2006 FORUM FILES (The following links will bring up the files or slideshow from the 2006 Forum)
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Northwestern Ontario Forum: Thunder bay Mtg 2005
At the Literacy and Numeracy training in Thunder Bay in
September, one teacher indicated she was always in need of unit plans. We all
have that problem, too many things to do and not enough time to do it all. A
solution was presented; lets share units.
Great Idea!!!
To encourage sharing of lessons and units developed; we are posting information
on some lessons, which have been used, and providing web sites to access other
lessons or units.
For Language Arts, the teacher, elder, tells oral stories in the classroom and
children are given a writing assignment on what they heard.
Math, Language Arts, Social Studies
The students are also doing community research by videotaping and the children
will develop a scale model of their community. This incorporates, math, language
arts and social studies. If you wish further information on the above, please
contact Cheryl Wynne at cwynne@jam21.net.
The following lesson plan can be found on this web site
http://lessonplanz.com/
Nouns
Grade Level: First Grade
Submitted by: Jeanette Delgado, First and Second Grade English Teacher
Objective:
The students will be able to classify nouns for people, places and things.
Materials:
Book: The Little Band
Author: James Sage
Illustrator: Keiko Narahashi
Activity:
Read the story.
Identify all the nouns that they recall from the story.
Write the nouns on the board.
Classify them as people, places and things
Additional Comments:
It is a beautiful book and they really enjoyed it.
Here are some links to assist you with lesson planning and information. If you
are aware of any other links or resources, please contact us so the
links/resources can be posted.
http://www.education-world.com/,
http://www.in2edu.com/index.html,
http://canadaonline.about.com/,
http://www.aplusmath.com/games/,
We are all interested in lessons and units that are fun, inspiring and
educational for students. You are invited to share units with one another. If
you already have it on computer, and are wiling to share, please do so. If you
only have hard copies, post the title, grade, core areas covered with contact
information so we can search you out.
An example on the benefits of talking, sharing and collaborating are
demonstrated.
At the September conference in Thunder Bay, the participants were made aware of
a northern school with minimal book resources. Within 5 minutes of the
presentation, administrators of another school offered to give box loads of
books to the school. The books needed to be shipped and within 24 hours, we
learned that another party was accessing money from a church legion to cover the
shipping costs.
Lesson: Tell each other what we need to help children and it may come to you.
2004 FORUM FILES (The following links will bring up the files or slideshow from the 2004 Forum "Making Aboriginal Students Visible"
- Invitation Pkg 2004
- Invitees
- Recommendations from Northwest Ontario Forum on Aboriginal Students
- Visibility and Achievement - group discussion
- Issues and Possible Solutions
- NNED (slide show)
- NOEL Oral Language Project 1 (Slide show)
- Rainy River Literacy Project (Slide Show)
