This resource is a continuum of Grade 6, Grade 7, and Grade 8 Visual Arts plans and lessons that align with the 2009 Arts Curriculum and provide a progression of skills. The continuum provides examples within four areas, perspective, drawing, clay and painting that work well with cross curricular subjects. The expectations have been partnered …
In this digital portfolio project, a cross-curricular digital portfolio template was created for students to use. Students are provided with information and activities to promote responsible digital citizenship. Students, practicing their meta-cognitive skills, selected and then reflected on the artifacts they chose to add to their own portfolios. The portfolio artifacts were created using Web …
This is a great resource to use to build Critical Literacy Skills. The resource focuses on teaching through and about media literacy, specifically PSA.
The GEMS Mystery Festival contains two units – one for primary and one for junior/intermediate. It allows students to examine a crime scene, and then collect and analyse evidence. The process the students go through allows facilitators to demonstrate the use of the 16 Habits of Mind to solve a crime. This is a great …
The completed project, Designing and implementing high-yield strategies in three-part math lessons (Grade 3), provides twelve lessons across the five strands of mathematics recognized in the Revised Ontario Curriculum (Grades 1-8) Mathematics (2005). The lessons that were created will permit students to engage in active learning situations and to demonstrate student-generated solutions when solving open-ended …
