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Mental Health and The Arts (A BAC and Understand Us Workshop)
A Balfour Arts Collective Workshop Afternoon with Jim Demeray Click here to see the lesson plan! On October 24th, 2018 student in the Balfour Arts Collective spent an afternoon learning about positive mental health. Together with Jim Demeray we spent half of the afternoon learning about strategies for improving your mental health. As we spoke … More Mental Health and The Arts (A BAC and Understand Us Workshop)
Tedx Balfour ELA AP30
In this English Language Arts AP30 unit the students have been invited to participate in their own Tedx inspired talk. The theme of the event and the topics of their inquiry based research project is passion. Each student has been challenged to write a paper that speaks to something they are passionate about. As part … More Tedx Balfour ELA AP30
This Is Me: Symbolic Self-Portrait
As we start to read through the novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime students are going to be focusing on the theme of Identity. Not only will we be learning about Christopher’s identity but we will be exploring our own identity as well. In this exercise we will start to explore … More This Is Me: Symbolic Self-Portrait
ELA 20- Moving Forward Sample Unit
Download PDF click here: ELA 20 Moving Forward Unit Plan Unit Rationale: ELA 20 is divided into two units the first is Starting Out- Beginning and Becoming. The Second is Moving Forward- Establishing and Realizing. We have chosen to address the second unit in this plan. We have chosen to focus on this unit because we … More ELA 20- Moving Forward Sample Unit
ELA B30- Satire & Parody (3 Week Inquiry Unit)
Click to download PDF: ELA B30- Social Criticism (Satire & Parody) Unit Rationale: ELA B30 is divided into two units the first is The Search for Self the second is The Social Experience. I have chosen to address the second unit in this plan. I have chosen to focus on this unit because I believe this … More ELA B30- Satire & Parody (3 Week Inquiry Unit)
ECS 200: CBSL Video Reflection
The video below is a summary of the experience Robyn and I had for our ECS 200 CBSL experience:
ECS 210 Digital Personal Narrative
Through out ECS 210 we learned about and experienced curriculum in a multitude of ways this short video talks about my learning and experiences in response to understanding and struggles with curriculum as a consumer, producer and critic of the Saskatchewan K-12 curriculum.
PDP Goals- Week 8
Week 8- Reflection
Before: As we prepared for this week Anne and I debated wether we would have enough time to actually create an authentic student driven inquiry lesson. The more we thought about it the more we realized that we might have to prompt them a little more than in an actual inquiry unit. So we decided … More Week 8- Reflection
