School and Work Experience Projects
Land Acknowledgement
Grade 6 Unit Plan:
What Makes Good Citizens?
Throughout the ‘What Makes a Good Citizen?’ unit, students will explore the complex meaning of citizenship in Canada. Students will analyze and demonstrate what good citizenship looks like by working towards actively participating by writing a letter to an elected official of their choice about a social issue they are concerned about. Throughout this unit, students will explore and demonstrate what a good citizen is, how we can be good citizens, what outside forces affect and define what good citizenship means, how good citizens ensure their voice is heard, and how good citizens to influence decision-making. This unit will be combined with the PE & Wellness unit: “What does a good citizen look like in healthy relationships.”
Grade 6 PE & Wellness Unit Plan
"What does a good citizen look like in healthy relationships?"
Being a good citizen is important in forming a strong community. Throughout this PE & Wellness unit, students will explore what citizenship looks like in healthy relationships through the use of empathy and diverse perspectives. Within this unit, students will explore and demonstrate empathy as a value of good citizenship through the lens of Indigenous knowledge, diverse perspectives across Canada, drama, visual arts, and mathematics. Together, we will work towards a drama presentation surrounding empathy that will be presented to parents through a Student Conference/Parent Presentation Night. This unit will work in tandem with their Social Studies unit: “What Makes a Good Citizen?” by weaving lessons together and exploring both topics cross-curricularly.
Coordinate Geometry Unit Plan
Coordinate geometry lives all around us. Within this six-week unit, grade 6 students will explore how coordinate geometry lives in our world through games, mapping, treasure hunts, Indigenous beading, dance, and visual arts. Together, students will grow their knowledge of coordinate geometry and work towards creating an art gallery with their art tessellation piece, beadwork, and a brief description of their art displayed.
Grade 3 Social Studies:
Global Citizenship Unit
This unit photo essay integrates the curriculum of grade 3 global citizenship and real world events, of the Ukraine/Russia war to create a living discipline. Within this unit, students can develop a sense of responsibility, empathy, and a deeper understanding of the world around them. This approach encourages them to become informed and active global citizens from a young age.
What's the Matter? Unit Plan
Chemistry is all around us. It’s in the food we eat, the air we breathe, and everything you can see and touch. In this ‘What’s the Matter?’ unit, grade 5 students will work towards a science fair project where they explore and demonstrate their knowledge of solids, liquids, and gasses through experimentation. Together we will explore and recognize what dissolves, what reacts, and what remains unaffected. Students will have hands-on experiences of creating chemical reactions, producing carbon dioxide gas and growing crystals from mixtures of solids and liquids.
Who Are We From? Unit Plan
Every family has a history. Every family has a unique story of where they came from and how their language, customs and traditions have shaped their lives. In Canada, we have a multicultural nation that incorporates the influences of Indigenous, Francophone, and a cultural mosaic of groups from various Nations into the communities we live in today. In this unit plan, students will explore how the past of their family and the past of other groups in our community have influenced how they belong in their community in the present.
ELA & Fine Arts Unit Plan
Language is one of the most important ways we can communicate and understand those around us and our world. Being able to work together and build our communication and collaboration skills allows us to solve problems we may encounter. In the “It’s a Mystery” unit students will challenge their oral language skills alongside movies, books, problem solving scenarios and acting to create understanding and represent knowledge. As a class we will build towards engaging in the creation of student written mystery audiobooks, and collaborating to perform their stories.
Trauma-Informed Education Presentation
Throughout my final semester, I became extremely interested in trauma-informed education practices. During this time I had the opportunity to research into the topic, develop a presentation that I did for my cohort, a personal inquiry, and an RTI model for an anonymous student in my previous practicum, all based around trauma-informed practices. Please click the buttons below to view these links.
Which TQS points my school work hits
1. Fostering Effective Relationships
2. Engaging in Career-Long Learning
3.Demonstrating a Professional Body of Knowledge
4.Establishing Inclusive Learning Environments
5. Applying Foundational Knowledge about First Nations, Métis and Inuit
6.Adhering to Legal Frameworks and Policies