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BC Coast Photos to Prompt Thinking

Posted on August 8, 2021March 15, 2022 By Amanda Younger No Comments on BC Coast Photos to Prompt Thinking
BC Coast Photos to Prompt Thinking

The photos above are personal and family photos that I use to engage students at the beginning of my Great Bear Rainforest and Salish Sea unit. I use two thinking routines with these images, “See, Think, Wonder” from Project Zero and “Observe, Wonder, Infer” from Reading Power. These images are unique set that my students…

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EXPLORING THE SALISH SEA AND GREAT BEAR RAINFOREST A Cross Curricular Unit

Posted on July 28, 2021January 29, 2022 By Amanda Younger No Comments on EXPLORING THE SALISH SEA AND GREAT BEAR RAINFOREST A Cross Curricular Unit
EXPLORING THE SALISH SEA AND GREAT BEAR RAINFOREST A Cross Curricular Unit

I have attached my template and my the beginning of my Salish Sea and Great Bear Rainforest unit. I typically only plan the first few detailed  lessons of an inquiry unit in advance as they are the ones I use to build curiosity and back ground knowledge before diving into the inquiry with my students…

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Who Was Single Point Rubric

Posted on July 28, 2021 By Amanda Younger No Comments on Who Was Single Point Rubric
Who Was Single Point Rubric

I have created a single point rubric using student friendly language for our Who HQ project. Who HQ is a grade wide project where each student picks a person featured in the Who Was book series and spends most of second term learning about them before we present our “living museum” where students dress up…

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Travelling the BC Coast GRASPS Assessment

Posted on July 28, 2021July 28, 2021 By Amanda Younger No Comments on Travelling the BC Coast GRASPS Assessment
Travelling the BC Coast GRASPS Assessment

This is something I would like to include in my BC Coast unit as something we would work on as part of our inquiry process getting to know the coast. I have included my teacher planning as well as what I would give to my students, typically with my class I would model the steps…

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The Seal Garden Questions

Posted on July 28, 2021 By Amanda Younger No Comments on The Seal Garden Questions
The Seal Garden Questions

I’ve also used the adaptation Brenda offered to do this task as my summer school program is not lending itself well to this assignment. I have chosen to look at a read aloud lesson I would typically do during my Salish Sea and Great Bear Rainforest. For the criteria and developing good questions I looked…

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Inquiry Unit Development Part 1

Posted on July 28, 2021 By Amanda Younger No Comments on Inquiry Unit Development Part 1
Inquiry Unit Development Part 1

I have chosen to look at refining my favourite unit on The Salish Sea and Great Bear Rainforest two unique ecosystems on the BC Coast. This is a unit that always brings me a lot of joy as my favourite places on the planet are found within the Salish Sea and Great Bear Rainforest. For…

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