Art Canada Institute: Teacher Resources
The Art Canada Institute (ACI), is a not-for-profit charity and educational organization based at Massey College at the University of Toronto. In collaboration with Canadian teachers and cultural advisors, they have developed over 40 Teacher Resources Guides, available for free in both English and French, to enable K-12 educators to teach cross-curricular subjects through art. Developed […]
Unit Planning: one teacher’s approach
Guest post by Ariane faria-dos santos, Peer Mentor, PHD student EDCP 2022 The BC curriculum presents some challenges for teachers to plan because it requires that teachers combine Big Ideas, Contents, and Competencies. The purpose is to create clear goals which will guide teachers to design assessments and activities to develop concepts and skills in […]
Honing Pattern Recognition Skills through Dance
Teaching dance steps can be an effective and engaging way to demonstrate and explain the concept of pattern recognition. Pattern recognition is one aspect of computational thinking and is integral to the Applied Design Skills and Technologies Curriculum (ADST BC Curriculum). It is useful in fields such as: mathematics; computer science (programming and machine learning); […]
Upcycling and Repurposed / Recycled Art
Planning lessons and units on the basis of a theme or concept helps teachers to adapt a more interdisciplinary approach. This enables students to understand the chosen theme or concept through different disciplinary lenses. For instance, within the broader concept of environmental sustainability, students might study Math in order to “understand extremely small numbers… which […]
Google Tour Creator
NOTE: As of June 2021, Google Tour Creator is being discontinued (and this post and accompanying video resources will be archived/removed. Until June 30, 2021, you will still be able to use Tour Creator. Any tours you publish, either unlisted or publicly, will be available at poly.google.com/creator/tours until June 30, 2021. In the coming months, […]
