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THIS MONTH'S FEATURED RESOURCES:
Health
Resources K-5 - This site features sample
units from the Saskatchewan K-5 Health Education Curriculum and along
with additional resources”
Health Poster for June – - Trying
New Foods Together
Year
End Ideas / Projects
- Some
fun ways to finish out the year with your class! Find an idea or two
you can use in your classroom to make the end of the year fun &
educational for your students.
June Resources
- Lessons, projects,
and resources to bring June into the classroom! Ideas and resources
for end-of-the-year activities, summer reading resources and lists, and
Father's Day activities.
- Consider using
a digital projector to project the multimedia items for entire class
viewing (Flash movies, interactive tours, graphing activities, etc).
- Many of the
sites have printable resources for students and teacher facilitated
lesson plans.
- Send home website
addresses connected to your classroom topics in your newsletters
or list them on your classroom websites. Parents and students can
explore the sites from home.
- Consider assigning
websites for additional practice, a place to begin research, or
as an enrichment activity.
- Use online
resources as CARE partner activities.
Web Sites for
Teachers and Students
- Welcome to BrainsRule! Learn about your
Brain - An awesome interactive website for kids with games and
activities designed to learn all about the brain. The teacher section
has tons of ready made teacher lessons that can be linked to the
online student activities if desired.
- Bloom's Taxonomy Blooms Digitally
– An update to Bloom's revised
taxonomy to account for the new behaviours emerging as technology
advances.
- Media
Literacy 101: Power to the People - In world of infinite information,
there's a difference between being tech savvy and life savvy? A
discussion of why students need to become news literate.
- Character Education - Cultivating
knowledge for purposeful living, students learn through literature,
art, and humanities activities the benefits and consequences of
behavior.
- In persuasive writing, a writer
takes a position FOR or AGAINST an issue and writes to convince
the reader to believe or do something. Check out these great resources
for persuasive writing:
- Persuasive
Writing through Advertising - Students will interpret
their thoughts about various pictures, symbols, and slogans;
create a visual representation of various feelings and emotions
to infer what the advertiser could be selling the consumer;
and create an advertisement using the various learned techniques.
- Can
You Convince Me? Developing Persuasive Writing - Through a
classroom game and handouts, students are introduced to the
concepts of lobbying for something important to them (or that
they want) and making persuasive arguments. Students become
aware of the techniques used in persuasive oral arguments and
apply them to independent persuasive writing activities.
- Argument &
Persuasive Writing - Includes
lesson plans and activities for teaching argument and persuasive
writing -- helps develop Web research and persuasive writing
skills as they create original works.
- TEACH Magazine.com - An
accompaniment to the TEACH magazine, this Canadian website covers
issues and topics of interest to any K-12 educator. Check out two
of their resources:
- EcoKids - EcoKids is Earth
Day Canada's environmental education program for youth who care
about the planet.This site is full of games and activities about
the environment.
- NRDC’s Green Squad - Check out "The Green
Squad" to learn how to make your school safe for the environment,
and your health! Students can travel from room to room in a virtual
school, clicking on various items to discover which ones are harmful
to the environment.
- Studying Earth Science?
Earthquakes in the Last Week uses
Google Maps with data provided by the U.S. Geological Survey to
show earthquakes of magnitude 2.5 or greater in the past seven days.
Suggested activities: Study patterns, then correlate them with plate
tectonics and faults. Click the map markers for further information
regarding the specific quake.
- Math Videos for Math 10
to Math C30 -
- LearnAlberta - Search
this site for interactive activities at various grade level and
subject areas.
- End of the Year Slideshows
– Kick ‘em Up a Notch! - Describes
creative ideas for using digital photo tools to enhance end-of-school-year
projects.
If you would
like to contribute websites, lesson plans or ideas on how you have
used
online resources
in your classroom, send your ideas to byersj@spsd.sk.ca
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issues of newsletters at http://olc.spsd.sk.ca/news.htm
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