Games from BEAM for students in grades K-6 to help develop fact fluency and number sense.
Find Speaking Our Truth – A Journey of Reconciliation by Monique Gray Smith on Destiny. Also available in literature circle sets. A fantastic read on Canada’s relationship with Indigenous People
Resources and ideas for ELL specialists. MiddleWeb Empowering ELL
Private parts, public/private, safe/unsafe/secret touch, assertiveness skills, body safety rules
Instructions: After watching the video clip. engage in a what did I used to think what do I think now activity.
Instructions: After watching the video, engage in the explanation game: Why is Mr. Indifferent showing kindness to others? Why did it happen that way?
Instructions: Students will complete the following steps in pairs, groups, or as a whole class. Claim: What is this video about? Support: What did you see and feel that makes
Instructions: After watching the video clip, engage in the what makes you say that activity?
Instructions: After watching the video clip, engage in the chalk talk visible thinking activity.
After watching the video clip, engage in a conversation: How are you different? How are you unique
Instructions: After watching the video clip, engage in the step inside activity. What does Spencer know about, understand, or believe? What might Spencer care about or wish would happen?
Instructions: After watching the video clip, engage in the I used to think but now I think activity.
Instructions: After watching the video clip, engage in the compass points activity: E = Excited What excites you about this idea or proposition? W = Worrisome What do you find
Instructions: After watching the video clip, engage in the color-symbol-routine activity. Ask students: What colour do you think of when you think about the video? What is a symbol that
Instructions: After watching the video clip, engage in the connect-extend challenge.
Instructions: After watching the clip, engage in a class conversation asking the questions what do you notice? What do you wonder? What are the benefits for employees? What are the
After watching the video think about, and share on, the following: What do you see? What do you think about that? What does it make you wonder?
Instructions: Watch the clip and share sentences from the sentence stems “I used to think” and “Now I think”
Environmental themed lesson plans (k-12) to promote personal and social responsibility Earth Week lesson ideas Pedagogical resources for transforming classes into eco-classrooms Lessons around reducing food waste Climate change lesson
RDN Curbside App City of Nanaimo App Recycle City Game
What can and can’t be recycled in BC? Circular Economies Educational Information Tips for Going Zero Waste How to Run a Waste Audit at Your School Understanding Zero Waste According
Choral counting is intended to support students in making sense of increasing and decreasing patterns in cardinal numbers. The teacher leads children to count aloud together by a given number.
The Island Numeracy Assessment is a formative assessment tool that can be used flexibly to meet the needs of your students. Here are some ideas of how the assessment could
First Peoples Principles of Learning Poster First People Principles of Learning Poster – French Weaving Aboriginal Understandings in your Classroom – NLPS Document
Exemplar unit plans created by NLPS teachers – digital versions
A compilation of K-12 lessons curated by NLPS Teacher Librarians
School guide to enroll and activate students’ Learn68 accounts
Learn how to get started with Read&Write for Google, access resources and strategies to embed RW in your learning activities, and find out the steps to use it with PDF
Form to be filled out when a student transfers from one school to another.
Personal and impromptu writing Story writing
The Traits Writing™ program is organized as a spiraled sequence of the traits that align with the BC performance standards. Key qualities define the traits in detail and give you concrete
Daily 5 is a literacy framework that instills behaviors of independence, creates a classroom of highly engaged readers, writers, and learners, and provides teachers with the time and structure to meet
Classwide Intervention Implementation Process PRESS Infographic PRESS Online Login instruction Planning and Implementing Tier 2 Flowchart
Reading Comprehension Decoding/Word Recognition Fluency Phonological Awareness Vocabulary
Évaluations du Island Numeracy Network pour la fin de la 3e année et le début de la 4e année qui couvrent les concepts vus de la maternelle la 3e année.
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