan

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"Skills Canada Saskatchewan is a not-for-profit Provincial Organization that promotes skilled trades and technologies to young people in Saskatchewan."

This site has a wealth of information about skills and tech and the trades in SK.

*Skills for success - learn about the skills you need for success - videos
*Skills competitions - find skills competitions
*Skills Profiles - learn about construction, employment, IT, manufacturing & engineering, services and transportation skills
*Programs - trade & tech days, National Skilled Trade and Tech Week

Subject:: Animation; Autobody; Business; Career & Work Exploration; Commercial Cooking; Computer & Digital Technologies; Construction & Carpentry; Education; Educational Technology; Electrical & Electronics; English Language Arts; Food Studies; Graphic Arts; Information Processing; Math; Mechanical & Automotive; Photography; Practical & Applied Arts; Robotics & Automation; Welding
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Author:: Skills Canada Saskatchewan
Date Added:: 11/28/2023

Smithsonian Learning Lab

Smithsonian Learning Lab

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The Smithsonian Learning Lab puts the treasures of the world's largest museum, education, and research complex within reach. The Lab is a free, interactive platform for discovering millions of authentic digital resources, creating content with online tools, and sharing in the Smithsonian's expansive community of knowledge and learning.

Use the search tool to discover lots of resources on endless topics. The sky's the limit!

Subject:: Arts Education; Biology; Chemistry; Computer Science; Earth Science; Education; English Language Arts; Environmental Science; Geography; Health & Fitness; Health Education; Health Science; History; Math; Physical Science; Physics; Science; Social Studies
Material Type:: GAP 4; GAP 5; GAP 6
Author:: Smithsonian Institute; Smithsonian Learning Lab
Date Added:: 03/04/2019

‎Snapseed - Photo Editing App

‎Snapseed - Photo Editing App

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Available for both iOS and Android: (copy and paste url into your device browser)
- Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/snapseed/id439438619
- Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.niksoftware.snapseed&hl=en_CA&gl=US

Snapseed is a free photo-editing app where you can take photos in the app and edit them, or edit photos already in your camera roll.. It includes a large number of preset filters to apply to your photos, but there are also 29 tools you can use to apply precise and fine-tuned effects, such as tune, curves, crop, brush, perspective, HDR scape, vintage, retro lux, portrait, lens blur, frames, vignette, text, and more. You can also save a combination of edits as a particular "look" that you can then easily apply in one tap to other photos.

There are built-in tutorials that quickly show you how to achieve certain looks, from vignettes to vintage postcards. Each one is very short, listing the tools that are used in the tutorial, then going through what you need to do with step-by-step visual examples.

One particularly handy aspect of Snapseed is how easy it is to undo and revise work. At any time, you can undo or change any edits made so far, allowing you to access each edit separately. Then, once you're done with your image, you can share it, open it in another app, export it (creating a copy with permanent changes), or save it, which saves the image along with its edits that you can still undo/change in the future.

Subject:: Photography; Practical & Applied Arts
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Author:: Google Play; Apple
Date Added:: 06/07/2022

Social Studies 6: Folkfest Project

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Social Studies 6: Folkfest Project

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Folkfest is an annual event linked to curricular outcomes for Grade 6. Goals are to improve and refine Folkfest components with the use of “Student Showcase” and various professional development opportunities. Students will be guided into various uses of technology to display and showcase their projects.

Subject:: Social Studies
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Homework/Assignment
Date Added:: 09/13/2018

Structure Building- Cooperative and Collaborative Learning/ Shadow Puppet Creation

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Structure Building- Cooperative and Collaborative Learning/ Shadow Puppet Creation

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Activity- 1. Divide the students into groups. Introduce action plan and materials available for use to create the strongest and tallest structure. 2. Each group has to draw and label a blueprint of their plan/design. 3. Create a rubric with students to evaluate their structures. 4. Fascilitate and ask each group questions – What are you using in your design to create strength and stability.(We used this to create a shadow puppet on the ipads that demonstrated their learning.) Assessment 5. Students will test their structures strength using textbooks. Video tape. (Have textbooks readily available) **While presenting to each group in front of the class. 6. Students collaboratively created a Shadow Puppet, designed a dialogue together, and share their learning about structures. 7. Parents were engaged as we showcased our learning at Student Led Conferences on our Smartboard.

Subject:: Science
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Homework/Assignment
Date Added:: 09/07/2018

Tales of creativity and play

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Tales of creativity and play

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At the 2008 Serious Play conference, designer Tim Brown talks about the powerful relationship between creative thinking and play -- with many examples you can try at home (and one that maybe you shouldn't). Tim Brown is the CEO of the "innovation and design" firm IDEO--taking an approach to design that digs deeper than the surface

Subject:: Education
Material Type:: Teaching/Learning Strategy
Provider:: TED
Date Added:: 01/05/2008