David Scott and Jason Publack ~ Grade 9 Humanities Over the last few years there has been increasing talk within educational circles around the potential of the flipped classroom to enhance learning. Historically, and this is confirmed by a great deal of research, classrooms have been places where students spend a great deal of their… Continue reading Student Insights into the Educational Potential of the Flipped Classroom
Jaime Groeller & Ivy WaiteIn August 2012, at the beginning of our second year teaching together, Ivy and I took the plunge and started “team teaching.” We had seen a successful example just down the stairs from us (Park/Bailey) and modeled much of our initial approach on those ideas. Furthermore, we had been doing a… Continue reading Team Teaching – Our Vision
Student Guest Bloggers from grade 9 As a way to create an audience for their work, recently the grade 9 classes have begun blogging. As part of this process, students were asked to recount an experience they had during their week long adventure at Bamfield Marine Centre on the west coast of Vancouver Island. Here… Continue reading Student Blogs "The Bamfield Diaries"
-by Jody Pereverzoff and Dan McWilliam, Grade 7 Humanities In the final inquiry for the year, students examined significant themes in Canadian history by studying specific events, people, and places that have had an impact on the development of Canada. Students, using one of the major themes, created a monument or structure using Augmented Reality… Continue reading Significant Historical Events using Capzles and Augmented Reality
-by Dave Scott, Grade 8 Humanities This year one of the goals of the Grade 8 team was to undertake an interdisciplinary unit that brought together the four core subject areas of math, science, language arts, and social studies. With the aid of Erin Couillard, PD and outreach coordinator, after an afternoon planning session seeking… Continue reading Thoughts and Viruses Interdisciplinary Inquiry Unit
–Jody Pereverzoff grade 7 Humanities After reading Lisa Nelson’s blog on using ShowMe in the Math class, I thought it would be a successful tool for students to demonstrate their understanding of editorial cartoons. Students first read the short story “Back to our Roots” by Fernando Sorrentino (translated from Spanish by Iris Maria Mielonen) and… Continue reading Using ShowMe in the Humanities Classroom
-by Dave Scott, Grade 8 Humanities Recently grade 8 Humanities students finished an inquiry unit that brought together an independent novel study with the creation of their own magazine. For this project students were asked to select a novel of their choice and work through a series of four writing assignments listed below. Each writing… Continue reading Grade 8 Magazine Project
By Ivy Waite, grade 9 Humanities This novel inquiry is housed online at The Scorpion Project. As students are sharing their work through blogger, building the project there as well allows us to model the use of technology that we expect to see. Novel studies are supposed to be about connecting with literature. They are… Continue reading The Scorpion Project: Novel Inquiry in Progress
Dan McWilliam – Grade 7 Humanities Augmented Reality is the digital layering of information overtop of, or in front of, the real world. This content is viewable through a digital device that places it realtime over the real world through the camera. Imagine a pair of eye glasses that could show the Facebook status or… Continue reading Aurasma: Augmented Reality in the Classroom
-By Dan McWilliam and Jody Pereverzoff, Grade 7 HumanitiesWe were looking for a way for our students to make a connection with life in early Canada. After reading the Real time WWII Twitter, we realized this would be an effective way to bridge modern communication with the Canadian immigrant experiences Pre Confederation. Students would assume… Continue reading Real Time Settlement
