Habits of Mind: GEMS Mystery Festival

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 analyze 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 resource to …

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Creating Interested, Inquiring, Independent Learners in Grade 10 Applied History

This is a series of lessons using differentiated instruction that focus on the neglected post-World War II unit (1945-1968 time period) in the Grade 10 Applied history course (CHC 2P). It includes active, hands-on lessons for the Cold War, the culture of the time period, a Think-Tac-Toe activity and Canadian Demographics Learning Centres. The Cold …

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Differentiated Instruction & Information Technology in CHC2D

This resource supports the delivery of Grade 10 History, Canadian World Studies curriculum.  The resource offers a selection of skills development activities and summative assessments that can be used throughout the CHC2D course.  Skills activities include summaries, bibliographies and précis tasks.  Summative tasks include a special focus on differentiated instruction and the use of current …

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Applying Science in Technology

This resource is a two to three week cross-curricular unit using the expectations of the SNC 2D1 Physics strand (optics) and TDJ 20 (technological design). Implicit in this unit is the flexibility of cross curricular teaching.  This unit provides a unit planner, with the culminating task with rubric to support and guide the learning.  Teaching …

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