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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

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

Students have an excellent opportunity here to express what they've learned about the 7 Years War visually! Student's have as much fun creating their images as they do putting their cubes together. This product includes an evaluation rubric and a feedback sheet for students. Created by Ryan Richards Copyright © 2019 Ryan Richards All rights reserved by author. Permission to copy for single classroom use only. Electronic distribution limited to single classroom use only.

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 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 graphic organizer is based on the H.I.P.P.O model of categorizing threats to Biodiversity. Critical thinking questions are added to extend student thinking! Please feel free to share your feedback! Be Great! Created by Ryan Richards Copyright © 2016 Ryan Richards All rights reserved by author. Permission to copy for single classroom use only. Electronic distribution limited to single classroom use only.

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

I drafted this graphic organizer as a reflective piece for my students after we'd completed the modules of our iM Project ("inspire myself) on Gender Equity. This reflective piece leads students through an analysis of stereotypes that they are exposed to in their environment. Students are guided toward a reflection of media that they analyze and a real hard look at how they honestly respond to stereotypes and the part that they will play in creating change. I feel that this reflection piece

In this learning activity, students are guided to inquire about the depictions of critical social events in the movies in comparison to the reporting of that event in the news media. Students will have an opportunity to consider critical questions about who is telling the story and whose perspective is not being presented in either medium and why? Please feel free to share your feedback! Be Great!

My students enjoyed using this media organizer to explore and analyze both print and media ads. The organizer set a basis for critical discussions about how media is used to affect consumers. Created by Ryan Richards Copyright © 2013 Ryan Richards All rights reserved by author. Permission to copy for single classroom use only. Electronic distribution limited to single classroom use only.

Students have the opportunity to show what they've learned about the War of 1812. They will have fun creating a learning cube that explores the causes, results and key figures of the war. Created by Ryan Richards Copyright © 2013 Ryan Richards All rights reserved by author. Permission to copy for single classroom use only. Electronic distribution limited to single classroom use only.

This was an introductory activity for Canadian Communities that I used with my students as they started to explore the concepts of Personal and National identities. It provided the platform for a lot of critical discussion that followed. Please feel free to share your feedback! Be Great! Created by Ryan Richards Copyright © 2016 Ryan Richards All rights reserved by author. Permission to copy for single classroom use only. Electronic distribution limited to single classroom use only.

This Learning Task was designed to capitalize on student interest the game Among US. The learning explorations has been aligned to media literacy expectations focused on Target Audience; Media Techniques; and the intentional choices made producers of media in order to effectively engage audience for a purpose. This is a terrific opportunity to let creative juices of your students loose! Be great! Created by R. Richards Copyright © 2020 R. Richards

Are you concerned about the summer "Brain Drain?" The summer time is a great time for students to engage in STEM learning outside of the classroom! I've created this journal template as a way for students to keep track of challenges they are identifying around the house and taking steps to design innovative solutions. Students will have the opportunity to continue their engagement with Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics throughout the summer! I have built in a reflection piece so tha