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Advertising All Around Us
This teaching unit helps students to become more aware of the language and techniques used in print advertising, as well as the impact of advertising on their daily lives. The unit will focus on three key media literacy concepts: construction of reality, representation, and audience.
- Grade 6
- Grade 7
- Grade 8
Challenging Confirmation Bias
Our brains are great at using past experiences to make quick decisions on the fly, but these shortcuts can also lead to bias. “Confirmation bias” is our brain’s tendency to seek out information that confirms things we already think we know. Help your students learn to recognize this when they encounter news online, as a way to examine competing opinions and ideas and to avoid drawing questionable conclusions.
- Grade 12
- Grade 9
Self-Paced E-Learning : Computer Hardware Basics
Computer Hardware Basics explores the fundamentals of computers and mobile devices, the components that comprise them, how they work, and basic troubleshooting tools and techniques.
- Grade 6
- Grade 7
- Grade 8
- Grade 9
Self-Paced E-Learning: Python Essentials 1
In this course, you will learn in-demand skills such as how to design, develop, and improve computer programs, methods for analyzing problems using programming, programming best practices, and more. The course also prepares you for the PCEP – Certified Entry-Level Python Programmer certification (Exam PCEP-30-0x).
- Grade 6
- Grade 7
- Grade 8
- Grade 9
Self-Paced E-Learning: Operating Systems Basics
Operating Systems Basics teaches the fundamentals of operating systems. It covers basic concepts and skills needed to understand the purpose and characteristics of operating systems, the implementation of basic OS security, and how to configure mobile device network connectivity and email.
- Grade 6
- Grade 7
- Grade 8
- Grade 9
Low-Tech TVs
In this inquiry-based and hands-on learning activity, students will be challenged to build a low-tech television, with recyclable materials, to animate their own daily commute to school. With inspiration from Grant Snider’s picture book, one boy watching, learners can visually experience what another peer notices and wonders on their way to school each day.
- Grade 3
- Grade 4
- Grade 5
How to Code a Sandcastle
Using kinetic sand and the picture book, How to Code a Sandcastle, learners will be planning, creating, and decorating a sandcastle in a series of building challenges. Using step-by-step instructions, critical thinking and digital literacy skills, students will gain an experience of what being a computer programmer is really like!
- Grade 3
- Grade 4
- Grade 5
My Social Media Life
This activity will assist students in identifying the role of social media in their lives. Secondly, to reflect on the positive and negative effects social media use has on their relationships. Finally, to help students recognize “red flag feelings” when using social media and use the Feelings & Options thinking routine to consider ways to handle them.
- Grade 6
- Grade 7
- Grade 8
Who Is In Your Online Community?
Students will compare and contrast how they are connected to different people and places, in person and on the internet. They will have the opportunity to demonstrate an understanding of how people can connect on the internet.
- Grade 1
- Grade 2
- Kindergarten
Digital Friendships
Students will compare and contrast the different kinds of online-only friendships. Describing the benefits and risks of these friendships, as well as learn how to respond to an online-only friend if they are asked something uncomfortable.
- Grade 3
- Grade 4
- Grade 5
Connecting with Digital Audiences
This activity will help students apply the idea of code-switching to how they use phones and other devices in and outside of school. As well, will help them consider different ways that code-switching online can make communication more meaningful and effective. Finally, will allow students the opportunity to put code-switching into practice, with the goal of communicating with an online audience.
- Grade 9
Butterfly Algorithms
This computational thinking activity aims to engage students in analyzing and understanding the life cycle of a butterfly using computational concepts and algorithms. By developing and applying conditionals within an algorithm, students will gain a deeper understanding of the butterfly’s life cycle and demonstrate their knowledge through the implementation and testing of a computer program.
- Grade 6