"Now more than ever, families need ideas and resources to help manage learning at home. So we’ve created a new resource for you to share with your students’ parents or caregivers.
This Teachable Moment, a free eBook available for download now, offers an intro to Project Based Learning and 21 easy-to-implement, “follow the recipe” PBL projects, designed for children of all ages and capabilities.
These projects can be used to keep kids learning, growing, and discovering during this summer, while giving families the space and time needed to stay productive."

Get the eBook - Download it and get 21 ready to go PBL activities!

Your mission is to plan a 1 week adventure holiday for 12 math students anywhere in Saskatchewan. At the end of the project, you will have a chance to “sell” your adventure holiday to other students and hope they choose yours! You have $2500 a person.

Math Learning Goals:

· Add, subtract, multiply and divide decimals (N7.2)

· Compare and order fractions, decimals and mixed numbers (N7.3)

· Convert between fractions and terminating/repeating decimals (N7.3)

· Solve problems involving fractions, decimals and percents (N7.3, N7.4)

· Adding and Subtracting Integers (N7.6)

· Developing and Evaluating Expressions (P7.1, P7.2)

Replaces Kid's InfoBits for K to Grade 5 and features:

-A completely redesigned interface specifically for young students that encourages exploration through a visual topic tree
-Text-to-speech technology and on-demand article translation into over 20 languages
-Searching by Lexile range or finding content based on basic, intermediate, or advanced learning levels
-Over 16,600 indexed images, 600 videos, and 1,700 charts and graphs

To access Blackboard visit [www.edonline.sk.ca]www.edonline.sk.ca.

Your username is: firstname.lastname and your password is MMDD using the 4 digits of your birthday (for example, if your birthday is February 1st, you would enter 0201).

Once you are logged in, change your password. If you need to request a password reset follow this link www.edonline.sk.ca/webapps/blackboard/password.

All students have an Edonline account and use the same username/password convention as described for teachers above.

This is a link to the Teaching Tool and Support page to help you get started. https://tinyurl.com/SWSDBlackboard

If you have issues logging in, you can contact the Ministry of Education’s Support Desk at 1-866-933-8333 or email at networkservices@gov.sk.ca.

"This tool allows you to create presentations, infographics, video presentations, resumes, and more.

It includes many templates with access to photos, animations, and illustrations giving the user the ability to make any image or text interactive.

Content can be shared through a link or downloaded.

Teachers can make materials to share with students or other teachers, and students can use to build resumes or design a product for summative assessment." (AASL)

The gamification options look really good within this tool. You (or your students) can make a variety of different games to test content.

There are some great product choices in here to demonstrate learning.

This interactive notebook can walk teachers and students through the process of doing a Genius Hour project.

Students should download a copy and complete it with their own ideas.

Options are provided for I DO, WE DO and YOU DO for this very well-planned Grade 7/8 project.

This PBL leads students to study and analyze people and events connected with "English Civil War and Glorious Revolution". The PBL includes disclosures for the students to consider and assessments (formative and summative). A PowerPoint of pictures of the historically important people is attached.

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge Objectives (K) - The student will:

1. Know that all nations must determine how to use their available human and material resources and that determination will involve choices among perceived/real demands on those resources.
2. Know that scarcity is the relationship that occurs because the unlimited wants exceeds the limited resources available to meet those wants.
3. Know that major events/situations such as wars will affect the resources a nation has available and will influence how those resources are used.
4. Know that distinct populations will seek to have control over the decision making process which affect their lives.
5. Know that groups seeking to fulfill their agendas have a number of alternative methods to achieve those agendas including the use of violent and nonviolent tactics.
6. Know that nations will sometimes consider certain geographic regions, including other nations, as being strategic importance to their interests and will seek to have a preponderance of influence over that region.
7. Know that every society has to establish some fundamental criteria that can be used to justify the allocation of supreme power within that society to certain individual or groups.

This production is a stop animation video that depicts the history of land settlement in western Canada in the 1800s. The entire video was written and produced by my grade 3/4 students at Lucky Lake School. We studied the history, then they created the storyboard and wrote the script. All of the scenes were flimed with iPads on three different sets with students in the shop. I did the editing and added the sound and their prerecorded narration. All of the props where hand made from scratch or recycled materials. The entire project took one month to complete.

This is an excellent example of Project Based Learning in action!

Science Background: Light travels in straight lines, and this activity allows students to observe light and think critically about how they experience light in their lives. A common misconception for students is that the light comes from their eyes to light up the object, so drawing rays as arrowheads that show the direction of the light is a key concept.
Materials: index cards, ruler, coloured markers or pencils, hole punch, sticky tack, drinking straw, flashlight or ray box, beaker or glass, water

Science Background: Sound waves behave in the same way as light and water waves. This activity allows students to “see” sound.
Materials: plastic wrap, small yogurt container, elastic band, 1mL salt, tuning fork, water

"In this e-mail based course, you will explore essential aspects of project-based learning design while also considering strategies for creating accessible and equitable online project-based learning experiences.

This course culminates in you creating an outline and planner to design and facilitate PBL in online spaces and for distance-learning."

This course is free and email based.
It should take teachers 4-10 hours to complete.

Come out ready to get your PBL rolling!

The 5-Step Process for Authentic Learning Experiences That Hit Standards and Your Curriculum

"This high quality PBL unit – designed for English, math, and science – invites students and teachers to explore solutions for hunger and malnutrition around the world. For every piece of artwork submitted from the project, the Bezos Family Foundation will donate $3 (up to $700,000) to youth-focused nutrition programs."

You will have to provide your information to download the project.

You could use this project to participate in the Hunger Challenge. https://www.studentsrebuild.org/challenges/hunger

Science Background:
• Liquids have characteristic properties based on the molecules they are made of.
• As different molecules are combined they can have different properties.
• Temperature can impact molecules.
• Physical changes of materials
Materials: Ice Cubes, 1 cup half and half, 1/2 cup Kosher salt, 2 tablespoons sugar, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract, 1 pint-size ziplock bag, 1 gallon-size ziplock bag, Any of your favorite ice cream mixins

Science Background:

A food chain is a simplified way to show the relationship of organisms that feed on each other. It’s helpful to classify animals in a simple food chain by what they eat, or where they get their energy.

Green plants, called producers, form the basis of the aquatic food chain. They get their energy from the sun and make their own food through photosynthesis. In the Great Lakes, producers can be microscopic phytoplankton (plant plankton), algae, aquatic plants like Elodea, or plants like cattails that emerge from the water’s surface.

Herbivores, such as ducks, small fish and many species of zooplankton (animal plankton) eat plants. Carnivores (meat eaters) eat other animals and can be small (e.g., frog) or large (e.g., lake trout). Omnivores are animals (including humans) that eat both plants and animals. Each is an important part of the food chain.

In reality, food chains overlap at many points — because animals often feed on multiple species — forming complex food webs. Food web diagrams depict all feeding interactions among species in real communities. These complex diagrams often appear as intricate spider webs connecting the species.

This lesson demonstrates that changes in one part of a food chain or web may affect other parts, resulting in impacts on carnivores, herbivores, and eventually on producers. An example of this might be the harmful effects of pollution. The point that should be made is that when something disrupts a food web, humans should try to understand and minimize the disturbance. Students should also come to recognize that humans, too, are part of this complex web of life.

Youth who participate in the art and essay stream can submit an art piece, essay, or other representation to express their vision of a reconciled Canada and what they hope others will learn from their submission.

Youth who participate in the project stream are asked to go one step further and submit a plan on how their project will address Reconciliation in their community or school.

Youth from select projects in both streams will be invited to participate in virtual leadership training exercises.

At the end of the school year, a national celebration will be held to honour up to twelve projects from the art and essay stream and up to fifteen projects from the project stream.

"I’ve listed 100+ PBL ideas below to help get you started on the project-based learning journey. The ideas below that are hyperlinked will send you to the project that is already developed. Those that are not yet hyperlinked are some of our ideas for future projects. I can’t wait to share them out when they are finished. In the meantime, use them to get inspired and give you some ideas to start PBL with your students."

Project ideas are organized by Education Level, and the High School ideas are further organized by subject.

The following PPT talks about scheduling, co-teaching, choice boards, transfer of responsibility, PBL, project planning, and self-directed time at Kenaston school. (2018-2019 mentor reflection)