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Leaf People ~ Art Examples
Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert inspires a class nature walk. What a wonderful opportunity to collect leaves and more to create our own Leaf People characters for our story.
Federal Election Links
Check out what parties have to say about the issues! Then learn what students wants from them. The Destiny Collection has a variety of resources to review from how elections work to making politicians accountable. Click on the image to take you to these links.
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Orange Shirt Day – Phyllis’ Story
Orange Shirt Day is a legacy of the St. Joseph Mission residential school commemoration event held in Williams Lake in the spring of 2013. It grew out of Phyllis’s account of losing her shiny new orange shirt on her first day of school at the Mission, and it has become an opportunity to keep the discussion on all aspects of residential schools happening annually. To read more, visit http://www.orangeshirtday.org
Phyllis’ Story
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The Lorax ~ a Banned Book
The Lorax was banned in Laytonville, California in 1989 from a local public school. The Lorax was banned because it portrays the foresting industry in an arguable negative way. Some people felt that this book was persuading children to be against logging.
There are many websites, youtube videos, and lesson plan ideas for our theme. For starters, here is one website: https://www.plt.org/educator-tips/the-lorax-lesson-plans to help get you going if you need a starting point.
Here is a site not specific to the Lorax movie but resources centered on environment that is worth reviewing: https://www.hctfeducation.ca/lessons-more/ (BC resource)
- Use The Lorax Writing Prompts as a springboard for facilitating a discussion on the topics in The Lorax.
- Make gluppity glup and schloppity schlop and don’t forget the building materials. {from Learn Play Imagine}
- Make your own whisper-ma-phone from Science Sparks plus lots of other ideas that pair well with The Lorax.
- Lemon Lime Adventures has several science ideas for The Lorax. I particularly like the Truffula Tree Cutters engineered with Lego and the planting seeds projects.
Also check out The Lorax Project from Seussville for conservation ideas, games, and activities.
Finally, here is the original movie obtained from Youtube (25 min long).
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Animals and their Babies
- https://www.turtlediary.com/game/farm-animals.html
- https://www.turtlediary.com/games/animals.html
- https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/word-games/farm-animals
- https://matchthememory.com/motherbaby
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Pitches ~ Dragon’s Den
What makes a stellar Dragon’s Den Pitch? View some of the samples below and identify what would be needed to make your pitch selected for the class project?
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Unpacking Key Search Terms
Grade 7 students create word maps to break down the research problem of making book bags environmentally viable.
Div 1 Making Triangles with Spheros
Aston’s code for controlling a sphero to draw a triangle. Notice the angles he uses to direct the sphero. Does it start and stop at the same point?
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