Click the link below by clicking on the image, to view one of my favourite creative writing units I’ve developed! This creative non-fiction unit is a great way of starting the year by exploring story as it connects to self.
Category: Lesson Plans (Page 1 of 2)
Lesson and Unit Plans created in courses, practicums, or work experiences
Clicking on the first of these three images will take you to the full mini-unit I created to support our broader learning on healthy living when teaching grade 4/5. I have since adapted many of these lessons to work for high school careers as well.
When I began teaching, I wasn’t convinced I’d enjoy the careers curriculum. It has become one of my favourite courses to teach! What a joy to help kids understand their own values, aspirations, and opinions, and use that self-knowledge to guide their own futures. Here is a worksheet set I created for a unit I lead my grade 8-12 French Immersion careers class in, on identifying one’s values.
The cover page below will link you to a unit I created to teach the basics of harm reduction based substance use education in intermediate through high school classrooms. This unit is an alternative to the classic “just say no to drugs” units still offered in many schools, and is in keeping with both my ethics and the evidence on preventing deaths from toxic drug supply. The unit is just a starting place, and this is heavy content so teachers will need to be prepared to talk through the learning with students in a compassionate and patient way. Some of the questions my students had with this unit required that I slow down and work through their thinking with them. Additionally, this might be initially difficult for students to wrap their head around if they have spent many years surrounded by abstinence based substance use education, this was certainly my experience with the class this unit was created for. I am hopeful that this unit will be helpful to someone and am happy to answer any questions folks may have.
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The following unit is how I intend to start my year with my grade 4/5 students. It is an opportunity for them to share with me about who they are, their interests, their families, and set the tone for how they want me to see them. It is also a quick way for me to get a sample of their writing, get a sense of how comfortable they are with planning and revising, and identify students with creative strengths that can be nurtured throughout the year.
You may also click on the first photo to be linked to a copy of this unit.
I wanted to quickly share a list of Journal or Discussion Prompts I created for inclusion in a cross curricular unit planned for our Indigenous Education course in the second semester of my Bachelor of Education. The students can have this offered to them at the start of the day or the start of their lesson, and they may either journal or discuss one to one with a partner. This unit focuses on the sun, moon, and stars, and culminates with an outdoor ed camping trip. Anyone coming across this page is more than welcome to borrow some or all of these prompts with their students. The prompts include elements of the unit, social and emotional learning, and essential reflection on respectful and reflexive land based learning on unceded Indigenous territories. The prompts are as follows:
- Their weekend
- Something they saw outside recently
- Something the experienced recently that made them smile
- Something new they learned recently
- What do they find interesting about sun, moon, stars, and outer space
- Everything they can remember quickly from last week
- A book or story they enjoyed recently
- Something we’ve covered recently that they don’t understand yet
- What does it mean to be respectful on our camping trip (to people, place, and land)
- 3 stars and a wish for the camping trip (completed while waiting for the bus to leave)