I really enjoyed creating this video while travelling to visit family in Victoria. One of the curricular goals in my Social Studies class is to have students make ethical judgements about historical events, and I thought it would be interesting to introduce students to the repatriation efforts going on at …
Why give up on foraging? Beginning the Agricultural Revolution Learning Goals: Students will be able to discuss ways that technological and social innovations associated with agriculture contributed to the rise of complex civilizations.. Students will be able to analyze how the innovation of agriculture marked a human response to changing …
The Peloponnesian Wars were fought between the Greek city-states of Athens and Sparta, and their allies, and it lasted from 431 BCE to 404 BCE. As we have learned about in class, these two city states went all out to defeat one another, and it was only intervention from the …
For this activity I created a five minute synopsis of the conquests of Alexander of Macedon, and combined it with a short musical introduction that I made several years ago for my Youtube channel. My students like my bad dad jokes so several years ago I made a series of …
Grade 8 English Lesson: Accessing Poetry Learning Outcomes: Students will explore how language and text can be a source of creativity and joy. **NOTE: THIS ACTIVITY HAS BEEN MODIFIED IN ORDER TO BETTER FIT THE OBJECTIVES OF MY PORTFOLIO ASSIGNMENT** What makes a piece of writing appealing? Poems, songs, quotes, …
In Social Studies 7 I spend quite a bit of time on two different curricular outcomes: 1) developing research skills like note-taking strategies and 2) examining the neolithic revolution and the rise of agriculture. I like to teach students how to create multi-media notes that incorporate both visuals and text. …
Description of the student demographic and learning context: This project is designed to take place in a Grade 8 English class in a British Columbian Independent School. Each class would consist of approximately 18-20 students, all of whom would have access to their own device with a keyboard, and access …
Why our school? Podcasting Assignment Background: Over the past few years our market research indicates that prospective families value “future readiness” as a top priority for their students. Families want their students to thrive in the competitive, digital world that they will graduate into. Our research also shows that families …
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