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Communicative Practices
This resource package provides opportunities for learners to explore multiple languages, while fostering curiosity and engagement in their local communities.
- Kindergarten
- Grade 1
- Grade 2
Role of Landscape and Physical Environment
This lesson focuses on key issues involving treaty relationships in Canada by discussing historical and contemporary issues. Western perspectives over Indigenous perspectives are highlighted, fostering critical analysis. Reading and analyzing relevant documents, discussing resource documents and answering guiding questions promotes understanding of Indigenous experiences. By utilizing an old map alongside a contemporary political map, students will demonstrate the ability to identify and locate the provinces and territories encompassed by different Indigenous treaties, fostering an understanding of the historical and geographical context of these agreements.
- Grade 9
Policy of Assimilation: Indian Residential and Day Schools
First Nations Perspectives Modules are primarily designed to support teachers in implementing the Canadian Identity Grade 9 Social Studies Curriculum. Specifically, these modules provide an opportunity both to expand understandings of First Nations peoples’ experiences within the Atlantic Maritime region and to highlight First Nations’ rich history, culture, language, and knowledge. Students will have an opportunity to demonstrate understanding of First Nations history, culture, and the enduring impact of colonization and genocide in Canada.
- Grade 9
Canadian Indigenous Veterans: Crisis and Conflict
First Nations Perspectives Modules are primarily designed to support teachers in implementing the Canadian Identity Grade 9 Social Studies Curriculum. Specifically, these modules are an opportunity to both expand understandings of First Nations peoples’ experiences within the Atlantic Maritime region and to highlight First Nations’ rich history, culture, language, and knowledge. As a result, in utilizing these modules to enhance classroom practice, students will have an opportunity to demonstrate understanding of First Nations history, culture, and the enduring impact of colonization in Canada.
- Grade 9
Cybersecurity Series: Suspicious Files and Hidden Folders (Windows 10)
After this course, the student should be able to search for and identify suspicious files, including files within hidden folders. These self-paced online courses include learning content, small quiz questions throughout, as well as a virtual lab environment where students can “spin up” virtual computers (Windows 10/11, Linux, etc.) in their browser and complete assigned tasks in a real-world environment.
- Grade 6
- Grade 7
- Grade 8
- Grade 9
- Grade 10
- Grade 11
- Grade 12
Cybersecurity Series: Windows Hardening (Windows 10)
In this course, students will learn how to better protect a Windows computer system against basic threats and vulnerabilities by identifying security risks and applying standard hardening techniques. These self-paced online courses include learning content, small quiz questions throughout, as well as a virtual lab environment where students can “spin up” virtual computers (Windows 10/11, Linux, etc.) in their browser and complete assigned tasks in a real-world environment.
- Grade 9
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 9
- Grade 12
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