Growing
Up
Resource
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Description
Many
grade six students take for granted the milestones they have passed on the
road to maturity, but most are curious about the challenges that lie ahead,
such as planning a career, learning the skills that are important in one's
culutre, dealing with changes in one's family, and stepping from
the moral certainty of childhood to dealing with doubt and ambiguity.
During this unit, the students tackle many interesting tasks that involve
discussing topics related to the theme, writing stories and journal entries,
and viewing and respresenting ideas visually.
Major Integrated
Resource (MIR)
Curriculum
Materials Centre
- Health.
Grades 6-8 [kit] / compiled by Curriculum Materials. -- [S.l. : s.n.],
c1985-1994.
17 books (various titles), 1 kit (containing 1 teacher guide, 1 poster, 1
pamphlet, 20 masters).
- Grade level:
Int - Jr.
Contents: Brilliant idiot : an autobiography of a dyslexic --
Communicable diseases -- Diet and health -- Drugs in society : are they
our suicide pill? -- Eat the right stuff -- Environmental diseases --
Hereditary diseases -- A kid's guide to the brain (2 c.) -- Learning
disorders -- Nutritional diseases -- The PAL smoking prevention program
(kit) -- Smell, the subtle sense -- Teen pregnancy : why are kids having
babies? -- Teen suicide : is it too painful to grow up? -- Think positive
: cope with stress -- The use of drugs.
Web
Resources
- How
to Design a Questionnaire - Practical advice on designing and writing
questionnaires.
- What
is Journal Writing - from the Online Learning Centre Web Site, this site
explains in detail this educational strategy.
- Journal
Writing Ideas - This is a teacher resource designed to be printed for
each student in the class. It contains starting ideas for journal writing
topics
- Journal
Writing Every Day - from the Education World Web Site comes the theory
and rationale for having students do journal writing on a daily basis. Included
are writing motivators that work from teachers who use them
- What
are the Signs of Stress?
- from the Geocities Web Site comes this set of three web pages outlining
what stress is, what are the signs and sources of stress, and finally, how
kids can learn to manage stress.
- Taking
Good Care of Ourselves
- This is an integrated English/Health unit. The teaching and learning activities
are designed for an Education Outside The Classroom programme. Students will,
through active participation, identify and use safe practices and basic risk
strategies in orienteering, cycling, water safety, and first aid.
- Character
Education Free Resources - This is an excellent teaching resource for
middle school. It contains discussion questions, writing assignments, and
student activitiesfor character education and life skills. Just click on a
topic.
- Creator's
Workshop
- from CreatorsWorkshop.com, this website was created for artists of all ages.
There is plenty of art instruction, information, and useful links for painting,
cartooning, and drawing!
- When
the Going Gets Rough
- Students reflect on what strategies they have used--and with what degree
of success--when confronted with frustration or difficulty in an assignment,
project, or activity.
- Finding
Common Ground
- Students will work in groups to find "win-win" solutions to common
middle school problems.
- Tools
for Tomorrow
- Students identify tools that might be used in a range of careers of the
future.
- Change
Over Time
- Students will write a personal narrative that is designed to help them reflect
on the nature and meaning of change in their lives.
- What
If - Students have the chance to change one aspect of their lives and
then imagine how things might have been different in this creative writing
assignment.
Related
Novel Sets Available from the Curriculum Materials Centre
- Throwing
Shadows
by E.L. Konigsburg - Five short stories in which young people gain a sense
of self.
- Dancing
Feathers by Christel Kleitsch - A young Ojibway girl must learn to
balance her people’s traditional values with those of the mainstream.
This sensitively written story will strike a chord with many youngsters caught
between two cultures
- Dare
by Marilyn Halvorson - This is an action story set in rural Alberta that provides
thought-provoking ideas about decisions of young teens. Dare is a tough street
kid in trouble at school and around town. When his grandmother dies, Dare
and his studious young brother are taken in by a teacher who invites them
to live at her ranch.
Do
you have a lesson plan, resource or web site you would like to contribute to
this page? Contact
us at: Online
Learning Centre
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