Jan2014_k_2

=K-2 Curriculum Inquiry Projects - Jan-April 2014=

Post a summary for each inquiry project.

 * Teacher Librarian -L. Walters**
 * Attach Planning** **Template** **:**[[file:JLA grade 1 and 2 life science.docx]]

(Drives instruction for the whole unit) || ** How do my animal’s needs, **** behavior and growth compare to my own ** || .................................................................................... ||
 * Project Title || Needs/Characteristics/Lifecyclesd of Living Things ||
 * School / Teacher Name || JLA / C. Pender ||
 * Grade Level || 1/2 ||
 * Subject Area || Science ||
 * Essential Question
 * Assessment Tools: (i.e Rubric) || Co - constructed rubric/checklist ||
 * Other Supporting Documents ||  ||
 * Culminating Project || Voicethread or Video of Diorama Interview ||
 * Link to Project Blog || .......................................
 * [|http://mrspenderjla.edublogs.org]**

**Teacher Librarian - A.L. Robbins Jakes**
(Drives instruction for the whole unit) || If the moon disappeared from the sky, what would be impacted the most? || opinion with supporting details about the impact of the sudden absence of our moon. Will be shared as a news release, recorded in a video. Followed up at school with a Showcase of Learning "Moon Party" with family and guests to share project activities, snacks and discoveries! ||
 * Attach Planning** **Template** **: [[file:Hills updated inquiry template.docx]] [[image:DSCN4082.JPG width="322" height="227"]]**
 * Project Title || Meeting the Moon ||
 * School / Teacher Name || Queen Elizabeth - Karen Hills ||
 * Grade Level || Grade One ||
 * Subject Area || Thematic Unit - Science/Social Studies/ELA/Arts Ed/Health ||
 * Essential Question
 * Assessment Tools: (i.e Rubric) ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Other Supporting Documents || [[file:Gr.One Inquiry Project Topics .docx]][[image:DSCN4081.JPG width="240" height="180"]] ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Culminating Project || Students will dress up as a reporters, and subjects and present his/her
 * Link to Teacher or Classroom Blog || ........................................................................................................................... ||
 * Link to Teacher-Librarian's Blog ||  ||

Attach Planning Template :** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(Drives instruction for the whole unit) || How do I learn? ||
 * Teacher Librarian -K.Smith**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Project Title || Mind Matters ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">School / Teacher Name || Fairhaven / Kelly Stoddart ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Grade Level || Pre-K ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject Area || Social Emotional Development and ELE ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Essential Question
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Assessment Tools: (i.e Rubric) ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Other Supporting Documents || MindUp curriculum Pre-K Play and Exploration ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Culminating Project ||  ||
 * Link to Teacher or Classroom Blog || ........................................................................................................................... ||
 * Link to Teacher-Librarian's Blog ||  ||

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(Drives instruction for the whole unit) || **How do communities meet the needs and wants of its members?** ||
 * Teacher Librarian - Greg Wihak**
 * Attach Planning** **Template** **: [[file:Prince Philip Inquiry Project Planning Guide 2014.docx]]**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Project Title || Community Comparisons ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">School / Teacher Name || Prince Philip/Jennifer Olson ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Grade Level || 2/3 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject Area || Social Studies/ELA ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Essential Question
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Assessment Tools: (i.e Rubric) || Concept check, Venn diagram, anecdotal records, rubric ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Other Supporting Documents ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Culminating Project || Student videos about school/Common Craft style video ||
 * Link to Teacher or Classroom Blog || ........................................................................................................................... ||
 * Link to Teacher-Librarian's Blog ||  ||

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(Drives instruction for the whole unit) || How does First Nations ways of knowing help our understanding of observable animal characteristics, behaviors and life cycle? ||
 * Teacher Librarian - Jan Harrison**
 * Attach Planning** **Template** **:[[file:inquiry 2014.docx]]**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Project Title || Animals of Saskatchewan ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">School / Teacher Name || Caswell-Sandi Harper Brownell-Debbie Andrie ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Grade Level || 1 and 2 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject Area || Science ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Essential Question
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Assessment Tools: (i.e Rubric) || Medicine wheel, anecdotal records, rubric ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Other Supporting Documents || The Sacred Tree ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Culminating Project || Comic Life or Pixie ||
 * Link to Teacher or Classroom Blog || ........................................................................................................................... ||
 * Link to Teacher-Librarian's Blog ||  ||

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(Drives instruction for the whole unit) || How do worms help us? ||
 * Teacher Librarian - Erika Bakker**
 * Attach Planning** **Template** **:[[file:HOW DO WORMS HELP US -student booklet-Feb6.docx]]**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Project Title || How do worms help us? ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">School / Teacher Name || Tammy Booth-Peterson ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Grade Level || gr.2 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject Area || Science ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Essential Question
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Assessment Tools: (i.e Rubric) || Student made rubric ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Other Supporting Documents || Student work book (attached above) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Culminating Project || Individual Vermi-compost pails, school wide assembly on composting ||
 * Link to Teacher or Classroom Blog || ........................................................................................................................... ||
 * Link to Teacher-Librarian's Blog ||  ||

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(Drives instruction for the whole unit) || What does it mean to be a family? ||
 * Teacher Librarian -Kristen Smith**
 * Attach Planning** **Template** **:[[image:IMG_0908.JPG width="175" height="98"]]**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Project Title || Modern Family ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">School / Teacher Name || WPBate -Cindy Frerichs ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Grade || Level 1 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject Area || LA/ss ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Essential Question
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Assessment Tools: (i.e Rubric) || ruberic writing continumm self reflection ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Other Supporting Documents ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Culminating Project || inquiry wall ||
 * Link to Teacher or Classroom Blog || ........................................................................................................................... ||
 * Link to Teacher-Librarian's Blog ||  ||

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(Drives instruction for the whole unit) || What makes a place a home? ||
 * Teacher Librarian - Ruth Elliott**
 * Attach Planning** **Template** **:**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Project Title || A Place to Call Home ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">School / Teacher Name || Helen Generoux, King George ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Grade Level || Grade 2 & 3 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject Area || Social Studies ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Essential Question
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Assessment Tools: (i.e Rubric) ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Other Supporting Documents ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Culminating Project ||  ||
 * Link to Teacher or Classroom Blog || ........................................................................................................................... ||
 * Link to Teacher-Librarian's Blog ||  ||

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(Drives instruction for the whole unit) || How are animals important to us? || Students will design their own animal with adaptations/features that are helpful to humans ||
 * Teacher Librarian -** **Karen Routley**
 * Attach Planning** **Template** **:**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Project Title || How are animals important to us? ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">School / Teacher Name || River Heights/Kathy Kruger ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Grade Level || 1 French Immersion ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject Area || science/francais ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Essential Question
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Assessment Tools: (i.e Rubric) || rubric: using vocabulary, classification skills ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Other Supporting Documents || mind-maps, schemas to organize animals' features ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Culminating Project || In groups, students will organize a slideshare explaining how certain animals help us.
 * Link to Teacher or Classroom Blog || ........................................................................................................................... ||
 * Link to Teacher-Librarian's Blog ||  ||

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(Drives instruction for the whole unit) || What are some interesting facts about what animals look like, what they eat, how they live, where they live? ||
 * Teacher Librarian - Audrey MacDonald**
 * Attach Planning** **Template** **:**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Project Title || animals ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">School / Teacher Name || Montgomery School/Joan Gryschuk ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Grade Level || Grade 1 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject Area || language arts/science ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Essential Question
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Assessment Tools: (i.e Rubric) || formulating 4 - 5 sentences; graphic organizer always in use; ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Other Supporting Documents ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Culminating Project || ongoing learning ||
 * Link to Teacher or Classroom Blog || ........................................................................................................................... ||
 * Link to Teacher-Librarian's Blog ||  ||


 * Teacher Librarian - L. Hnatiuk**
 * Attach Planning** **Template** **:**[[file:Clark Inquiry Template.docx]]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(Drives instruction for the whole unit) || How Do My Senses Help Me Learn || .............................................................................. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Project Title || Five Senses ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">School / Teacher Name || Forest Grove Mrs. Laurel Clark ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Grade Level || 1 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject Area || Science ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Essential Question
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Assessment Tools: (i.e Rubric) || Co - constructed rubric/checklist ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Other Supporting Documents ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Culminating Project || Educreation of How Senses Help us Learn ||
 * Link to Teacher or Classroom Blog || .......................................... http://laurelclark.blogspot.ca/
 * Link to Teacher-Librarian's Blog || Google Doc planning area [] ||

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(Drives instruction for the whole unit) || Why would a family choose to live in the community of Saskatoon? || []....................................................................... ||
 * Teacher Librarian - Denise Rossmo-Wiegers**
 * Attach Planning** **Template:[[file:Roland Michener template Downey.docx]]**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Project Title || Communities ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">School / Teacher Name || Roland Michener / Brianne Downey ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Grade Level || grades 1 / 2 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject Area || Social Studies ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Essential Question
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Assessment Tools: (i.e Rubric) ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Other Supporting Documents || [[file:downeyUNITPLAN (2).docx]][[image:abbas.jpg width="303" height="226"]][[image:carter.jpg width="320" height="240"]] ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Culminating Project || Students will blog about what they have learned. ||
 * Link to Teacher or Classroom Blog || ..................................................
 * Link to Teacher-Librarian's Blog ||  ||