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A Teacher’s Guide to “Feathers and Fools” by Mem Fox

Students first review the ideas of tolerance and celebrating differences and then listen to Feathers and Fools, in which a group of peacocks and swans are afraid of each other because of their differences. Students then use criteria to identify the most important lesson in the story and justify thei…
Subjects: English/Language Arts
Grades: 2, 3
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Creating effective inquiry questions

Students learn a strategy to create effective inquiry questions to learn about people, events, and places in a community. Students begin by learning what effective inquiry questions are and how they can be used to learn more about local histories. Students use criteria to identify and create effecti…
Subjects: Social Studies, History
Grades: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
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What is the optimal position for a school rooftop solar PV array?

Students expand their understanding of the design principles of efficient solar energy systems. To begin, students examine a photograph of a school and suggest the optimal position for a proposed rooftop solar array. Students use their suggestions to identify and explore the three factors that deter…
Subjects: Science
Grades: 10, 11, 12
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Effects of WWI internment for Ukrainians

This set of primary and secondary sources includes government documents, interviews, newspaper articles and letters-to-the-editor, and a diary of historical fiction that describe the effects of World War I internment on Ukrainian internees, their families and the wider Ukrainian-Canadian community. …
Subjects: Social Studies, History
Grades: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
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Guide to Student Success: Supported Opinion Essay

Guides to Student Success offer a learner-centred alternative to traditional rubrics and support deep learning and nurture reflective learning and persistence. This resource is suitable for use in online learning with grades 8-12, can be used when supporting students in developing thesis driven pape…
Subjects: English/Language Arts
Grades: 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
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Leadership Lessons from Ecosystems

Usha James and Warren Woytuck examine how adopting a critical inquiry stance together with an ecosystem metaphor can support leaders in disrupting deficit-mindedness, siloed thinking, and short-term solutions. Drawing on examples from ecosystem science, Indigenous knowledge, and leadership experienc…
Subjects: Not Subject Specific
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
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