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Showing posts with label inquiry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label inquiry. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 08, 2017

Governor General Award

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This week, the recipients of the 2017 Governor General's History Awards were announced, and I am humbled and thrilled to be counted amo...
Thursday, January 12, 2017

Skookum Stories 2017

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Wow.  We are a few days into "Skookum Stories" -- heritage inquiry for Grade 9 Social Studies students. I have provided a summar...
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Monday, September 28, 2015

The new curriculum

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BC is part way through a "transformation of the education system" which has, at its heart, curriculum revisions throughout K-12....
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Friday, September 26, 2014

AESN Case Study

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Network of Inqiury and Innovation Aboriginal Enhancement Schools Network grant - project summary School: D.P. Todd Secondary Dis...
Sunday, October 06, 2013

Professional Development has changed

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Professional Development (PD) has changed in the last 15 years. For those of you who taught in the 80s and 90s, think back to a time be...
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Monday, September 30, 2013

And now for something completely different

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This September has been the most unique for me in at least a decade. I've jumped into an inquiry-based, blended learning program d...
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Wednesday, November 07, 2012

Making Connections to Traditional Knowledge

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My Social Studies 9 class has been working on a project off and on over the last few weeks -- an exploration of Heritage Skills . We do ...
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Monday, November 05, 2012

staff mtg course presentation

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Language landscape staff presentation from thielmann It's official... time to let my staff know where this is going. What s...
Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Heritage Skills

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Part of the continuum of heritage projects at our schools in Social Studies 9-11 sees our students researching Heritage Skills in SS9 -- ...
Friday, October 19, 2012

Mumbleypeg

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Got about to some "mumbling of the peg" yesterday and today with some friends and fellow Social Studies teachers at our Pacific ...
Tuesday, October 02, 2012

Benchmarks of Geographic Thinking

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My sister planting trees in the Bowron Clearcut, 1986. Many geographic relationships and themes overlap in this image In what seems to ...
Sunday, June 10, 2012

Echo Project

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For a few years now at D.P. Todd Secondary we've been using a special "Echo Project" for Social Studies 11 to put student ...
Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Poutine Glaciation

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The end of a "geomorphology" unit in Geography 12 means one thing... the students have pulled out the stops and are unleashing t...
Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Weathered Stone

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As my students continue to make fabulous connections to their heritage and ask questions about what defines oneself, I find myself drifti...
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Friday, November 04, 2011

4 stories, 4 connected students

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What a great day to be a Social Studies teacher! I had two SS10 classes in the library today taking a 2nd, deeper look at what they could ...
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Wednesday, November 02, 2011

Cross Hairs

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I was reading a post on a former colleague's blog and my comment for him turned into a bit of a diatribe... perfect for a post here!!! ...
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Monday, December 15, 2008

Skookum Presentations!

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So, my two Social Studies 10 classes have been presenting "Heritage" projects for the last few days and I am "caught" (a...