One of the wonderful educational tools that recent technology affords is digital storytelling. Applicable in a wide variety of subject areas and curriculum connections, digital storytelling provides a medium for students to demonstrate their understanding in rich ways through the act of combining of images, text, and sounds. This grade 8 example was completed for… Continue reading Digital Storytelling: Student Exemplar
Our inquiry book study has made it to week three! Be sure to check out the conversations still happening on weeks one and two. Thanks to Allison Home for this weeks great blog post – as always – please share your thoughts and comments below! Chapter Three: Work on the Hard Parts Allison Hone is… Continue reading Inquiry Book Study: Week Three
Welcome to week two of our inquiry book study! This week we’re looking at Chapter Two from “Making Learning Whole” by David Perkins. A huge thanks to Yvonne Denomy for being the guest blogger for this week! She’s written an amazing post… For those who missed it, you can listen to last week’s webinar by… Continue reading Inquiry Book Study: Week Two
One of the key elements of inquiry-based learning at the Calgary Science School is embedding student work into authentic contexts. Our teachers spend a great deal of time designing work that bridges the program of studies and the ‘real world.’ This notion comes to us from our work with the Galileo Educational Network and their… Continue reading Authentic Contexts for Learning
Welcome to the first post of the CSS Inquiry Book Series! This series is free to open to anyone wanting to join in on our discussion of the book “Making Learning Whole” by David Perkins. You can get the back story on the series here. The format of this series is a new post every… Continue reading Inquiry Book Study: Week One!
The Calgary Science School is starting an Innovation and Education “think tank” discussion series. This initiative is designed to get a range of educational stakeholders together to discuss emerging ideas and possibilities in education, particularly around different technologies and their implication for the classroom. We have planned our first “Innovation in Education” event for Wednesday,… Continue reading Innovation in Education Discussion Series
We’re starting a new program – and a way for you to get involved! The Calgary Science School “Connect Through Books” is an online book discussion series – focusing on books that discuss inquiry-based approaches to learning and teaching. The book study will be conducted through this Calgary Science School Connect! Blog. Starting on February… Continue reading "Connect through books": Inquiry Book Study
Our grade 6 students have recently finished wrestling with the math problem: “Are there enough trees in Canada’s Boreal Forest to be the lungs of the earth?” The question came from research that one of the Grade 6 teachers, Erin Couillard, found which stated that the northern boreal forest now produces more oxygen than any… Continue reading Boreal Math: Final Thoughts
Over the last number of years, our grade 9 students have participated in a project called Canada: Your Story is My Story. This project involves students interviewing recent immigrants to Canada with the purpose of better understanding the immigration experience. After meeting and interviewing new Canadians, the students create multi-media narratives of the immigration stories… Continue reading Exploring Immigration: A Student Perspective
One of our staff, Neil Stephenson, is presenting two sessions at the CARC “Leading and Learning” conference. He’s presenting two sessions: (1) Engaging Teaching and Learning at the Calgary Science School and (2) Leading Teacher Change in a Technology Rich School. Here’s the materials being used in the two sessions: Link to the Galileo Inquiry… Continue reading Leading and Learning 2010 Resources
