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This is an exciting learning task whereby students get the opportunity to design their own shoe and then create a media plan to market it. It combines curriculum expectations from both Art & Media Literacy. A variety of options are given to the students in terms of Art and Media forums that they can create with. I addition, I have added assessment rubrics to go along with the engaging assignment sheet! Create! Create! Create! Created by Ryan Richards Copyright © 2013 Ryan Richards All rights r

I wanted to build an authentic learning experience for the beginning of the year and ended up developing this unit which engages students in an inquiry where they explore the various aspects of their personal identity. Based on the depth of the inquiry, this unit would richly benefit student learning at any part of your school year. This is part 2 that includes lessons 4 - 10 and the corresponding graphic organizers and resources. Students will continue their exploration of expectations in Lang

This is a fun list of "Most Likely To" awards that I used at the end of the year to engage my students and have them reflect on the school year as well as their peers. We all had fun!

This is a graphic organizer that I use to build accountability into the critical discussions that my students have. They are responsible to report back critical ideas that they heard and that they offered. As well, the organizer guides them to self reflect on speaking and listening skills that they used, as well as receiving both a self and peer evaluation of their contribution to the group. I am including an anchor chart/handout of listening strategies that I teach my students and I have an anc

I wanted to build an authentic learning experience for the beginning of the year and ended up developing this unit which engages students in an inquiry where they explore the various aspects of their personal identity. Based on the depth of the inquiry, this unit would richly benefit student learning at any part of your school year. This is part 1 that includes the first 3 lessons in the unit. Students will be engage in learning covering expectations in Language, Drama, and Art. Over the course

I am very proud of this learning unit! It encompasses learning expectations for a variety of grades and curriculum areas including: History, Language, Geography, Mathematics, and Art. In this unit, I've designed a variety of learning that lead the students through the research and analysis of existing countries, the creation of their own world (where they emerge as world leaders), and finally culminating in the World Trade Simulation. This file contains the assignment sheet and description of le

In this unit, students are guided to inquire on the idea of Growth Mindsets and how they impact their lives and goal setting experiences. This unit has 6 lessons with corresponding graphic organizers. There are a variety of opportunities for assessment provided throughout this mini-unit. My objective for all of our students is that there will be an observable change in the way that our young people see their ability to fulfill their own high expectations. As a bonus, I have also add a list of s

This learning task allows students to research a geographic region considering a number of geographical patterns, and then use that knowledge to create a survival kit in the scenario that they faced an emergency situation in that region. This is a creative and fun way for the students to show what they've learned about different regions around the world! Created by Ryan Richards Copyright © 2013 Ryan Richards All rights reserved by author. Permission to copy for single classroom use only. Elec

This mini unit is an engaging way for your class to explore different perspectives on critical thinking and group dynamics. Multi media is used in the introduction to guide the students towards an understanding of different ways of thinking about a "critical issue." The 6 Hats Theory is introduced to the students and they are led through a series of activities where they need to make critical decisions. Students are offered a variety of ways to show what they know (that tap into multiple intell

This assignment will allow you to assess student understandings in Fractions, Percents, Ratios, & Data Management. Students are provided guided towards an interesting task related to creating their own preferred school schedule! The task itself is quite engaging and should provide a varied sample of results throughout your class. After representing their choices in different ways, students are lead to present their results and do some compare and contrast analysis. This is great for the kids as

This inquiry unit guides students through an exploration of the concept of "Happiness." Students will investigate through a variety of activities, their own conceptions of happiness, how it influences relationships with others and finally how it is measured on a global scale of sustainable well being. Within this unit, 12 lessons (some with multiple parts) are provided for you, using a 3 part framework and uniquely designed graphic organizers. Multiple opportunities for technological integratio

This was designed as both a personal inquiry and visual arts learning tasks. Students are guided to reflect on how they self identify, and then to use elements of Line, Color, and Space to design and produce a masks that visually represents that identity. A graphic organizer and student work samples are provide in addition to assessment success criteria that can all support students in the development of their own Personal Identity Mask. Please feel free to share your feedback! Be Great! C

This is an exciting learning task whereby students get the opportunity to transform the powerful words in their written poetry into a Spoken Word Media piece. Included here is the assignment sheet and the assessment checklist for you to use to evaluate your students. I guided my students to my classroom blog to review the samples that we looked at in class earlier in the term. Create! Create! Create! Created by Ryan Richards Copyright © 2014 Ryan Richards All rights reserved by author. Pe

This is an inquiry unit that allows students to explore current events through a critical lens. Specifically, students are guided through 9 learning experiences where they explore themes of RESISTANCE and RESILIENCE in the face of power inequities. The unit engages students with particular model social justice issues but guides students to explore others while engaging in reflective thought about their own resiliency and ability to be agents of change. The lessons themselves are fluid and op

In these Learning Tasks, students will be guided to inquire and reflect on their identity as math learners.Engaging lessons, complete with graphic organizers are provided so that you may learn with your students about how they see themselves as math students and more generally as learners. The platform is also set for Goal Setting and reflection on both student and teacher agency in contributing to students success. These tasks can be both an engaging learning experience for your learners at the

This Geography and Media Learning Task is an excellent "non test" evaluation that progresses along a balanced literacy path. Students are guided to create their own Learning Charts using the Geography content and a variety of media effects, which they will later use to teach others about their assigned topics. They are later able to create charts individually based on their interest so that they can show you what they've learned. Created by Ryan Richards Copyright © 2014 Ryan Richards All righ

These lesson activities guide student to think critically about the choices that they make with respect to musical artists to listen, and further to interrogate the messages that they are receiving. Students are challenged to see song lyrics as a construct purposed reflect the artist's identity and to possible to convey a reflection on so social issue. After critical reflection on underlying ideas that they've inferred from existing songs, students are guided to be composers of powerful messages

This learning task was designed as a cross-curricular activity to engage students in both Art and Media. My students engaged in designing a unique magazine cover that focused on combining the personas of two different social justice leaders from different eras. Students are provided the option of designing their covers in a simple program like word or by designing it by hand. Through this task, students are exposed to and guided to integrate essential elements of a Magazine Cover for the purpose

This Poetry Analysis Writing Guides provides students with a variety of critical thinking questions to guide students through a critical analysis of a poem. In addition a number of extension activities are provided to give students a variety of ways to show what they know. An assessment checklist is also provided in order to support our students with achieving their success! Created by Ryan Richards Copyright © 2013 Ryan Richards All rights reserved by author. Permission to copy for single cl

This mini-unit was designed for students to critically analyse a current media issue through a Social Justice lens. Students are challenged to explore themes of Inclusion, Bias, and Power while analyzing a controversial ad that was produced by Kellogg. Critical questions are provided to guide real and relevant student reflection about about social justice themes including modern day power dynamics. Students are then challenged to use what they've learned to produce their own media. Created b