ABC Books - There are so many variations possible on this concept. At the K level, consider each child completing one page for a class book.

Some resources to get you started:

These books can be as complicated or as simple as your grade level allows. Use your imagination.

• Refer to Saskatoon Words for ABC Books if you would like to do an alphabet book with your students.
• View our online Alphabet Book about the History of Saskatoon. PowerPoint Presentation.
• Saskatoon ABC Crossword Puzzle available for online completion or as a printable document.
• Saskatoon Neighbourhoods - Word Search

Interviewing: As part of the Genealogy Lesson, students must plan and partake in interviews for the sake of learning family stories.

Resource Based Learning: incorporate resources, and locational and research skills in appropriate lessons.

Review what the students know about their own families. Consider size, parents, siblings, ages, housing, and property (yard or farm). They can compare their family of present day with their families of the past.

Interviewing: As part of the Genealogy Lesson, students must plan and partake in interviews for the sake of learning family stories.

Resource Based Learning: incorporate resources, and locational and research skills in appropriate lessons.

Review what the students know about their own families. Consider size, parents, siblings, ages, housing, and property (yard or farm). They can compare their family of present day with their families of the past.

THE SENTINEL was Saskatoon's first newspaper. Using these word TEMPLATE for THE SENTINEL NEWSPAPER, let your students publish various stories about Saskatoon's early years. Use the extensive photo gallery from Celebrating Saskatchewan's Heritage Website, our the Gallery from the Saskatoon100.ca website. Access our pre designed word searches and crosswords for inserting into your paper. Newsletter / Newspaper Resource Page

Survival Theme Resources
Sample Unit
Pushed to the Limit: Surviving Life's Challenges (Grade 7)

Surviving Pioneer Times - This document features Saskatoon related resources that examine the theme of survival from the perspectives of Saskatoon people.

Includes the journal of a 1903 Barr Colonist, downloadable History Carved in Stone Movie which examines the lives of the pioneers buried in the Nutana Cemetery, Articles on Dust Storms, Prairie Fires, Downloadable Home Sweet Home Movie (examines living conditions),Spanish Flu Epidemic, Struggle of Pioneer Women, Photo Galleries and much more. Easily integrated into any planned unit on Survival.

Survival Wordseach